Vol. 74/No. 10      March 15, 2010

During the 2003-2006 fight of the Co-Op coal miners in Utah for a union, Mailhot was one of the Militant’s lead writers on this fight. A coal miner himself at the time, Mailhot worked to build solidarity with the union fight and report on the activities of the miners and the United Mine Workers of America to win this struggle.

When the Co-Op mine owners turned to the courts to defeat the union by suing individual miners involved in the struggle, the union itself, and the Militant newspaper for its uncompromising coverage, Mailhot worked with others to organize the Militant Fighting Fund to turn back this boss assault. As a result of this nationwide campaign, and the steadfastness of the miners and the union, a judge dismissed the Co-Op mine owners’ suit in 2006.

In addition to Mailhot’s activity in the labor movement, he has assumed a number of national leadership responsibilities for the Socialist Workers Party since joining the party in 1974. He is member of the party’s national committee.

Sam Manuel, the Militant’s editor since 2008, and the paper’s Washington, D.C., correspondent for five years before that, has been released from the volunteer staff to concentrate on recovering his health after a medical condition sidelined him from day-to-day editorial responsibilities late last year. Manuel is now in Atlanta and working his way back toward full activity in the communist movement.  
 
 
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