BROOKWOOD, Ala. — “We are one UMWA,” “No contract no coal,” and “United we stand UMWA” signs dot yards, showing support for the 1,100 members of the United Mine Workers of America on strike against Warrior Met Coal here since…
MINNEAPOLIS — Doug Nelson, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Minneapolis, and SWP campaign supporters have been fanning out, bringing solidarity to labor battles, speaking out against police brutality and exchanging views with workers on their doorsteps about the…
NEW YORK — The victory of the Cuban armed forces and volunteer militias against U.S.-trained and -equipped mercenaries at Playa Girón in April 1961 demonstrated “the determination of the Cuban people to defend the socialist revolution, whatever it took,” said…
The U.S. rulers’ 20-year-long war in Afghanistan will be brought to an end, promised President Joseph Biden, as had Donald Trump before him, halting a conflict Washington long ago gave up trying to win. Some 2,500 U.S. troops will leave…
WASHINGTON, Pa. — United Steelworkers union officials and Allegheny Technologies Inc. bosses returned to the bargaining table April 19 for the first in-person negotiations since 1,300 workers went on strike at nine ATI plants across the country March 30. The…
MINNEAPOLIS — A jury here convicted fired cop Derek Chauvin on all charges April 20 for the killing of George Floyd last May. After two days of deliberation the jury unanimously found Chauvin guilty of second- and third-degree murder and…
HALEY STATION, Ontario — “Our pay doesn’t even keep up to the cost of living,” Leonard Godin, president of United Steelworkers Local 4820 at Magellan Aerospace, told the Eganville Leader. Some 350 workers at Magellan’s casting foundry here have been…
May 6, 1996 In a move that restricts many democratic rights, president William Clinton signed a broad “antiterrorism” bill into law April 24. The legislation strengthens the government’s ability to arbitrarily ban or deport those it does not want to…
Cuban Ambassador to the UN, compañero Pedro Luis Pedroso Compañeros and compañeras of Cuba’s UN Mission Compañeros and compañeras of the Socialist Workers Party Friends of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and sister countries: My warmest greetings to all of you. I…
Statement by Gerardo Sánchez, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Dallas City Council, District 1, April 21. Millions of workers remain out of work today, facing mounting hardships and uncertainty and isolation from fellow workers on the job. That is the…
