The Cuban Revolution: An example for us today

Black liberation, workers’ stake in defending due process and how cops and courts serve capitalist rule
Vol. 85/No. 21 - May 31, 2021
Fidel Castro, left, addresses crowd in Colón, Cuba, Jan. 7, 1959, as Freedom Caravan crosses Cuba on way to Havana after overthrow of U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista. Cuba’s socialist revolution, along with struggle to bring down Jim Crow segregation, helped us “understand the kind of revolutionary transformation of ourselves necessary to defeat capitalist rulers,” said Mary-Alice Waters at Midwest Socialist Workers Party meeting April 24.

“Cuba and the Coming American Revolution: The 60th Anniversary of Two Historic Victories of the Cuban Revolution and Their Significance for Building a Revolutionary Party in the United States — Then and Now” was the featured talk at the Socialist…


Frito-Lay strikers angered by injury to temporary worker

Vol. 85/No. 21 - May 31, 2021

On the picket line at the Frito-Lay plant in Topeka, Kansas, May 12, members of Local 218 of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Union expressed anger over an injury to one of the temporary workers bosses recently…


Hundreds of coal miners protest in Ukraine over lack of pay

Vol. 85/No. 21 - May 31, 2021

Over 500 miners from state-owned coal mining operations in Donetsk, Volyn, Lviv and Luhansk protested at government offices in Kyiv May 12 over months of government nonpayment of wages. The main demands of the miners, the Independent Trade Union of…


15,000 Quebec teachers wage three-day strike

Vol. 85/No. 21 - May 31, 2021

SEPT-ILES, Quebec — Teachers, joined by staff members and students, picketed in front of the CEGEP school here on Quebec’s North Shore May 13. “An urgent need to act; public services to rebuild,” read the picket sign of one striker.…


Build solidarity with labor struggles!

Vol. 85/No. 21 - May 31, 2021

Statement by Malcolm Jarrett, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Pittsburgh mayor, May 19. “Our strength does come from our sticking together,” Dave McCall, international vice president of the United Steelworkers, told a May 15 rally of striking steelworkers and their…





‘They try to hide the news about fights workers wage from us’

Vol. 85/No. 20 - May 24, 2021
“My boss made me employee of the month,” Paul Stettler told Joanne Kuniansky, SWP candidate for New Jersey governor, on his doorstep May 6, “so I had to get this T-shirt.”

“I’ve been a union worker since I was 18,” Paul Stettler told Joanne Kuniansky, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New Jersey governor, when she and campaign supporter Terry Evans knocked on his door in Jersey City May 6. His uncle…


Steelworkers stand up to ATI union-busting attack

Vol. 85/No. 20 - May 24, 2021

WASHINGTON, Pa. — Over 1,300 United Steelworkers members are locked in a strike battle against union-busting bosses at Allegheny Technologies Inc. at nine plants in five states. The strikers on the picket lines are standing tall and winning solidarity from…