Crimean Tatars protest Russian occupation, 1944 deportations

Vol. 85/No. 27 - July 12, 2021

Despite a brutally enforced ban by Moscow, which has occupied the Crimean Peninsula since 2014, Tatars did come out into the streets May 18 one by one. Many were holding signs commemorating the 77th anniversary of the mass deportation of…


App-based UK Bolt drivers strike to be paid as workers

Vol. 85/No. 27 - July 12, 2021
London protest at Bolt, app-based cab hailing company, by 100 members of App Drivers and Couriers Union June 22. They logged off, called for passenger boycott in 24-hour strike.

LONDON — Chanting “Enough is enough!” and “Driver power!” 100 members of the App Drivers and Couriers Union protested outside the London offices of the app-based Bolt cab hailing company here June 22. The action marked the start of a…


‘In US prison system, just going to trial earns you respect’

Vol. 85/No. 27 - July 12, 2021

  One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July is the French edition of  Voices from Prison: The Cuban Five. Fernando González, René González, Antonio Guerrero, Gerardo Hernández and Ramón Labañino were arrested on frame-up conspiracy charges by the…


Vale miners in Canada strike over boss attacks

Fight moves to axe retired workers’ health care
Vol. 85/No. 27 - July 12, 2021
Over 2,400 United Steelworkers union miners and other workers at Vale have been on strike in Sudbury since June 1. Sign reflects growing solidarity for the workers’ struggle.

SUDBURY, Ontario — “Everybody’s coming together more, including support from other unions — teachers, CUPE, Unifor and some government workers have come down,” Vale striker and United Steelworkers Local 6500 member Chris Banks told these Militant  worker-correspondents on the picket…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 85/No. 27 - July 12, 2021

July 22, 1996 CHICAGO — “Glad to see you here. These are great books. We’ve been carrying Pathfinder books in my store for some time and now the other stores in the chain have started ordering them,” said a book…


General Mills food workers in Australia strike, win pay raise

Vol. 85/No. 27 - July 12, 2021

SYDNEY — “We won!” read placards outside international food monopoly General Mills factory in Rooty Hill, Western Sydney, June 24 after 89 workers, members of the United Workers Union, won their strike. They had maintained a 24-hour picket for three…


Alabama strikers picket NY hedge fund mine bosses

Vol. 85/No. 27 - July 12, 2021
Members of United Mine Workers on strike against Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama, and supporters picket one of company’s owners, BlackRock hedge fund, in New York June 22.

NEW YORK — Ten coal miners on strike against Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama, were joined by officials and staff members of the United Mine Workers here June 22 at informational pickets outside the hedge funds that own controlling…


Florida building collapse product of capitalist greed

Vol. 85/No. 27 - July 12, 2021
June 28 vigil for residents of Champlain Towers in Surfside, Florida, after building collapsed. “Serious degradation of the building’s structure was found three years ago,” said Anthony Dutrow, inset, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Miami mayor. “Owners were urged to get it fixed. This was never done.”

MIAMI — “There are important stakes for the working class in looking at what happened with the deadly collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium building in Surfside and what caused it,” Anthony Dutrow, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor…


Iran vote reflects working people’s distrust of regime

Vol. 85/No. 27 - July 12, 2021

Ebrahim Raisi’s election as president of Iran June 18 was marked by the growing lack of trust in the country’s bourgeois clerical regime by working people. Less than half of eligible voters turned out, the lowest for a presidential election…