Macron imposes another ‘French values’ attack on working people

Vol. 85/No. 30 - August 16, 2021

French President Emmanuel Macron is using deadly assaults by Islamists to push through legislation restricting free speech and freedom of worship. The laws make what he calls “separatism” a criminal offense in the name of imposing “French values.” The Law…


Fight to get workers back on the job, defend our jobs and unions

Vol. 85/No. 30 - August 16, 2021
Some 600 members of BCTGM Local 218 at Frito-Lay in Kansas returned to work July 26 after three weeks on strike over forced overtime, wages. They won broad solidarity for their fight.

While the bosses’ press celebrates a profit bonanza on Wall Street, millions of workers still don’t have jobs, employers are fighting to hold down wages as prices keep rising, and the federal government’s COVID-based bar on evictions has expired. Changing…


Join Socialist Workers Party campaigning!

Vol. 85/No. 30 - August 16, 2021
Socialist Workers Party campaigner Leroy Watson, right, discusses historic advances in fight against racism, including on strike picket lines, with Ben Allen, in Bellwood, Chicago, Aug. 1.

“SWP campaigners come out of the July 22-24 Socialist Workers Party International Conference better prepared to join in the struggles of working people and point the road forward to building a party that will lead millions to overturn capitalist rule…


Over 1,500 rally to back coal miners in Alabama

Strike to regain better wages, conditions, safety
Vol. 85/No. 30 - August 16, 2021
Striking Warrior Met miners, families and supporters rally in Brookwood, Alabama, Aug. 4. Women gaining industrial jobs have advanced working class, fight for women’s emancipation.

BROOKWOOD, Ala. — Over 1,500 unionists and other workers from Alabama, West Virginia, Kentucky, North and South Carolina, Mississippi, Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois, Georgia and Missouri converged in cars and buses on the ballpark in this small town where 1,100 members…


D.C. protest: End US gov’t economic war against Cuba!

Vol. 85/No. 30 - August 16, 2021
Several hundred protesters from East Coast joined July 25 action near the White House to say, “Yes to Cuba! No blockade!” Counterprotesters called for U.S. military intervention.

WASHINGTON — Some 300 people joined a July 25 protest at Lafayette Park near the White House, demanding an end to the more than 60-year-long U.S. economic war against Cuba. The action welcomed Seattle school teacher Carlos Lazo and other…


Aluminum workers strike Rio Tinto in Canada

Vol. 85/No. 30 - August 16, 2021
Members of Unifor Local 2301 on strike against Rio Tinto rally July 28 at company’s aluminum smelter in Kitimat, British Columbia, protesting bosses’ attacks on pensions, health care, safety.

Some 900 Rio Tinto aluminum workers in Kitimat, British Columbia, members of Unifor Local 2301, set up picket lines July 25 after their contract expired. The strike followed seven weeks of fruitless negotiations and a 100% strike vote. The strikers…


Rolls-Royce maintenance workers back on strike, win solidarity

Vol. 85/No. 30 - August 16, 2021

BARNOLDSWICK, England — Seventeen maintenance engineers who are members of the Unite union at Rolls-Royce’s jet-engine plant here have restarted strike action. The bosses have been dragging their heels in implementing a deal with the union to secure jobs through…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 85/No. 30 - August 16, 2021

August 19, 1996 The following statement was issued July 31 by Socialist Workers Party candidates for U.S. president and vice president, James Harris and Laura Garza. Capitalizing on the explosion of Trans World Airlines flight 800 with the loss of…


All out in solidarity with Warrior Met miners on strike!

Vol. 85/No. 30 - August 16, 2021

Statement by Róger Calero, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York City mayor, Aug. 4. Solidarity is needed to reinforce the strike by 1,100 miners at Warrior Met Coal and build on support they received at their rally in Brookwood,…


Gloria Richardson, fighter for Black rights, Freedom Now Party

Vol. 85/No. 30 - August 16, 2021
Meeting in Chester, Pennsylvania, hosted by Freedom Now Committee, March 14, 1964, to form Black rights group ACT. From left, Lawrence Landry, Chicago school boycott leader; Gloria Richardson; comedian Dick Gregory; Malcolm X; and Stanley Branche, committee chair.

Gloria Richardson, a leader in the fight for Black rights in the U.S., died July 15. She was 99. As head of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee in Cambridge, Maryland, an affiliate of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, she led…