Kellogg’s workers demand ‘Equal pay for equal work’

Vol. 85/No. 42 - November 15, 2021
Oct. 27 union rally in solidarity with Kellogg strike at corporate office in Battle Creek, Michigan.

LANDISVILLE, Pa. — Striking Kellogg’s cereal workers, members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Union Local 374G, held a cookout and rally at the fire station pavilion here Oct. 30. Some 1,400 BCTGM members have been on strike…


Spread word, build support for Deere, Kellogg’s strikes!

Deere strikers vote down contract, fight continues
Vol. 85/No. 42 - November 15, 2021

DENVER — Production and maintenance workers at John Deere’s 12 plants in Iowa, Illinois and Kansas voted 55% to 45% Nov. 2 to reject the agricultural implements bosses’ latest contract offer.   While a majority of United Auto Workers members…


Alabama court bans miners’ right to picket at Warrior Met

Vol. 85/No. 42 - November 15, 2021

ATLANTA — In an outrageous assault on workers’ rights, Tuscaloosa County Circuit Court Judge James H. Roberts Jr. handed down a restraining order Oct. 27 ordering the United Mine Workers of America to halt all picketing or any other union…


How the program of the Bolshevik Revolution took root in the US

Vol. 85/No. 42 - November 15, 2021
Meeting of factory committee during 1917 Russian Revolution. The victory of the Bolshevik-led socialist revolution inspired millions to build communist parties worldwide, including in U.S. Workers founded party here with “perspective of revolution in this country,” said James P. Cannon.

The First Ten Years of American Communism: Report of a Participant by James P. Cannon is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia inspired revolutionary-minded workers worldwide. Cannon, one of many won…


Protests say: ‘End US economic war against Cuba!’

Vol. 85/No. 42 - November 15, 2021
Protests say: ‘End US economic war against Cuba!’

Over 60 people rallied in front of Miami City Hall Oct. 31, above, demanding an end to the U.S. government’s embargo against Cuba. They set out in a caravan of 50 cars to Little Haiti’s Toussaint L’Ouverture Park, receiving a…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 85/No. 42 - November 15, 2021

November 18, 1996 In a victory for women’s rights, on October 30, South Africa’s National Assembly passed a bill allowing women to choose abortion on demand, at state expense, up to the twelfth week of pregnancy, and later under certain…


450 Steelworkers strike at West Virginia plant

Vol. 85/No. 42 - November 15, 2021

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Some 450 members of United Steelworkers Local 40 have been on strike against Special Metals Corp. here for over a month. The company, which is owned by Warren Buffet’s massive Berkshire Hathaway worldwide operation, is a producer…



Defend the right to strike, picket!

Vol. 85/No. 42 - November 15, 2021

Statement by Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party Texas state campaign chair, Nov. 3. The court order banning picketing and all union activity within 300 yards of entrances to Warrior Met coal operations in Alabama is an assault on striking United…


As prices of necessities rise, workers need unions to fight back

Vol. 85/No. 42 - November 15, 2021
Food prices have soared. Government doesn’t count ‘volatile’ figures in official inflation rate.

Rising prices on food, energy, rent and other necessities are upending the lives of millions of working people. Claims by government economists that this is just temporary are wearing thin. The government aids the bosses by making inflation appear lower…