Letters

Vol. 85/No. 22 - June 7, 2021

Chernobyl, Cuban Revolution Thanks for the article on Cuba’s assistance to the victims of Stalinist mismanagement in Chernobyl. Teaching at the community college in Miami in the first decade of this century, I had several students who were among the…



SWP: ‘Workers need to build our own party, a labor party’

Vol. 85/No. 22 - June 7, 2021
Ved Dookhun, SWP candidate for mayor of Albany, speaks to Francesca Jones on her porch May 21. Jones subscribed to Militant, got Malcolm X, Black Liberation, and the Road to Workers Power.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Socialist Workers Party candidates Ved Dookhun for Albany mayor and Kathie Fitzgerald for Albany Common Council president have been joined by supporters campaigning in working-class areas of the city since announcing their campaign at a press conference…


Bakery workers in Northern Ireland win strike, pay raise

Vol. 85/No. 22 - June 7, 2021

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Two hundred bakery and dispatch workers won an improved pay offer from bosses at Hovis and voted to return to work May 24. The workers, members of the Unite union and the Bakers, Food and Allied…


May 30 caravans: ‘End US economic war against Cuba!’

Vol. 85/No. 22 - June 7, 2021
May 30 caravans: ‘End US economic war against Cuba!’

Caravans and rallies are being organized in cities across the U.S., and in Canada, the U.K. and other countries — including in Cuba — May 30 to demand: End the U.S. embargo against Cuba! U.S. out of Guantánamo now! End…


Fidel Castro: ‘No one has been slandered more than the Jews’

Vol. 85/No. 22 - June 7, 2021

Supporters of Hamas and some middle-class radicals have responded to the recent fighting between the reactionary Islamist group and the Israeli military by organizing protests under the slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine must be free” — a…


Back Quebec iron ore workers strike against ArcelorMittal

Vol. 85/No. 22 - June 7, 2021
Over 150 people in Longueuil, near Montreal, march outside ArcelorMittal headquarters May 21 to support iron ore miners on strike in Port-Cartier and Fermont in northern Quebec.

PORT-CARTIER, Quebec — More than 2,500 iron ore miners, processing, rail and office workers here and in Fermont, members of United Steelworkers Locals 5778, 6869, 8664, 7401 and 7401-FP, have been on strike against ArcelorMittal since May 10. The company…


UAW Volvo truck workers vote bosses’ contract down by 91%

Vol. 85/No. 22 - June 7, 2021

DUBLIN, Va. — Some 2,900 members of United Auto Workers Local 2069 voted overwhelmingly to reject a proposed tentative agreement with Volvo Truck North America’s New River Valley Plant bosses. The vote was 91% against Volvo’s offer as a whole,…


ATI strikers ‘hang tough’ after 9 weeks on picket line

Vol. 85/No. 22 - June 7, 2021

PITTSBURGH — Some 1,300 steelworkers union members at nine Allegheny Technologies Inc. plants in five states have been on strike since March 30. A federal mediator was called in after ATI bosses refused to bargain in good faith. Whenever Militant …


Protest: ‘Charge cops who shot Andrew Brown’

Vol. 85/No. 22 - June 7, 2021

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Protesters took to the streets in Elizabeth City May 18, just hours after Pasquotank County District Attorney Andrew Womble announced he had ruled that the shooting death of Andrew Brown Jr. by sheriff’s deputies there was “tragic,…