Join United Mine Workers April 6 rally to back Warrior Met strikers!

Vol. 86/No. 13 - April 4, 2022
Miners picket Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama, June 15, 2021. Rally April 6 marks one year on strike in fight to reverse deep concessions imposed on miners in 2015 bankruptcy.

ATLANTA — “We’re getting support from unions all over the country for the April 6 rally” to back United Mine Workers of America members who’ve been on strike for a year in Brookwood, Alabama, UMWA Director of Communications Erin Bates…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 86/No. 13 - April 4, 2022

April 7, 1997 President William Clinton reaffirmed Washington’s plans to expand the North Atlantic Treaty Organization into eastern and central Europe at his March 20-21 conference with Russian president Boris Yeltsin in Helsinki, Finland. “I have reaffirmed that NATO enlargement…


‘Militant’ takes fight to defend Ukraine out to working people

Vol. 86/No. 13 - April 4, 2022
Arlene Rubinstein, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Washington, D.C., Delegate to the House, speaks with Wes Short, left, at trucker-led protest in Hagerstown, Maryland, March 16.

Explaining the stakes for working people in opposing Moscow’s war against Ukraine is at the center of discussions that members of the Socialist Workers Party are having with working people on their doorsteps, at factory gates, truck stops, on picket…


How Fidel Castro answered Obama’s call to ‘forget the past’

Vol. 86/No. 13 - April 4, 2022

NEW YORK — During the March 19-20 International U.S.-Cuba Normalization Conference, Sussen Gazal, who is active in the July 26 Coalition in Boston, posed a question to the Cuban delegation. When Gazal visited Havana in 2020 she met a Cuban…


Ohio forum: ‘Workers who are blind are fighters, not victims’

Vol. 86/No. 13 - April 4, 2022
Militant Labor Forum in Cincinnati March 20 featured Dave Perry, Teamsters Local 100 shop steward and board member of the National Federation of the Blind, speaking; Gloria Robinson, right, president NFB Cincinnati chapter; and Maggie Trowe, far left, Socialist Workers Party.

CINCINNATI — Gloria Robinson, president of the Cincinnati chapter of the National Federation of the Blind; Dave Perry, a machine operator at the Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired factory and Teamsters Local 100 shop steward there, as…


Defeat Moscow’s war on Ukraine! Defend Ukraine independence!

US troops, nuclear arsenal out of Europe!
Vol. 86/No. 13 - April 4, 2022
March 21 protest in Kherson, Ukraine, against Moscow’s occupation. Russian troops fired tear gas, stun grenades at them, but rally continued. Sign opposes incorporation into Russia.

Moscow’s invasion has largely stalled as it faces determined resistance from Ukrainian troops and civilians, including in towns in the south that Russian forces occupy. The one city on the edge of being taken is Mariupol, surrounded and facing relentless…


‘The revolution cannot triumph without emancipation of women’

Vol. 86/No. 13 - April 4, 2022
Revolutionary leader and President of Burkina Faso Thomas Sankara speaks on International Women’s Day, March 8, 1987. He was assassinated that year in counterrevolutionary coup.

To mark International Women’s Month, the Militant is featuring the French edition of   Women’s Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle by Thomas Sankara. Sankara  led a popular uprising in August 1983 that established a revolutionary government in Burkina Faso, in…


Farmers fight to defend their land in face of soaring prices

Vol. 86/No. 13 - April 4, 2022

PAVO, Ga. — “The war in Ukraine and rising prices are the No. 1 topics of discussion among farmers in this area, Black and white,” said Willie Head, a longtime farmer in South Georgia. He was speaking with Sam Manuel,…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 86/No. 12 - March 28, 2022

March 31, 1997 The march in Brussels by tens of thousands of workers from across Europe protesting job cuts shows the broad desire among working people to unite internationally to combat the devastation wrought by the capitalist system in its…