25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 86/No. 27 - July 25, 2022

July 28, 1997 UNITED NATIONS — “We have come to denounce the colonial and imperialistic policies that the United States has imposed on Puerto Rico for the last 99 years,” said Raquel Rivera June 19 at the UN Special Committee…


Build solidarity with UAW strikers at Case New Holland!

Vol. 86/No. 27 - July 25, 2022

Help get the word out about the strike by workers at Case New Holland widely in the labor movement and beyond! This fight by hundreds of United Auto Workers members in Iowa and Wisconsin is a fight in the interest…


SWP candidates in Minneapolis speak out against antisemitic flyers

Vol. 86/No. 27 - July 25, 2022

Socialist Workers Party candidates in Minnesota issued a statement July 5 answering vile antisemitic leaflets distributed anonymously in the Highland Park neighborhood of St. Paul, near Talmud Torah’s Newman elementary school. The rightist leaflet was headlined “Every Single Aspect of…


In blow to rights, Ukraine upholds ban on Communist Party

Vol. 86/No. 27 - July 25, 2022

In a serious blow to political rights, a Ukrainian administrative court in Lviv July 5 upheld the government’s longstanding ban on the Communist Party and the Happy Ukraine Party. Both were among the 11 parties ordered shut down by President…


Protests hit Russian-occupied Mariupol over lack of water

Vol. 86/No. 27 - July 25, 2022

People living in the largely devastated outskirts of the Russian-occupied city of Mariupol erupted in a substantial protest July 8 after two pensioners died in the street trying to find drinking water. A meeting at a school in the Volonterivka…



Prison authorities refuse to give inmates mail, only digital scans

Vol. 86/No. 26 - July 18, 2022

More and more prison systems across the country are no longer delivering mail from the post office to workers behind bars. On the pretext of slowing the flow of drugs and other contraband to inmates, they are requiring that letters,…


Dutch farmers protest gov’t moves to cut their herds

Vol. 86/No. 26 - July 18, 2022

Thousands of farmers driving their tractors demonstrated June 22 in central Netherlands protesting government plans to compel them to reduce their livestock herds by 30%, forcing the scaling back or closing of a number of farms. Traffic came to a…


Warrior Met miners’ rally marks 15 months on strike

Build solidarity in fight against assault on UMWA
Vol. 86/No. 26 - July 18, 2022
Mitin del UMWA en Brookwood, Alabama, junio 29. A pesar de enormes ganancias la empresa Warrior Met se niega a restaurar los salarios y beneficios recortados, ataca derechos sindicales.

BROOKWOOD, Ala. — Striking miners at Warrior Met Coal and their family members and supporters gathered at a rally of 400 outside United Mine Workers of America Local 2397’s union hall here June 29, marking 15 months on strike. In…


Locked-out Rolls-Royce workers in Montreal rally, win solidarity

Vol. 86/No. 26 - July 18, 2022
Frédéric Labelle, president of Montreal local of CSN workers locked out by Rolls-Royce, speaks to unionists outside Montreal courthouse June 22, the day after bosses fired him.

MONTREAL — A festive yet determined barbecue was held here June 29 to show solidarity with 530 engine repair workers locked out by Rolls-Royce bosses and with 300 striking bakery workers at Bridor on the south shore. Both are organized…