Union protests challenge sacking of 800 UK ferry workers

Vol. 86/No. 13 - April 4, 2022

DOVER, England — Hundreds of seafarers and workers from other unions joined protests here and in other ports across the country denouncing the summary dismissal of 800 workers by P&O Ferries shipping company. In a planned union-busting assault, P&O vessels…


Steelworkers strike Chevron refinery in California

Vol. 86/No. 13 - April 4, 2022
Striking members of United Steelworkers Local 5 picket the Chevron refinery in Richmond, California, March 21. They are in a fight over forced overtime, wages and safety conditions.

RICHMOND, Calif. — More than 500 workers, members of United Steelworkers Local 5, went on strike March 21 at the Chevron refinery here in a fight over work schedules, safety and wages. Workers on the picket line that day told…


Quebec aircraft engine maintenance workers strike Rolls-Royce

Vol. 86/No. 13 - April 4, 2022

MONTREAL — Some 530 Rolls-Royce aircraft engine maintenance workers here, members of the Quebec Confederation of National Trade Unions (CSN), set up strike picket lines March 15. Several strikers told the Militant that the company had locked them out while…


1991 Iraq war sounded opening guns of World War III

Vol. 86/No. 13 - April 4, 2022

Below is a selection from New International no. 7, which features the article “Washington’s Assault on Iraq: The Opening Guns of World War III,” published just after the first Gulf War. Copyright © 1991 by New International. Reprinted by permission.  …


Minneapolis teachers and support staff continue strike

Vol. 86/No. 13 - April 4, 2022

MINNEAPOLIS — Striking teachers and educational support staff have been picketing schools every morning and holding rallies several times a week since walking out March 8. Some 4,500 members of the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers Local 59 are fighting for…


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,…