Free Ed Poindexter, former Black Panther framed up 53 years ago

Vol. 87/No. 24 - July 3, 2023

LINCOLN, Neb. — This coming Aug. 31 marks 53 years 78-year-old Edward Poindexter will have been in prison. A number of organizations that support prisoners’ rights are reporting Poindexter’s left leg was amputated below the knee recently. Neither his family…


25, 50 and 75 years ago

Vol. 87/No. 24 - July 3, 2023

June 29, 1998 FLINT, Michigan — Hundreds of unionists and others gathered outside of the General Motors Delphi East plant on June 11 to greet some of the 5,800 union members expected to join the strike against the auto giant.…


Corrections

Vol. 87/No. 24 - July 3, 2023

In the Militant article entitled “Forum protests FBI attacks on constitutional freedoms” in issue no. 22, the sentence accredited to Cynthia Wilson was actually information taken from the Minnesota Department of Human Rights investigation into the Minneapolis Police Department’s practices…



Warrior Met miners protest at Vanguard Group headquarters

Vol. 87/No. 24 - July 3, 2023
United Mine Workers and supporters demonstrate at Vanguard Group investment company in Malvern, Pennsylvania, June 6, demanding Warrior Met Coal rehire miners with union intact.

MALVERN, Pa. — Several hundred United Mine Workers of America members and retirees and other unionists demonstrated at the Vanguard Group investment company headquarters here June 6 in solidarity with Warrior Met Coal union members. They are demanding to be…


Build solidarity for today’s union battles

Vol. 87/No. 24 - July 3, 2023

Statement by Róger Calero, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York City Council, June 21. Strike battles today, like those by members of the Writers Guild nationwide and Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 390G in Memphis, Tennessee,…



Memphis Bakery Workers strike over health care, overtime

Vol. 87/No. 24 - July 3, 2023
Bakery Worker unionists struck International Flavors and Fragrances in Memphis, Tennessee, June 4.

More than a year after their last contract ran out, nearly 200 members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Local 390G went out on strike at International Flavors and Fragrances in Memphis, Tennessee, June 4. The workers produce…


Weekly protest in Baluchistan hits Iran regime repression

Vol. 87/No. 24 - July 3, 2023
Weekly protest in Baluchistan hits Iran regime repression

For the 37th week in a row thousands took to the streets of Zahedan in the Baluchistan region of Iran June 16, above, to protest repression at the hands of the bourgeois clerical government, despite military helicopters flying overhead prior…


Beijing bars Hong Kong protest to mark Tiananmen anniversary

Vol. 87/No. 24 - July 3, 2023

In an effort to block a June 4 commemoration of those killed in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989, Hong Kong’s Victoria Park was filled with over 200 booths that weekend, part of a “Hometown Market Carnival.” That event was organized…