Holiday greetings to all fellow workers behind bars!

Vol. 85/No. 48 - December 27, 2021

Holiday greetings to our readers and all those held behind prison bars! We greet you as fellow workers, members of the only class capable of putting an end to the exploitation and oppression inherent in the capitalist system. All working-class…


Social disaster after tornadoes result of bosses drive for profits

Vol. 85/No. 48 - December 27, 2021

Powerful tornadoes swept across six states Dec. 10, resulting in a death toll climbing to over 100 people, including factory workers left to fend for themselves on the job in Kentucky and Illinois. While the storms were a mighty reflection…


25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 85/No. 48 - December 27, 2021

December 23, 1996 HAVANA — More than 100,000 Havana residents marched December 2 in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the birth of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba. A huge cheer went up as the contingent was announced of…


Build solidarity with the Kellogg, miners strikes!

Kellogg’s strikers say No! to two-tier wages, benefits
Vol. 85/No. 48 - December 27, 2021

The 1,400 members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union continue to stand strong on the picket lines following their overwhelming rejection of a new contract offer by Kellogg’s bosses that would have divided and weakened the…


Miners: ‘We have been on strike for 252 days now’

Vol. 85/No. 48 - December 27, 2021
Warrior Met Coal strike support rally in Brookwood, Alabama, Dec. 8. Court injunction blocking union from mass picketing at mine entrances is serious attack on whole labor movement.

BROOKWOOD, Ala. — “We have been on strike now for 252 days,” United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts told some 200 miners, family members, retired miners and other supporters at the union’s Dec. 8 solidarity rally at City…


Join ‘Militant’ renewal drive, help expand paper’s reach

Vol. 85/No. 48 - December 27, 2021
SWP member Leroy Watson, left, talking with Dwayne Houston in Bellwood, Illinois, about the Kelloggs’s strike, im-portance of workers’ struggles. “I support the unions,” Houston said.

Socialist Workers Party members and other readers of the Militant  are not waiting for the Jan. 1 start of the international campaign to win renewals to the working-class paper and to get back in touch with new subscribers. A team…


Clarks strike strengthens union, pushes back wage cuts

Vol. 85/No. 47 - December 20, 2021

LONDON — After eight weeks on strike, workers at Clarks Shoes distribution warehouse returned to work Nov. 30, having succeeded in pushing back the company’s demand to cut their basic wage by 15%. “It shows what can be done if…


Steel scaffolders strike continues in UK over wages, scabs, safety

Vol. 85/No. 47 - December 20, 2021

SCUNTHORPE, England — “We’re staying out for a result,” striker Dave Birchall told the Militant on the picket line outside the massive British Steel plant here. Sixty scaffolders organized by the Unite union are now into their third month of…


New Zealand warehouse strikers win raises to cover inflation

Vol. 85/No. 47 - December 20, 2021

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — “All we are asking for is enough to pay our bills and feed our kids,” Tetini Rangi told the Militant as he picketed outside Countdown’s distribution center in Mangere Nov. 25. “The prices for rent, food,…