Defend the right to strike, picket!

Vol. 85/No. 42 - November 15, 2021

Statement by Alyson Kennedy, Socialist Workers Party Texas state campaign chair, Nov. 3. The court order banning picketing and all union activity within 300 yards of entrances to Warrior Met coal operations in Alabama is an assault on striking United…


Spread word, build support for Deere, Kellogg’s strikes!

Deere strikers vote down contract, fight continues
Vol. 85/No. 42 - November 15, 2021

DENVER — Production and maintenance workers at John Deere’s 12 plants in Iowa, Illinois and Kansas voted 55% to 45% Nov. 2 to reject the agricultural implements bosses’ latest contract offer.   While a majority of United Auto Workers members…



Kellogg’s workers demand ‘Equal pay for equal work’

Vol. 85/No. 42 - November 15, 2021
Oct. 27 union rally in solidarity with Kellogg strike at corporate office in Battle Creek, Michigan.

LANDISVILLE, Pa. — Striking Kellogg’s cereal workers, members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Union Local 374G, held a cookout and rally at the fire station pavilion here Oct. 30. Some 1,400 BCTGM members have been on strike…


450 Steelworkers strike at West Virginia plant

Vol. 85/No. 42 - November 15, 2021

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Some 450 members of United Steelworkers Local 40 have been on strike against Special Metals Corp. here for over a month. The company, which is owned by Warren Buffet’s massive Berkshire Hathaway worldwide operation, is a producer…


SWP campaign points the road forward for all working people

Vol. 85/No. 42 - November 15, 2021
SWP campaigner Gabby Prosser, left, speaks with Raven Mosley in Minneapolis. Mosley said she’s worked hard for 20 years to get by, while bosses “make millions while they’re sleeping.”

Today’s discussion about what workers can do to fight back against the relentless attacks of the bosses and their government continues broadly, as results of the Nov. 2 elections offer no solutions for working people.  Socialist Workers Party campaigners continue…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 85/No. 42 - November 15, 2021

November 18, 1996 In a victory for women’s rights, on October 30, South Africa’s National Assembly passed a bill allowing women to choose abortion on demand, at state expense, up to the twelfth week of pregnancy, and later under certain…


Kaiser workers protest two-tier pay, demand more staff

Vol. 85/No. 42 - November 15, 2021
Kaiser health care workers rally in Pasadena, California, Oct. 30. “We are stretched far too thin,” said Jenny Wong Swanson, Kaiser health care workers rally in Pasadena, California, Oct. 30. “We are stretched far too thin,” said Jenny Wong Swanson, a shop steward of the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals.

PASADENA, Calif. — Chanting, “From the desert to the Bay, equal work for equal pay,” over 1,000 nurses and other health care workers marched and rallied against cutbacks demanded by Kaiser hospital bosses at facilities in Hawaii, Oregon and Southern…


Cuban Revolution vs. US capitalism

A convinced people vs. pandemic mandates
Vol. 85/No. 42 - November 15, 2021
One of millions of home visits in Cuba by medical students, volunteers, in Ciego de Ávila in March, to check on people’s health, ensure anyone with COVID symptoms gets treatment.

There is no COVID-19 vaccine mandate in Cuba. Yet by the time you read this some 73% of the population will be fully vaccinated and over 90% will have at least one dose, one of the highest rates in the…


Barbers defeat boss move to cut pay at army bases

Vol. 85/No. 42 - November 15, 2021

“I’m glad to be back at work,” Mike Kates, a barber with 15 years at the Fort Lee U.S. Army base barbershop in central Virginia, told the Militant in a phone call Oct. 29. “After almost four months on strike,…