Tribunal: Forstater’s stand for women’s rights was free speech

Vol. 85/No. 28 - July 19, 2021
Maya Forstater, inset, won victory June 10 at London’s Employment Appeal Tribunal after being dismissed from job for stating that biological sex is “real, important, immutable.” This is a precondition for battle to win women’s emancipation. Above, major women’s rights march in 1979 in London.

Maya Forstater won a victory at London’s Employment Appeal Tribunal June 10 when it upheld her freedom of expression after she was dismissed from her job at the Center for Global Development for her defense of women’s rights. Bosses at…


Build support for the UMW strike at Warrior Met mine!

1,100 miners have been on picket line since April 1
Vol. 85/No. 28 - July 19, 2021
Members of United Auto Workers, other unions, join June 30 strike solidarity rally in McCalla, Alabama. Warrior Met Coal strikers demand bosses restore wages and benefits slashed in 2016.

MCCALLA, Ala. — “This strike is so important,” retired United Mine Workers of America member Shirley Hyche said June 30 at the UMWA’s weekly solidarity rally here. She joined several hundred striking miners, family members, retired miners and other unionists…


Tamil refugees seek asylum in Australia

Vol. 85/No. 28 - July 19, 2021

SYDNEY — When immigration police arrested the Murugappan family, including two infant daughters, in a pre-dawn raid March 5, 2018, in Biloela, working people in the small central Queensland country town started a fight for their right to stay. Supporters…


SWP files for ballot in race for governor of California

Vol. 85/No. 28 - July 19, 2021
Dennis Richter, Socialist Workers Party candidate for California governor, talks to Stella Useda while campaigning at Food4Less parking lot in Los Angeles July 5. Useda signed SWP petition.

Los Angeles — “Dennis Richter is for the workers,” said Latrice Mitchell. “I told my co-workers I’d rather vote for him than anybody else,” when asking them to sign the petition to put Richter, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for…


Kazakhstan delivery workers unite, look to organize a union

Vol. 85/No. 28 - July 19, 2021
Food delivery workers in Almaty, Kazakhstan, protest working conditions, pay cut and suspensions imposed by Wolt bosses in May. Workers from different app companies acted together.

Food-delivery workers in Kazakhstan — similar to those whose numbers are growing worldwide — are fighting to organize the first couriers’ union in the country. Some 200 workers are finalizing a charter, Zhenis Orynaliyev, the union chairperson, told openDemocracy June…


Marchers head from Miami to DC, say ‘End US embargo on Cuba!’

Vol. 85/No. 28 - July 19, 2021
Carlos Lazo, center, in Miami on first day of march to Washington, D.C. Join protesters at rally near White House July 25, or at caravans at cities across the United States.

An RV-load of protesters against the U.S. economic war on Cuba are walking more than 1,000 miles over the next month to win support for ending Washington’s embargo. Carlos Lazo, a Cuban American high school teacher from Seattle and founder…


Forum discusses SWP campaigns, recognition of state of Israel

Vol. 85/No. 28 - July 19, 2021
Hundreds of Jewish passengers fleeing Nazi persecution aboard St. Louis ocean liner, above, in 1939 were forced back to Europe after Washington and Ottawa denied them entry. Many died in Holocaust. Israel was founded after imperialist powers barred postwar Jewish refugees.

ATLANTA — “The Socialist Workers Party met the test of the capitalist crisis and pandemic over the past 15 months — in program and action,” SWP National Committee member Steve Clark told 50 people at a Militant Labor Forum here…



Join SWP at Int’l Active Workers Conference in Ohio July 22-24

Vol. 85/No. 28 - July 19, 2021

The Socialist Workers Party-hosted International Active Workers Conference at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, July 22-24, is fast approaching. This will be the first opportunity in two years to join together nationally with so many fellow working-class fighters over three…