Vale miners in Canada strike over boss attacks

Fight moves to axe retired workers’ health care
Vol. 85/No. 27 - July 12, 2021
Over 2,400 United Steelworkers union miners and other workers at Vale have been on strike in Sudbury since June 1. Sign reflects growing solidarity for the workers’ struggle.

SUDBURY, Ontario — “Everybody’s coming together more, including support from other unions — teachers, CUPE, Unifor and some government workers have come down,” Vale striker and United Steelworkers Local 6500 member Chris Banks told these Militant  worker-correspondents on the picket…


UN says ‘No!’ to Washington embargo on Cuban people

Vol. 85/No. 27 - July 12, 2021

NEW YORK — The United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly June 23 to demand that Washington end its over 60-year-long economic, commercial and financial embargo on Cuba. At the session — the 29th in a row to vote for an…


Readers take ‘Militant,’ book, fund campaign over the top!

Vol. 85/No. 27 - July 12, 2021
Doug Nelson, SWP candidate for mayor of Minneapolis, talks to medical office worker Sergio Ramirez May 22. Supporters have gotten more than enough signatures to put Nelson on ballot.

Supporters of Doug Nelson, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Minneapolis mayor, successfully completed their petitioning drive June 25-27, collecting 700 signatures, 200 more than required to put him on the ballot. Nelson is one of a slate of 19 candidates…


Workers need unions to fight for jobs and for higher wages

Vol. 85/No. 27 - July 12, 2021
Unionists hold protest picket at Frito-Lay plant in Topeka, Kansas, May 3. On June 26 members of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Union Local 218 voted 353-30 to strike July 5. Bosses have stalled negotiations over pay raise and ending forced overtime.

Reversing far-reaching unemployment still faced by millions, along with fighting the effect of rising prices for key necessities, requires action by working people and our unions — joining together to stand up to the bosses, their government and their two…



Iran vote reflects working people’s distrust of regime

Vol. 85/No. 27 - July 12, 2021

Ebrahim Raisi’s election as president of Iran June 18 was marked by the growing lack of trust in the country’s bourgeois clerical regime by working people. Less than half of eligible voters turned out, the lowest for a presidential election…


Florida building collapse product of capitalist greed

Vol. 85/No. 27 - July 12, 2021
June 28 vigil for residents of Champlain Towers in Surfside, Florida, after building collapsed. “Serious degradation of the building’s structure was found three years ago,” said Anthony Dutrow, inset, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Miami mayor. “Owners were urged to get it fixed. This was never done.”

MIAMI — “There are important stakes for the working class in looking at what happened with the deadly collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium building in Surfside and what caused it,” Anthony Dutrow, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor…


‘In US prison system, just going to trial earns you respect’

Vol. 85/No. 27 - July 12, 2021

  One of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for July is the French edition of  Voices from Prison: The Cuban Five. Fernando González, René González, Antonio Guerrero, Gerardo Hernández and Ramón Labañino were arrested on frame-up conspiracy charges by the…


Alabama strikers picket NY hedge fund mine bosses

Vol. 85/No. 27 - July 12, 2021
Members of United Mine Workers on strike against Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama, and supporters picket one of company’s owners, BlackRock hedge fund, in New York June 22.

NEW YORK — Ten coal miners on strike against Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama, were joined by officials and staff members of the United Mine Workers here June 22 at informational pickets outside the hedge funds that own controlling…


App-based UK Bolt drivers strike to be paid as workers

Vol. 85/No. 27 - July 12, 2021
London protest at Bolt, app-based cab hailing company, by 100 members of App Drivers and Couriers Union June 22. They logged off, called for passenger boycott in 24-hour strike.

LONDON — Chanting “Enough is enough!” and “Driver power!” 100 members of the App Drivers and Couriers Union protested outside the London offices of the app-based Bolt cab hailing company here June 22. The action marked the start of a…