Texas refinery workers fight lockout by ExxonMobil

Vol. 85/No. 19 - May 17, 2021

DALLAS — More than 650 members of United Steelworkers Local 13-243 were locked out May 1 by ExxonMobil bosses at their refinery in Beaumont, Texas. Negotiations had begun in January for a new contract, but company officials walked workers out…


Coffee workers in UK fight big-time wage cuts

Vol. 85/No. 19 - May 17, 2021

BANBURY, England — Dozens of workers at Jacobs Douwe Egberts staged a May Day plant gate action here in rural Oxfordshire 80 miles northwest of London. The Unite union members have started escalating strike actions in a fight against the…


SWP condemns attack on Minnesota mosque

Vol. 85/No. 19 - May 17, 2021

MOORHEAD, Minn. — Hundreds gathered at the Moorhead-Fargo Islamic Community Center and mosque here April 26 carrying paintbrushes and cleaning chemicals. They had come to remove vulgar, anti-Muslim graffiti spray-painted there the day before, including “Death to Islam,” “Women can’t…


Quebec meeting celebrates Cuba’s socialist revolution

Vol. 85/No. 19 - May 17, 2021
Mara Bilbao, Cuban consul general in Montreal, speaking at Montreal celebration of Cuban Revolution April 17. Other speakers, from left, Philippe Tessier, Communist League candidate for mayor in Montreal borough of Ville St-Laurent, and Consul official Eduardo Escandell.

MONTREAL — “We’re here to celebrate the 60th anniversary of three historic turning points in the Cuban Revolution,” said Communist League leader Michel Prairie, welcoming some 40 people to an April 17 meeting organized by the Communist League and supported…



25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 85/No. 19 - May 17, 2021

May 20, 1996 The following statement was issued May 8 by Socialist Workers candidates James Harris for U.S. president and Laura Garza for vice-president. The Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress are joining forces to deal a blow against…


High court hears challenge to California disclosure law

Vol. 85/No. 19 - May 17, 2021
Socialist Workers campaign office in Hazleton, Pa., damaged by firebombing Sept. 11, 2004. Disclosure laws open workers, organizations to attacks by government, political opponents.

Oral arguments were held before the U.S. Supreme Court April 26 on a lawsuit that challenges the state of California’s requirement that the over 100,000 charities registered there must hand over lists of major donors. The case poses an important…


SWP ‘stimulus’ donations hit $158,940, keep climbing!

Vol. 85/No. 19 - May 17, 2021

Over the past week 10 new contributors donated $10,140. Contributions to the Socialist Workers Party from U.S. government $1,400 “stimulus” payments are at $158,940 from 121 people and increasing! The U.S. government continues to send out the stimulus payments as…


Letters

Vol. 85/No. 19 - May 17, 2021

Chauvin trial I don’t understand at all the statement from Doug Nelson in the May 10 issue, “Chauvin trial dealt blows to rights workers need.” Isn’t serious jail time for killer cops after big protests in the street a victory?…


Steelworkers reject ATI threats, pickets stay up

Vol. 85/No. 19 - May 17, 2021
April 28 picket line at ATI steel mill in Washington, Pennsylvania. Bosses want to force union to accept job losses to contract workers, deeper two-tier divisions, increase in insurance costs.

WASHINGTON, Pa. — The strike by 1,300 United Steelworkers members against Allegheny Technologies Inc. heated up as the union categorically rejected the bosses’ ultimatum to swallow their concessionary offer by April 26 or face worse. The strike began March 30.…