SWP campaign expands reach, builds solidarity in Ill. coalfields

Vol. 85/No. 25 - June 28, 2021
Dennis Richter, SWP candidate for California governor, talks to unemployed home care worker Liliana Garcia in San Ysidro June 11 about amnesty for undocumented workers living in U.S.

Everywhere Socialist Workers Party campaigners are finding interest in discussing what workers and farmers face and how we can stand up together against the bosses’ assaults. Campaigners are in the final weeks of a nine-week drive to sell 1,400 Militant…


New Zealand rally protests military regime in Myanmar

Vol. 85/No. 25 - June 28, 2021

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Some 50 people gathered at Aotea Square here June 13 to protest the brutal military regime’s war against the people of Myanmar since it seized power in a coup Feb. 1. Similar protests were held around…



30,000 health care workers strike in New Zealand

Vol. 85/No. 25 - June 28, 2021

AUCKLAND, New Zealand — Some 30,000 nurses, midwives and other health workers walked off the job in a nationwide eight-hour strike June 9, after overwhelmingly rejecting the government’s latest contract offer. The nurses work in public hospitals and outpatient services,…




Strikers organize expanded picket, rally at ATI steel in Pennsylvania

Vol. 85/No. 25 - June 28, 2021

VANDERGRIFT, Pa. — “Fair contract now!” 120 striking steelworkers, family members and supporters chanted at a rally and expanded picket line at the Allegheny Technologies Inc. plant here June 9. Some 1,300 United Steelworkers union members walked out at nine…


Alabama miners strike is in interests of all workers

Unionists demand raise, safe working conditions
Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021
June 2 rally in McCalla, Alabama, backs 1,100 mineworkers standing up to Warrior Met Coal.

MCCALLA, Ala. — “We now have $100,000 more in the strike fund to support Warrior Met miners,” United Mine Workers of America International District 20 Vice President Larry Spencer told the union’s weekly solidarity rally here June 2. “We’ve received…


Working people worldwide look to fight effects of rising prices

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021
Demonstration during Friday prayers in Taiz, Yemen, June 4, protesting devastating impact of inflation, deterioration of government social services and widespread official corruption.

Food prices and the cost of other necessities for working people are soaring worldwide, highlighting the urgent need for workers to join together to fight for jobs, higher wages and automatic cost-of-living adjustments on our wages and retirement pay. Millions…


25, 50 and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021

June 24, 1996 CHARLOTTE, North Carolina — Arsonists burned down a portion of an historic Black church here June 6. This is one of more than 30 fires set in Black churches in the South since early 1995. The attacks…