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…
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…
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…
“We think workers should support unionists standing up to the bosses’ attacks, like striking miners in Alabama, and refinery workers in Minnesota and Texas,” Socialist Workers Party member Samir Hazboun told truck driver Dale Robinson in Louisville, Kentucky, June 5.…
Claiming they’re taking steps to root out white supremacy, California’s State Board of Education and similar authorities in other states are considering a new curriculum that would upend how mathematics is taught in public schools. It’s outlined in a document…
June 17, 1996 The statement below was released June 5 by James Harris, Socialist Workers Party candidate for president, and SWP vice-presidential candidate Laura Garza. Our campaign calls on the labor movement and every democratic-minded human being to organize protests…
The enthusiastic response to the SWP “stimulus” appeal has made a big addition to the resources for the ongoing work of the SWP! Over the last two and a half months 148 people have contributed $177,920! This column extends a…
VALLEE-JONCTION, Quebec — Over 250 striking meatpackers, members of the Union of Olymel Workers at Vallee-Jonction, marched here May 24 protesting their treatment by the bosses. Some 1,000 union meatpackers walked out when the employers refused to show up for…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — When Margaret Trowe, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor of Louisville, and supporters took part in a “March for Palestine” May 23 organized by Students for Justice in Palestine, they set up a table with campaign literature,…
BANBURY, England — Workers at the Jacobs Douwe Egberts coffee factory here held a three-day strike starting May 26, one of a series of stoppages to oppose wage and pension cuts, worse job conditions and the imposition of inhumane shift…
