Striking miners at expanded picket at entrance to Warrior Met Coal No. 7 mine June 15 where company is using scabs. This is first union contract strike battle in Alabama mine since 1980s.

Back Warrior Met miners out on strike in Alabama!

Solidarity crucial in months-long battle

MCCALLA, Ala.—Striking United Mine Workers of America members, backed by their families, retirees and other union supporters, gathered for a solidarity rally at Tannehill State Park here June 16, marking 2½ months on strike against Warrior Met Coal. The rallies…


Workers need to fight for jobs, wages to match all price hikes

United Steelworkers union members on strike against Allegheny Technologies Inc. and their supporters rally at plant in Washington, Pennsylvania, June 22. Workers are fighting against company attacks on union, cuts in retirement benefits, demand workers pay more for health insurance.

Workers face a triple whammy today — continued high unemployment, price hikes on basic necessities like gas and food, and efforts by the bosses to protect their dog-eat-dog competitive edge and profits on our backs. What millions confront shows the…


‘Workers in US, Puerto Rico face the same enemy’

The U.N. Special Committee on Decolonization held its annual hearing on the status of Puerto Rico June 18, after skipping the previous year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Puerto Rico has been under the boot of Washington as a U.S.…


Join the Socialist Workers Party campaign! Help spread the word

In Woodland Park June 13, Richard Beinabel and Yamilka Mendez told Joanne Kuniansky, right, Walmart worker running as SWP candidate for N.J. governor, they liked that she is independent of Democrats and Republicans. They got Militant, books on working-class politics.

The Socialist Workers Party is on the ballot in New Jersey! The June 14 deadline passed with no challenge to the 1,500 signatures SWP campaign supporters collected for Joanne Kuniansky, the party’s candidate for New Jersey governor. The party plans…


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Caravans demand: ‘End US embargo against Cuba!’

Caravan through Holguín, Cuba. Caravans and rallies protesting U.S. government’s economic war against people of Cuba took place around the world June 20, three days before U.N. voted to demand end to Washington’s embargo on Cuba.

Opponents of Washington’s decadeslong bipartisan economic war against Cuba organized caravans and rallies around the world June 20 demanding “End the U.S. embargo against Cuba! U.S. out of Guantánamo now! End U.S. travel restrictions against Cuba!” The protests were the…







Cuba and Chernobyl

This Cuban documentary produced in 2006 tells the story of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe in Ukraine and Cuba’s exemplary internationalist medical program that treated more than 25,000 victims.