Striking miners win solidarity in New York City

Vol. 85/No. 30 - August 16, 2021

NEW YORK — Several hundred members of the United Mine Workers union rallied and picketed outside the offices of BlackRock here July 28 to support striking miners at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama. BlackRock is the largest hedge fund…


Gloria Richardson, fighter for Black rights, Freedom Now Party

Vol. 85/No. 30 - August 16, 2021
Meeting in Chester, Pennsylvania, hosted by Freedom Now Committee, March 14, 1964, to form Black rights group ACT. From left, Lawrence Landry, Chicago school boycott leader; Gloria Richardson; comedian Dick Gregory; Malcolm X; and Stanley Branche, committee chair.

Gloria Richardson, a leader in the fight for Black rights in the U.S., died July 15. She was 99. As head of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee in Cambridge, Maryland, an affiliate of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, she led…


Water, power cuts fuel protests against Iran gov’t, wars abroad

Vol. 85/No. 30 - August 16, 2021
Protests erupted across Iran, including in mainly Arab Khuzestan province, above, then to Tehran by July 25, sparked by water, power outages, regime military interventions in region.

Protests against Iran’s bourgeois-clerical regime spread from Khuzestan province, home to the country’s Arab minority, to cities and towns elsewhere in mid-July. Triggered by severe water shortages and power outages that hit hard on working people, demonstrators protested the Iranian…


All out in solidarity with Warrior Met miners on strike!

Vol. 85/No. 30 - August 16, 2021

Statement by Róger Calero, Socialist Workers Party candidate for New York City mayor, Aug. 4. Solidarity is needed to reinforce the strike by 1,100 miners at Warrior Met Coal and build on support they received at their rally in Brookwood,…


SWP hosts Active Workers Conference in Ohio July 22-24

Vol. 85/No. 29 - July 26, 2021

Under the banner of “Leading the Working Class to Take Power/ Join the Socialist Workers Party!/ Build the Communist Vanguard!” the SWP is hosting an International Active Workers Conference at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, July 22-24. Working-class fighters who’ve…



Freedom Rides built fight to topple Jim Crow segregation

Vol. 85/No. 29 - July 26, 2021
Freedom Riders Ken Shilman, left, and Joe McDonald being escorted by authorities out of “colored waiting room” at Trailways bus station under arrest in Jackson, Mississippi, June 2, 1961. They were among hundreds thrown in jail. Inset, Jimmy Allen Ruth, who died last month at 83, was Trailways driver who volunteered to take Freedom Riders from Nashville, Tennessee, to Jackson.

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Freedom Rides, one of the high points of the Black-led proletarian civil rights struggle that overturned Jim Crow and decisively changed social relations in the U.S. Despite U.S. Supreme Court rulings in…



Rose Knight, 50-year-long builder of communist movement in UK

Vol. 85/No. 29 - July 26, 2021

LONDON — Rose Knight, a 50-year veteran of the communist movement, died June 26 after a yearslong illness. She was 76. Knight was a founding member of the Communist League in 1988 and served on the party’s Central Committee in…


Quebec laws divide French, English-speaking workers

Vol. 85/No. 29 - July 26, 2021
Protest against Law 21 in Montreal, 2019, that bans public sector workers from wearing religious symbols at work. New Bill 96 introduced in National Assembly in May would limit access to English in schools, government matters, at a time French-English bilingualism has increased.

MONTREAL — Under the pretext of defending “Quebec’s values,” the government of the Coalition for the Future of Quebec here introduced a bill in the National Assembly May 13 that attacks workers’ rights. Bill 96 claims to “curb the decline…