Asarco strikers fight for union, first raise in 10 years

Vol. 83/No. 44 - December 2, 2019
Workers rally Nov. 18 in solidarity with copper workers on strike against Asarco at company headquarters in Tucson, Arizona. The miners, who struck Oct. 13, are fighting union busting.

TUCSON, Ariz. — Solidarity for striking copper workers got a boost from a Nov. 18 rally of 150 in front of Asarco’s headquarters here. The workers have been on strike since Oct. 13 at four mining complexes in Arizona and…


Bolivia protests demand end to rightists’ ouster of Morales gov’t

Vol. 83/No. 44 - December 2, 2019

Thousands of people are protesting in Bolivia against the wave of attacks by rightist forces that led to the ouster of President Evo Morales Nov. 10. Protesters demand that self-proclaimed president Jeanine Áñez step down and Morales return from exile…


Step up pace to make fall books, fund, Militant drive

Vol. 83/No. 44 - December 2, 2019
Communist League member Felicity Coggan, left, speaks with Jennifer Holmes Nov. 16 in Sydney, Australia. “The whole system needs an overhaul,” said Holmes, “I’m paying full market rent on my own.” She bought Militant subscription and The Turn to Industry book.

Socialist Workers Party members are stepping up the pace of the international drive to expand the readership of the Militant and books by revolutionary leaders that explain the program of the party in the campaign’s final three weeks. An invaluable…


Protests win stay of execution, new hearing for Rodney Reed

Vol. 83/No. 44 - December 2, 2019
Nov. 17 action in Austin, Texas, celebrates victory, gives boost to fight to free Rodney Reed.

AUSTIN, Texas — “My brother’s fight is not over,” Rodrick Reed told the rally of some 100 people who gathered in front of the Texas governor’s mansion Nov 17. They were celebrating a stay of execution won by his brother…


Democrats’ impeachment drive targets working people

Vol. 83/No. 44 - December 2, 2019

Democrats and the liberal media have stepped up their effort to overturn the results of the 2016 presidential election. They have begun carefully stage-managed televised hearings into the CIA-initiated impeachment frame-up against President Donald Trump, claiming his efforts to push…


‘For recognition of Israel and of a Palestinian state’

Vol. 83/No. 44 - December 2, 2019

After Israeli Defense Forces carried out a “surgical” airstrike in Gaza City Nov. 12, killing senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander Baha Abu al-Ata and his wife, the group responded with some 50 hours of retaliatory rocket fire. A dozen more…


Back strikers fighting Asarco union busting!

Join Nov. 18 solidarity rally in Tucson!
Vol. 83/No. 43 - November 25, 2019
Copper strikers picket Mission mine in Arizona Nov. 11. Asarco bosses want to break the unions.

SAHUARITA, Ariz. — Some 1,700 copper workers on strike at Asarco’s five complexes in Arizona and Amarillo, Texas, since Oct. 13 are fighting naked union busting by the bosses. They deserve the support and solidarity of workers everywhere. Worker-correspondents for…


Sales of ‘Turn to Industry’ book boosts fall campaign

Vol. 83/No. 43 - November 25, 2019
Jerion Evans gets The Turn to Industry: Forging a Proletarian Party by SWP National Secretary Jack Barnes, from Maggie Trowe, and Samir Hazboun, right, in Louisville, Kentucky, Nov. 9.

The Socialist Workers Party drive to get 1,100 Militant subscriptions and 1,250 books by revolutionary leaders into the hands of working people got a boost with the publication of The Turn to Industry: Forging a Proletarian Party by SWP National…


UN vote: End Washington’s economic war against Cuba

Vol. 83/No. 43 - November 25, 2019

UNITED NATIONS — For the 28th year in a row, the U.N. General Assembly voted Nov. 7 to demand the U.S. rulers end their economic, commercial and financial embargo against Cuba. The resolution passed with 187 votes in favor. Only…