Back Warrior Met miners, Kellogg workers on strike!

Ban on picketing at Alabama mine draws national protests
Vol. 85/No. 45 - December 6, 2021
Miners march in Washington, D.C., Nov. 18, part of national actions against Warrior Met Coal bosses’ court order banning all strike activity within 300 yards of company’s coal mines.

WASHINGTON — “No contract, no coal” chanted some 150 United Mine Workers of America members and their supporters at a rally here Nov. 18 in support of striking miners locked in a bitter strike battle against Warrior Met mine bosses…


Spirits high as Kellogg’s strike over two-tier wages continues

Vol. 85/No. 45 - December 6, 2021

OMAHA, Neb. — With spirits high, workers on picket lines outside the Kellogg’s plant here Nov. 17 said they’re determined to win their strike against divisive two-tier wages.  The 480 workers here are striking along with over 1,000 other members…


Alabama miners fight court injunction by Warrior Met

Strikers also face court attacks at Deere, Kellogg
Vol. 85/No. 44 - November 29, 2021
Mineros de mina Warrior Met en Brookwood, Alabama, 15 de junio, mientras la policía trata de prevenir que los piquetes afecten producción. El 27 de oct. un juez prohibió líneas de piquetes.

ATLANTA — “This is a serious attack on the union,” Bryan Butler, a United Mine Workers of America member on strike at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama, told the Militant by phone Nov. 16. He was referring to the…


US-organized provocation against Cuba ‘fizzles out’

Vol. 85/No. 44 - November 29, 2021
Partidarios de Revolución Cubana en manifestación en Nueva York frente a la Misión de Cuba ante la ONU el 15 de nov. También hubo un grupo más pequeño de opositores de la revolución.

U.S.-government-organized provocations planned in Cuba for Nov. 15 were a failure, as were “sympathy” actions denouncing Cuba’s socialist revolution around the world. Opponents of the revolution had hoped to create incidents on the island that would disrupt the reopening of…


SWP pushes to go over 100% in books, fund ‘Militant’ drive

Vol. 85/No. 44 - November 29, 2021
Dag Tirsén, right, and Lillian Julius, far left, introduce the Militant, books on revolutionary politics to participants at London protest in solidarity with fight against military coup in Sudan.

Less than a week is left in the drive to expand the readership of the Militant and books by Socialist Workers Party leaders and other revolutionaries and raise funds for the SWP. Campaigners are organizing to make or surpass the…


Hundreds rally with Clarks Shoe strikers fighting wage cuts in UK

Vol. 85/No. 44 - November 29, 2021
“They never thought we’d strike. They never thought we’d stay out. And they never thought we’d win this sort of solidarity,” striker Pete Darbo says as support comes from across U.K.

STREET, England — Hundreds of trade unionists and working people from the local area, and as far away as Wales, London and Manchester, joined a march here Nov. 13 in solidarity with striking Clarks Shoes workers fighting against wage cuts.…


Rebuff by working people, 2021 losses fuel divisions in Democratic Party

Vol. 85/No. 44 - November 29, 2021
Deepening capitalist crisis is behind increased labor actions. Striking bakery workers, members of BCTGM Local 374G, picket Kellogg’s cereal plant in East Hempfield, Pennsylvania, Oct. 30.

Frictions and acrimony roiling the Democratic Party — between so-called moderates like Sen. Joe Manchin from West Virginia, “progressives” like Nancy Pelosi and Hillary Clinton, and liberals and socialist Democrats like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — are exacerbated by the party’s 2021…


Kyle Rittenhouse trial in Kenosha poses question of rights workers need

Vol. 85/No. 44 - November 29, 2021

KENOSHA, Wisc. — The murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse has drawn renewed attention to events that unfolded here after cop Rusten Sheskey shot Jacob Blake Jr. last year. The trial and debate surrounding it underscore the stakes for working people…


Solidarity with striking miners at Warrior Met!

Join fight against court ban on right to picket
Vol. 85/No. 43 - November 22, 2021
Miners and supporters march in New York Nov. 4 to back seven-month strike at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama, protest court ban on all picketing within 300 yards of mines.

NEW YORK — Led by a contingent of miners from the more than seven-month-long strike at Warrior Met Coal in Brookwood, Alabama, over 400 people marched here Nov. 4 to support the strikers and to protest an Oct. 27 court…