Back the Warrior Met miners, Nabisco strikes!

Nabisco strikers fight to keep ‘what we already won’
Vol. 85/No. 33 - September 6, 2021
Workers picket Portland, Oregon, Nabisco plant, to block bosses’ steep concession demands.

PORTLAND, Ore. — “We were the first to go out, on Aug. 10,” Cameron Taylor, business agent for Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union Local 364, which represents about 200 workers on strike at the Nabisco bakery…


Warrior Met strike is a ‘union issue for the whole nation’

Vol. 85/No. 33 - September 6, 2021

McCALLA, Ala. — “We decided to take up the cause of the striking miners because this is a union issue for the whole nation,” Mark Bass, president of International Longshoremen’s Association Local 1410 in Mobile, Alabama, told the Militant in…


US rulers’ war in Afghanistan was disaster for working people

Vol. 85/No. 33 - September 6, 2021

Since Joseph Biden ordered U.S. troops out of Afghanistan, an admission the U.S. rulers’ 20-year war there was a failure, Taliban forces swept across the country taking Kabul, the capital, Aug. 15. Some 5,800 U.S. troops, alongside 1,000 British soldiers…


US rulers end 20-year-long imperialist war in Afghanistan

Vol. 85/No. 32 - August 30, 2021
Afghan national flag raised again in main square protest in Jalalabad Aug. 18 after its removal by Taliban. Three people were reported killed, 12 wounded as Taliban soldiers fired on crowd.

The U.S. rulers’ 20-year war and occupation of Afghanistan, and the carnage it inflicted on working people at home and abroad, ended with further devastation as the Taliban retook the capital, Kabul, Aug. 15. In the wake of President Joseph…


Massachusetts nurses fight for safety, patients’ health

Solidarity crucial as strike enters fifth month
Vol. 85/No. 32 - August 30, 2021
Nurses from St. Vincent Hospital picket in Worcester, Mass., July 6. Some 700 nurses have been on strike since March 8. Fight for better nurse/patient ratios is at center of their struggle.

WORCESTER, Mass. — “We are holding strong,” Jackie Brosnihan, a nurse on strike here at St. Vincent hospital, told the Militant Aug. 14. Brosnihan is one of 700 nurses who walked off the job March 8 over dangerous conditions facing…


Defend, emulate Cuba’s socialist revolution! End US embargo!

Vol. 85/No. 32 - August 30, 2021
“Building socialism is based on the capacities of the masses to organize themselves and to better guide industry, agriculture and the country’s economy,” said Che Guevara in August 1962. Guevara, above center, visits factory in Cuba’s Pinar del Río province.

NEW YORK — Why does Cuba’s socialist revolution continue to live, fight and set an example worldwide more than 60 years after workers and farmers there took power? What makes class and social relations in Cuba so different from anywhere…


Earthquake, decades of US plunder brings social catastrophe in Haiti

Vol. 85/No. 32 - August 30, 2021
Cuban medical volunteers treat patients in southwest Haiti after earthquake. Cuba’s internationalist medical mission — 253 health care workers strong — has been in Haiti for 22 years.

The capitalist press in the U.S. presents the social catastrophe unfolding in Haiti since a 7.2 magnitude earthquake ravaged its southwest Aug. 14 as a natural disaster. But there is little that is “natural” about the more than 1,900 dead,…


SWP campaign: ‘Workers need to fight to take political power’

Vol. 85/No. 32 - August 30, 2021
“I lost everything I valued in the Camp Fire,” Richard Reed told Jeff Powers, left, and Joel Britton, right, Socialist Workers Party candidate for State Assembly, in Paradise, California, Aug. 7. SWP campaigners are returning to visit with workers in area devastated by Dixie Fire.

“Working people today are keenly interested in how we can organize to fight to change the disastrous conditions we face worldwide — from Afghanistan, to Haiti, to the Middle East and here in mines, mills and other workplaces across the…


Fight for shorter workweek with no pay cut to put us back to work!

Vol. 85/No. 32 - August 30, 2021

Workers today face an ongoing struggle for jobs, safe working conditions and enough pay to survive. Some are locked out or are on strike over boss demands to worsen workers’ conditions, including at the Warrior Met coal mine in Alabama,…