Alabama miners strike is in interests of all workers

Unionists demand raise, safe working conditions
Vol. 85/No. 24 - June 21, 2021
June 2 rally in McCalla, Alabama, backs 1,100 mineworkers standing up to Warrior Met Coal.

MCCALLA, Ala. — “We now have $100,000 more in the strike fund to support Warrior Met miners,” United Mine Workers of America International District 20 Vice President Larry Spencer told the union’s weekly solidarity rally here June 2. “We’ve received…


Refinery workers fight ExxonMobil lockout

Back union fight for safety, job security, seniority!
Vol. 85/No. 23 - June 14, 2021
Steelworkers locked out by ExxonMobil protest outside corporate headquarters in Irving, Texas, May 26. “The company is trying to bust the union,” Local President Darrell Kyle said.

BEAUMONT, Texas — Over 650 members of United Steelworkers Local 13-243 are picketing 24/7 at the ExxonMobil Refinery and Lubricant Blending and Packaging plant here since they were locked out by the bosses May 1. They’re standing up to the…


Iranian rulers seek to tighten grip, advance Mideast clout

Vol. 85/No. 23 - June 14, 2021
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, in car, surrounded by protesting coal miners in Azadshahr, Iran, May 2017. His reformist forces have been barred from running in June 18 presidential election. For years workers have fought to end rulers’ wars abroad, economic crisis at home.

Volatile conflicts within Iran’s cleric-led capitalist regime flared up this month after the Guardian Council barred candidates from President Hassan Rouhani’s reformist forces from running in the June 18 presidential elections. Since the last election in 2017,  authorities have faced…


SWP: ‘Workers need a fighting class-struggle road forward’

Vol. 85/No. 23 - June 14, 2021
Joel Britton, left, Socialist Workers Party candidate for California State Assembly District 18, talks with Quenton Hilton, a mechanic, in Fresno May 29. “Only on the job can workers fight together for higher wages, safer working conditions,” Britton said. “Yes!” Hilton agreed.

Socialist Workers Party candidates and campaigners are finding growing receptivity to their perspective for a class-struggle road forward against the attacks of the bosses and their government, and for workers to form their own party, a labor party. This is…


Worldwide caravans demand: End US embargo against Cuba!

Vol. 85/No. 23 - June 14, 2021
Cuban Revolution shows an alternative to “capitalist society we are living in,” Rev. Luis Barrios told participants in May 30 New York caravan, one of 70 worldwide protesting U.S. economic war on Cuba. Next caravans are set for June 20, three days before U.N. vote on U.S. embargo.

Opponents of Washington’s economic war against Cuba held protest caravans in 70 cities around the world from Africa to Europe and the Americas — including 17 in the U.S. — May 29-30, the largest number since the monthly caravans began…


Victory! Florida prisons lift ban on ‘Militant’

Vol. 85/No. 23 - June 14, 2021

Another victory! On May 27 the Militant was informed by Charles Huber, the new chair of the Florida Department of Corrections Literature Review Committee, that the ban on five consecutive Militant issues from March imposed by the Century Correctional Institution…



News update: Victory won in overturning Indiana prison ban

Vol. 85/No. 23 - June 14, 2021

Shortly after going to press June 9, the Militant was informed by Indiana prison authorities that the ban on issues of the paper withheld from subscriber Kevin “Rashid” Johnson had been overturned. “I agree with you that censoring’ images of…


Stand with coal miners on strike in Alabama!

Fight to win pay, benefits lost in bankruptcy
Vol. 85/No. 22 - June 7, 2021
May 20 McCalla, Alabama, rally in solidarity with United Mine Workers on strike against Warrior Met Coal. Miners are fighting to reverse concessions forced on them five years ago.

BROOKWOOD, Ala. — Some 1,100 United Mine Workers of America union members have been on strike since April 1, seeking to win back concessions forced on them five years ago by Warrior Met Coal company. They have set up a…


After the cease fire, what road forward in the Middle East?

Vol. 85/No. 22 - June 7, 2021
Jewish and Arab workers at Rambam Health Care in Haifa, hold Arabic and Hebrew signs May 16 saying “Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies.” This is key to class-struggle road forward.

Both Hamas, the reactionary Islamist party that rules the Gaza Strip, and the government of Israel claim they “won” the latest round of fighting that ended with a May 21 cease-fire. This is the fourth time since 2008 Hamas rocket…