Protests demand end to US colonial rule in Puerto Rico

Vol. 85/No. 32 - August 30, 2021
New York City march Aug. 15 protests U.S. colonial rule in Puerto Rico. Actions also took place in several other cities.

NEW YORK — A hundred people marched here Aug. 15 to protest U.S. colonial rule in Puerto Rico. Similar actions were held in Chicago; Detroit; Miami; Oakland, California; Orlando, Florida; and Washington, D.C., under the banner of “No to statehood,…


Cecelia Moriarity, 45 years as a Socialist Workers Party cadre

Vol. 85/No. 31 - August 23, 2021
Cecelia Moriarity showing Militant, books by Socialist Workers Party leaders, other revolutionaries to Darralita Taylor in Seattle in 2013. She explained Militant was uncompromising.

SEATTLE — Over 40 people attended a meeting here Aug. 1 to celebrate the rich political life of Socialist Workers Party member Cecelia Moriarity. A 45-year cadre of the communist movement, Moriarity died July 23 at age 74. Over 30…


Puerto Rican truckers win gains in two-day strike

Vol. 85/No. 31 - August 23, 2021

Thousands of independent owner operator truck drivers and some trucking companies ended a two-day work stoppage July 22 after the Puerto Rican government agreed to extend for at least a year a 35% increase in mileage and hauling rates temporarily…


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…


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…


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…


Steelworkers at ATI ratify contract, end 3-month strike

Vol. 85/No. 29 - July 26, 2021

LOUISVILLE, Ohio — The United Steelworkers union announced July 13 that striking workers had ratified a new four-year contract with Allegheny Technologies Inc. The union said it “raises wages, provides lump-sum payments and protects affordable, high-quality health care for current…


Tribunal: Forstater’s stand for women’s rights was free speech

Vol. 85/No. 28 - July 19, 2021
Maya Forstater, inset, won victory June 10 at London’s Employment Appeal Tribunal after being dismissed from job for stating that biological sex is “real, important, immutable.” This is a precondition for battle to win women’s emancipation. Above, major women’s rights march in 1979 in London.

Maya Forstater won a victory at London’s Employment Appeal Tribunal June 10 when it upheld her freedom of expression after she was dismissed from her job at the Center for Global Development for her defense of women’s rights. Bosses at…


Florida building collapse product of capitalist greed

Vol. 85/No. 27 - July 12, 2021
June 28 vigil for residents of Champlain Towers in Surfside, Florida, after building collapsed. “Serious degradation of the building’s structure was found three years ago,” said Anthony Dutrow, inset, Socialist Workers Party candidate for Miami mayor. “Owners were urged to get it fixed. This was never done.”

MIAMI — “There are important stakes for the working class in looking at what happened with the deadly collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium building in Surfside and what caused it,” Anthony Dutrow, Socialist Workers Party candidate for mayor…


Come to the Int’l Active Workers Conference in Ohio!

Vol. 85/No. 27 - July 12, 2021

The 2021 Active Workers Conference sponsored by the Socialist Workers Party July 22-24 is a unique opportunity to spend three intensive days with fellow working-class fighters discussing the road forward today. The gathering, to be held at Wittenberg University in…