East Palestine working people fight for control over their lives

Vol. 87/No. 18 - May 8, 2023
Oil refinery worker Rich Miner, center, and Sheree Artis talk to Socialist Workers Party member Seth Galinsky in Paulsboro, New Jersey, April 23. Miner said he volunteered for the cleanup after 2012 derailment there, when vinyl chloride spilled, same chemical as in East Palestine.

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Workers, farmers and small-business people here continue to press for action to clean up the area and protect their health after the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern train derailment, fire and burn-off of toxic vinyl chloride. They’re…


Solidarity with the struggle by people of East Palestine!

Working people need control over cleanup, health
Vol. 87/No. 17 - May 1, 2023
Covered piles of contaminated soil still sitting in East Palestine, Ohio, after Feb. 3 train derailment, fire caused social disaster. Workers, farmers and small-business people are fighting for control of their future in face of contempt for working people by rail bosses, government.

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Workers, farmers and small-business people here continue to receive support and solidarity from working people across the country. They are fighting to take control over the cleanup, to guarantee lifelong health care and to rebuild their…


East Palestine: ‘Get out truth about derailment, cleanup’

Residents, rail workers seek control over their lives
Vol. 87/No. 16 - April 24, 2023
Cleanup of toxic spill in East Palestine, Ohio, after Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern derailment. Working people there are fighting to open rail bosses’ books, take control of health and cleanup.

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Working people, small farmers and small-business people here, as well as rail workers across the country, continue to discuss steps to advance their interests after the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern train derailment and ensuing toxic chemical…



Support East Palestine fight for control over the cleanup

Rail workers win victory against 1-person ‘crew’
Vol. 87/No. 14 - April 10, 2023
“People from all over have been coming together to help,” Kaylee Ball, holding a copy of the Militant amid donations at her Salem, Ohio, farm, told SWP member Jacquie Henderson March 23. Working people are battling effects of derailment in East Palestine.

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Solidarity with working people, farmers and small-business people who have been affected by the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern train derailment and their fight to win control over the cleanup and rebuilding here is being expressed through…


US bakery workers discuss job safety with unionists in Cuba

Vol. 87/No. 14 - April 10, 2023
Che Guevara, in uniform, visits a factory as Cuba’s minister of industry in the early 1960s. Along with Fidel Castro, Che was part of Cuba’s Marxist leadership that led workers to take control of production to maximize meeting needs of working people, ensure safety on the job.

HAVANA — Several industrial bakery workers from the U.S., members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers union, had the opportunity to exchange experiences with leaders of Cuba’s trade unions earlier this year. We met with Jorge Luis…


Support workers, farmers in East Palestine!

Vol. 87/No. 13 - April 3, 2023

Workers, farmers and small proprietors in East Palestine are fighting to take control over the cleanup and rebuilding of their region. They need solidarity from your union, fellow workers and from farmers with their struggle. Let them know they’re not…


Fight for working people to control derailment cleanup

Jeep caravan shows support for East Palestine
Vol. 87/No. 13 - April 3, 2023
Jacob Tate and family came from Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, to join Jeep caravan in East Palestine March 18 to back fight of residents to win control of cleanup, rebuilding after toxic derailment.

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Throngs of residents here lined Market Street March 18 to cheer the “Jeep Invasion” into this small town. The caravan was organized to help working people and small-business owners recover from the disastrous Feb. 3 Norfolk…


Working people in East Palestine fight for control over area cleanup

Vol. 87/No. 12 - March 27, 2023
Cleanup crew places booms across stream in East Palestine to try to stem spread of harmful chemicals after Feb. 3 derailment. Norfolk Southern rail bosses, backed by government, ignored impact on residents, setting fire to five cars of vinyl chloride, worsening toxic disaster.

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Socialist Workers Party members visited with workers and farmers here March 13-14, discussing how rail workers and other union members, farmers, small proprietors and youth in the area can come together to force Norfolk Southern rail…