Trump appoints mining industry executive to head Mining Safety and Health
Last month, the Trump administration nominated mining industry association executive Wayne Palmer to head MSHA.
Steve Filips•
Miners must take control of the struggle into their own hands!
Alabama miners are determined to fight, but the UMWA is isolating the strike and working to defeat it.
That's why we're building independent rank-and-file committees of miners, linked with committees of autoworkers, educators, and Amazon workers, which will break the isolation imposed by the corporate-controlled unions and unite the working class.
Build a rank-and-file committee of miners!
The International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC) now includes committees of rank-and-file autoworkers, educators, Amazon workers, postal workers, and bus drivers.
If you are a rank-and-file mine worker, fill out this form now to contact us and start building a committee.
You can also text us at 205-614-9370
“The aim of this global initiative is to develop a genuine broad-based movement of the international working class, and to encourage workers in all countries to break out of the prison-like shackles in which they are confined by the existing state-controlled and antidemocratic unions, staffed by right-wing pro-capitalist executives.” – DAVID NORTH
Australia: Hundreds of jobs in danger amid temporary shutdown of Tahmoor coal mine
Tahmoor workers’ livelihoods are tied up with the fortunes of GFG Alliance, a company that is wracked with crisis on an international scale.
Martin Scott•
Over 100 miners starved to death by the ANC in South Africa, hundreds still in danger
This is a revolting crime of South African capitalism. Comparisons are already being drawn in the country to the Marikana Massacre of 2012, where police under the command of the ANC killed 36 striking workers at the Lonmin platinum mine.
Thomas Scripps•
Jimmy Carter and the 1977-78 coal miners strike
The 111-day walkout by coal miners, which began on December 6, 1977, was a major strategic experience for the American and international working class.
Jerry White•
Tom Peters•
Barış Demir•
Jean Shaoul•
Noel Holt, Martin Scott•
Andrea Peters•
Oppose the Verdi union’s divide-and-rule strategy: For a united strike by German postal, public service and transport workers
The Verdi leadership unreservedly supports the warmongering policy of both the outgoing and incoming federal governments.
Joint appeal by the postal, public service and BVG action committees•
Australia: Committee for Public Education holds online meeting to unite educators, workers and students against the assault on public education
The reports and discussions outlined the crisis in public education and emphasised the urgent need for educators to form independent organisations of struggle to counter the widening attacks on public education and democratic rights.
Our reporter•
US Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee holds online meeting against Trump’s threats to privatize USPS
Postal workers, outraged at the betrayals of the trade unions, discussed what needed to be done now to protect jobs, which included unifying all sections of the working class in a common struggle against oligarchy and dictatorship.
Jacob Crosse•
Emergency meeting: Stop Trump’s moves to privatize USPS! Oppose the illegitimate NALC contract!
USPS workers must link up with other sections of the federal workforce, with auto workers, logistics workers, and other sections of the working class, and with postal workers internationally facing the same threat of privatization.
USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Transport Workers Action Committee•
Transport Workers Action Committee•
A Costco worker•
Committee for Public Education•
Jacob Crosse•