Miners force ANC President Ramaphosa to abandon May Day speech
COSATU is warning its ANC partners that they have massively underestimated the anger building in the working class.
Jean Shaoul, Chris Marsden•
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
Russian miners work in “bondage-like conditions” says government official
In the days surrounding official acknowledgment that miners labor under brutal conditions, news broke of more deaths in the country’s extraction, metallurgy and construction industries.
Andrea Peters•
Introduction to new book Pike River: The Crime and Cover-up
Pike River: The Crime and Cover-up, published by Mehring Books, examines the causes of the 2010 New Zealand mine disaster, which killed 29 people, and the decade-long cover-up by successive governments and the judicial system, which have shielded the company leadership from prosecution.
Tom Peters•
1,300 copper mine workers in Utah prepare for struggle against Rio Tinto
Mine workers in Utah, who have risked their lives during the pandemic, are prepared to fight for higher wages, better benefits and safe working conditions.
Jessica Goldstein, Jerry White•
Cesar Uco, Don Knowland•
Terry Cook•
James McDonald, David Walsh•
Bill Van Auken•
Carl Bronski•
Expand the CNH strike to fight for a $10 raise and COLA! Join the CNH Workers Rank-and-File Committee!
The CNH Workers Rank-and-File Committee is being launched in order to organize a real fight for the needs of all workers at CNH.
CNH Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Decision to shutter Ford Saarlouis is looming closer: Stop the plant closure!
The following statement by the Rank-and-File Committee of Ford Workers in Saarlouis was published in German ahead of the works meeting at the Saarlouis plant on Wednesday.
Rank-and-File Committee of Ford Workers, Germany (Ford-Aktionskomitee)•
Quebec educator speaks out against being forced back to work while infected with COVID-19
Quebec school workers are being forced back to work on their fifth day of infection with COVID-19. That is, while still contagious with the debilitating and potentially fatal disease.
Laurent Lafrance•
Vote “NO” on the sellout contract at Stanford! Throw out the bargaining committee and elect a new one committed to fight for what nurses need!
Rank-and-file nurses have responded to the announcement from the union about a sellout agreement by calling for a “NO!” vote and forming their own strike committee.
Stanford Nurses Rank-and-File Strike Committee•
Penny Smith, Roger Jordan•
Thomas Scripps•
Oil Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Ford Workers Rank-and-File Action Committee (Germany)•
Postal Workers Rank-and-File Committee•