Australia: BHP iron ore strike in Pilbara—first in decades
Reports of exactly how many workers walked off the job range from almost 200 to just 63, with the company anxious to downplay the industrial action as an ineffectual fiasco.
Martin Scott•
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
The 1929–1930 miners’ lockout—a key strategic experience of the Australian working class
The existing accounts of the lockout all put the defeat down to the miners themselves—courageous, but worn down after 16 months of struggle. This article examines the critical role of the Labor Party, the trade unions and the Communist Party in isolating the locked-out miners and finally forcing them back to work on the terms of the coal barons.
John Harris, Peter Symonds•
Call for inquiry into dropping of charges over New Zealand’s Pike River mine disaster
Christopher Harder, a former criminal lawyer, has called for police to investigate the unlawful deal to drop charges against the company’s chief executive Peter Whittall.
Tom Peters•
Australia: BHP hires strikebreakers as mining workers vote for industrial action
The unions responded to BHP’s scab labour initiative by pleading for more backroom talks.
Martin Scott•
Leonard Johns•
Samuel Davidson•
Peter Symonds•
Peter Symonds•
Peter Symonds•
AEU-Labor government trying to ram through sell-out of Victorian educators: Vote no! Form rank-and-file committees!
The Committee for Public Education, a rank-and-file educators’ network, calls on teachers and educators to repudiate the government-AEU conspiracy against their rights, including by voting “no” in the union’s rushed ballot.
Committee for Public Education•
Australia: Oppose the sellout union agreements at WSU! Build rank-and-file committees!
The WSU management is trying to push through new 2026–30 enterprise agreements that will facilitate more job destruction, further real pay cuts and increased workloads.
Western Sydney University Rank-and-File Committee•
VW Action Committee calls for strikes and industrial action at all sites. Break the control of the IG Metall union apparatus! Defend every job!
Volkswagen is moving forward with plans to cut 100,000 jobs and close four plants in Germany, the deepest attack on VW workers ever and part of a global wave of layoffs in the auto industry.
Volkswagen Action Committee•
Reinstate Nexteer worker Antwiane Sanders immediately! An injury to one is an injury to all! Remove the company’s cops in the UAW bureaucracy!
Antwiane Sanders, a Nexteer worker with more than 10 years on the job, was fired after speaking out against the fourth tentative agreement at a UAW Local 699 roll-out meeting held on company premises.
Statement of the Nexteer Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
NHS FightBack•
USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Nexteer Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Nexteer Workers Rank-and-File Committee•