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•
Letter from Costco worker to rank-and-file meeting: “The working class is primed and ready for mobilization, it is now on us to act”
The following statement was written by a founding member of the Costco Workers Rank-and-File Committee (CWRFC) to be read at Sunday’s public meeting called by the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees, “Mobilize the working class to save the US Postal Service and other federal programs!”
A Costco worker•
Australia: Build rank-and-file committees against accelerating assault on public education!
The CFPE calls on teachers and school workers to join our ranks to fight for decent conditions and wages for all educators, and a public education system that provides the highest quality schooling for all students.
Committee for Public Education•
Online rank-and-file meeting calls for mass mobilization of working class in US and internationally in opposition to illegal firings
Attendees at meeting called by the US Postal Workers Rank-and-File committee passed a resolution calling on workers to make preparations for “mass resistance, up to and including strike action.”
Jacob Crosse•
ONLINE MEETING SUNDAY: Mobilize the working class to save the US Postal Service and other federal programs!
The attacks on federal workers are part of a broader attack on the social and democratic rights of workers across the country. Join postal workers, federal employees, autoworkers, postal workers from other countries and others in an online meeting this Sunday at 3pm Eastern/12pm Pacific to discuss a strategy to fight back.
USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Costco Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Ford Workers Rank and File Committee•
Nancy Hanover•
USPS Workers Rank-and-File Committee•
Committee for Public Education•