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.
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
Siberian miners began a hunger strike over unpaid wages on Monday, four days after three were killed in a gold mine collapse in the Russian Far East.
Two deaths during August at the Byerwen Coal Mine brought the official number of miners who have lost their lives in the state of Queensland’s mining sector during the past decade to 26.
The draconian sentences signal “the criminalization of social protest and the use of criminal law to prevent people from defending their rights,” said the miners’ attorney.
The tradition must be recovered of the struggle of miners serving as a powerful spearhead in the fight for social equality and the ending of centuries of colonialist looting.
Rank-and-file committees among autoworkers in both North America and Europe must be expanded to include every key factory, giving workers the power to shut down the global industry.
“Our ability to reach broader sections of workers is an expression of the objective conditions forced upon us internationally. Across industry and geographic lines, workers are facing increasing workloads, decreasing pay, and deteriorating workplace safety.”
The meeting was attended by autoworkers, railroaders, postal workers, nurses and bus drivers from Australia, Canada, Germany, Britain and Brazil, as well as numerous workers and youth in the United States.
“You need organizations which you control, to transfer power from corrupt officials in bed with management to the 33,000 IAM members at Boeing, as well as the company’s global workforce.”
