AUSTRALIA $1.50 · CANADA $1.00 · FRANCE 1.00 EURO · NEW ZEALAND $1.50 · UK £.50 · U.S. $1.00 INSIDE Canada truckers stand firm in face of order to end strike — PAGE 7 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF WORKING PEOPLE Vol. 78/no. 13 April 7, 2014 Get ready Moscow troops Miners in Ukraine discuss for ‘Militant’ grab Crimea, fight for sovereignty, rights drive to win US sanctions Coverage from coal region near Polish border new readers target workers by emma joHnson BY FRANK FORRESTAL Militant supporters are gearing up KIEV, Ukraine — Russian troops for the spring international subscrip- took over the last of 189 Ukrainian tion and book sales campaign, taking military bases in Crimea March 23 as the working-class paper to neighbor- part of their seizure of the peninsula hoods in city and countryside, on the and have taken up threatening posi- job, to social protests and other politi- tions along Ukraine’s eastern border. cal events. Meanwhile, the imperialist powers of They will be encouraging other America and Europe imposed financial readers of the socialist press to join them in these activities as they cam- paign to free the Cuban Five, back Back Ukrainian the fight for Ukrainian sovereignty working people’s fight and oppose Washington’s economic for sovereignty! sanctions and military threats against Russia. Russian troops out! Last week, New York Militant sup- porters took part in speaking engage- No to US, European Militant/Dag Tirsén ments by representatives of the Fed- sanctions, threats “It’s not true that people from my region don’t support the struggle against Russian oc- eration of Cuban Women (FMC), who cupation,” Xenia Kuznetsova, left, student from Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, told Militant correspondents Joanne Holowchak and Ned Dmytryshn, right, in Kiev’s Maidan March 21. were in the city participating in the against Russia! United Nations Commission on the BY JOHN STUDER Militant worker-correspondents Status of Women, March 10-21. sanctions, for which working people of SOKAL, Ukraine — “While the spoke with a number of miners and The FMC leaders spoke at a meet- Russia will bear the brunt. And Wash- trade unions themselves didn’t play other working people during a couple ing in Brooklyn’s Haitian community ington beefed up joint military maneu- a central role in the Maidan, workers days spent in and around this town of organized by Lakou New York and vers in the Black Sea with a number of and unionists certainly did,” former roughly 20,000 on the western bor- another at the National Black Theatre former Soviet republics and other gov- miner Yuriy Demkiv told the Militant der with Poland. The area is host to in Harlem. They also gave presenta- ernments in central and eastern Europe. March 23. The Maidan, Kiev’s Inde- seven coal mines; a coal processing tions at two classrooms at John Jay Col. Yuli Mamchur, former head pendence Square, was the scene of plant with 900 workers, the majority Continued on page 3 Continued on page 6 bloody street battles with riot police women; and a garment plant with a leading up to the fall of the pro-Mos- workforce of 800 that makes socks. cow government of President Viktor “What we have accomplished is Unionists locked out by Kellogg: Yanukov ych. Continued on page 9 ‘We’re fighting for all workers’ Atlanta art exhibit spurs interest in campaign to free Cuban Five BY JANICE LYNN Black women’s college here. Brown ATLANTA — “I learned some- was among three dozen who came to thing new today and I want to make the March 20 opening at the college a presentation in my class to let them of “I Will Die the Way I’ve Lived,” an know about it,” said Aries Brown, 20, exhibit of paintings by Antonio Guer- a senior at Spelman, a historically rero, one of five Cuban revolutionaries framed up and jailed by Washington. Guerrero painted the collection of Deaths in NY jail 15 watercolors last year — the 15th year of the Five’s incarceration. To- gether they depict in vivid colors, and draw attention Continued on page 4 to reality of US capitalist ‘justice’ Also Inside Militant/Susan Lamont Workers locked out by Kellogg picket March 15 in Memphis, Tenn. From left: Roger Brown, by setH galInsky Harrison Edrington, Christy Small, James Redden, Harold Phillips and Otha Phillips. NEW YORK — The Feb. 15 death Rally marks anniversary of Jerome Murdough, 56, has put the of cop killing in England 2 BY SUSAN LAMONT national Local 252G are fighting to spotlight on conditions at Rikers Is- AND DAVE FERGUSON prevent Kellogg bosses from dealing land prison complex here and the U.S. Judge blocks Arkansas ban MEMPHIS, Tenn. –– Workers at a blow to their union by hiring tem- “justice” system. on post 12-week abortions 2 Kellogg Company’s cereal plant here porary, part-time workers at the plant Murdough was arrested for tres- continue to staff picket lines around- — at $6 an hour less and with fewer passing after cops saw him sleeping Strike at Cambodia shoe the-clock as they head into the sixth benefits and rights than employees in a public housing stairwell on a factory wins pay increase 5 month of a lockout by the food-pro- working under the BCTGM contract. cold night Feb. 7. The homeless man cessing giant. The 226 members “We’re not only in this for our- was sent to Rikers and placed in a Rally backs hunger strikers of Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco selves,” Marvin Rush, who has mental-observation unit where he at immigration jail in Wash. 6 Workers and Grain Millers Inter- Continued on page 5 Continued on page 7 Rally marks 2nd anniversary of killing by cops in England BY DAG TirsÉN lawful,” but the five cops involved were MANCHESTER, England — Some acquitted on manslaughter charges two 50 people gathered in the city center years later. In 2011 Hull city officials here March 2 for a vigil and rally on the confirmed that the Alder family was second anniversary of the police killing given someone else’s body for burial. of Anthony Grainger. Grainger was un- Participants were encouraged to attend armed in his car in Culcheth village near an April 5 action in Hull to protest the Manchester when he was gunned down. police cover-up and killing of Alder. The action was organized by the Jus- “The killings by the police were not tice4Grainger campaign. mistakes, not police departments out of “With the support of the government, control,” Pete Clifford from the Com- they think they have the right to go out munist League told participants. “It is and kill,” said Carole Duggan, who part of a system that criminalizes the spoke about the killing of her nephew working class. It goes hand in hand Mark Duggan by cops in 2011. with the erosion of the legal aid system, Militant photos by Dag Tirsén The killing of Duggan triggered pro- moves toward limiting jury trials and Above, Janet Alder speaks at March 2 rally in Manchester, tests and riots in several cities. In Janu- plans for 100-year sentences.” England, on second anniversary of police killing of Anthony Grainger. Alder’s brother Christopher Alder ary an inquest jury ruled Duggan’s kill- was choked to death by cops while in police detention ing as “lawful,” despite the established Caroline Bellamy contributed to this ar- center in 1998. Inset, Carole Duggan speaks about kill- fact that he had no weapon at the time. ticle. ing of her nephew Mark Duggan by police in 2011. On Jan. 16, a few days after the Dug- gan ruling, the Manchester Crown Pros- ecution Service decided not to charge Judge blocks Arkansas abortion ban after 12 weeks the cop who shot Grainger. Instead, it charged Chief Constable of Greater BY BRIAN WILLIAMS and the American Civil Liberties Union ed, which through use of an intrusive Manchester Police Peter Fahy under the A federal judge March 14 struck filed a suit against the law in April 2013. vaginal ultrasound can be as early as Health and Safety at Work Act for “fail- down an Arkansas law banning abor- The following month Judge Wright is- six weeks into a pregnancy. A feder- ing to ensure that unnecessary risk to tions after 12 weeks of pregnancy — sued a temporary injunction against al judge has temporarily blocked this the suspects was avoided.” He will not one of the most restrictive bills passed implementing the 12-week ban, a ruling provision pending outcome of a legal have to appear in court and “does not by state legislatures nationwide. that has now become permanent. challenge. share the criminal liability,” reported In her ruling, U.S. District Judge Supporters of abortion rights in “The North Dakota law is unconsti- Salfordstar.com. Susan Wright wrote that the law “im- North Dakota won a victory in their tutional,” said Hoy. While the heartbeat “Fahy won’t pay a thing and the permissibly infringes a woman’s fight to keep the Red River Women’s issue is being fought out, “there is al- money will go straight back to the same Fourteenth Amendment right to elect to Clinic in Fargo open, the only abortion ready a 20-week ban in effect here, less justice system,” said Wesley Ahmed, terminate a pregnancy before viability.” clinic in the state. A 2013 law mandated than federal guidelines provide.” Grainger’s cousin, who chaired the rally. The court, however, upheld the provi- doctors who perform abortions to ob- In Texas, a law requiring admission Also speaking was Janet Alder, sion requiring a woman seeking an tain admitting privileges at a hospital privileges at nearby hospitals for doc- whose brother Christopher Alder, 37, abortion to undergo an ultrasound and within 30 miles of the clinic, a require- tors performing abortions at clinics has was choked to death by cops in a Hull be informed in writing if a heartbeat ment very difficult to meet for the three led to the closure of a number of clin- police detention center in 1998.