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PDF Print Version AUSTRALIA $1.50 · CANADA $1.50 · FRANCE 1.00 EURO · NEW ZEALAND $1.50 · UK £.50 · U.S. $1.00 INSIDE The fight to end oppression of Indigenous peoples in Canada — PAGE 7 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF WORKING PEOPLE Vol. 85/no. 31 August 23, 2021 California fire ‘Workers need Back labor battles by catastrophe is to build a party miners, oil workers! a product of to lead fight for capitalist greed political power’ BY JEFF POWERS BY Roy LANDerseN PARADISE, Calif. — High winds Socialist Workers Party candidates and extremely dry vegetation are fuel- and campaign supporters are taking ing the Dixie Fire that has grown to burn the party’s working-class politics far over 450,000 acres — twice the size of and wide, exchanging views and ex- New York City and the second-largest periences with working people on fire in California history. The historic their doorsteps, at strike picket lines town of Greenville has been completely and social protests. incinerated and several other towns in Workers and farmers are seeking the area are threatened. Cal Fire says ways we can get together to defend the blaze is only 21% contained, down ourselves and overcome divisions from 35% a few days ago, as it contin- bosses try to use to weaken us. SWP ues to grow. Unhealthy, smoky haze campaigners explain why it is neces- from the fire has poisoned skies from sary, above all, to build a revolution- Denver to Philadelphia. ary party that can lead millions to “PG&E is culpable,” Julie Whited, overturn capitalist rule, establish our who now lives in the nearby town of Live own workers and farmers govern- Reuters/Dustin Chambers Oak, told the Militant by phone Aug. 7. ment, and carry through a socialist Striking Warrior Met miners and supporters at Aug. 4 rally in Brookwood, Alabama. “Strike isn’t mostly about money,” miner told the Militant. It’s about time with our families and dignity. Utility officials admit that employees revolution. saw sparks from their equipment set a Miners “work too hard to get out Texas refinery workers fight Rally backs miners strike tree on fire near here, the likely cause of the coal,” Kenny Hyche, a retired ExxonMobil bosses’ lockout against Warrior Met Coal the Dixie Fire. auto mechanic, told Joanne Kunian- In 2018 Whited lost everything she sky, Socialist Workers Party candi- by AlysoN KENNEDY BY SUSAN LAMONT owned. Her home here, along with al- date for governor of New Jersey, and AND GeorGE CHAlmers BROOKWOOD, Ala. — Shouts of most all of the town, was burned to the campaigner Susan LaMont when they DALLAS — Some 650 oil work- “No contract, no coal!” and “One day ground in the Camp Fire, the deadliest knocked on his door in a mobile home ers, members of United Steelworkers longer, one day stronger!” rang out Continued on page 9 Continued on page 3 Local 13-243, have been locked out of from the Brookwood Ball Park Aug. 4 their jobs at the ExxonMobil Refinery as striking miners and union supporters and Lubricant Blending and Packaging from surrounding states — more than Working people, youth mobilize to plant in Beaumont, Texas, for over three 1,500 in all — rallied to show support months. They’ve maintained picket lines for the 1,100 miners on strike against 24/7 since they refused to accept a con- Warrior Met Coal here. defend socialist revolution in Cuba tract that would give up long-standing “The rally today was great,” striking seniority rights and divide workers by Continued on page 5 creating different contracts covering the refinery and the lubricant plant. The lockout began May 1, when the On anniversary bosses escorted workers out of the com- Continued on page 5 of port explosion, ‘Fight new Texas workers protest crisis in Lebanon law that restricts by Roy LANDerseN Tens of thousands of protesters ral- women’s right to lied against the Lebanese government in central Beirut Aug. 4 on the first choose abortion!’ anniversary of a huge explosion that by JANet post killed over 200 people, injured 7,000 Unless it is overturned, legislation and forced a quarter of a million from that would ban almost all abortions their homes. They demanded those in Texas after six weeks of pregnancy Continued on page 3 will go into effect Sept. 1. Unlike sim- Juventud Rebelde/Roberto Suárez Students, workers, farmers discuss road forward with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel in ilar “heartbeat laws” adopted in other Havana Aug. 5. Gov’t is organizing to take on economic challenges, impact of U.S. embargo. states — which have been challenged Inside and ruled unconstitutional — the Tex- Woolworth sit-ins opened new by setH GALINSKY To justify his threats, Biden and as law authorizes any individual who President Joseph Biden announced the liberal media are pushing the lie chooses, as well as the state, to take stage in ’60s civil rights fight 2 July 30 that Washington plans to “in- that the Cuban government responded far-reaching steps to enforce it. Cecelia Moriarity, 45 years crease pressure” on Cuba. Since Fidel with “violence and repression” to July It allows any person to go after Castro and the July 26 Movement led 11 protests there. doctors, nurses, clinic volunteers as an SWP cadre 4 Cuban workers and farmers to make In fact, those actions — which in and counselors, family members or Gen. Armando Choy, lifelong a socialist revolution over 60 years some cases included looting and vio- anyone who helps a woman obtain ago, every U.S. president, Democrat lent attacks on supporters of the revo- an abortion or raise funds to cover Chinese Cuban revolutionary 6 and Republican alike, has carried on a lution — were orchestrated by coun- the procedure. Those found “guilty” –On the picket line, p. 4– relentless economic and political war terrevolutionaries in collaboration would face a fine of at least $10,000. against the Cuban people. Continued on page 6 Continued on page 9 Puerto Rican truckers win gains in two-day strike Woolworth sit-ins opened new stage in 1960s civil rights fight BY terrY evans life until you at least experience them “The best feeling of my life was sit- and have the opportunity to talk to ting on that dumb stool,” Frank Mc- them. I’m even more cognizant of that Cain said, describing the moment today,” he told NPR in 2008. he and three other Black students sat The next day, the four men returned down at a “whites-only” lunch counter with 15 other students. Within five days at a Woolworth’s in Greensboro, North 1,000 were trying to squeeze into the Carolina, Feb. 1, 1960. “Nothing has store to demand desegregation. ever happened to me since then that Across the country young people, topped that good feeling of being clean Black and Caucasian, seized on the and fully accepted and feeling proud of example set by the students. By April me,” he told a meeting celebrating the lunch counter sit-ins had spread all sit-ins 50th anniversary. across the South and support actions Their action launched a powerful all across the North. social movement that was to sweep the Sensing the widespread support they Inset, Jack Moebes country over the next year, lead to de- could win, the young people who joined April 1960 Young Socialist campaigns to build segregation of lunch counters at Wool- sit-ins refused to back down when the mass protest movement that won desegrega- worth’s and other establishments, and cops, courts and Ku Klux Klan attacked tion at Woolworth’s. Inset, Frank McCain in marked the entry of a new generation their fight. “You don’t ask permission to February 1960, who with three fellow Black stu- into the fight to overthrow Jim Crow. make a revolution,” McCain told several dents began sit-in movement in North Carolina. McCain described how any initial hundred people at the Greensboro event gangs attacked students joining sit-ins in Freedom Summer in 1964 and strug- anxiety he had vanished and the four marking the 50th anniversary of the sit- the same city, but the protests continued. gles all over the South. men, all studying at the North Carolina ins. It also marked the opening of the By the summer, 100,000 Black and Malcolm X explained that the key to Agricultural and Technical College, re- International Civil Rights Center and Caucasian students in the South alone awakening Blacks and other revolution- fused to move from their seats. The Museum on the site of what had been had joined sit-ins demanding to be ary-minded fighters was not to stress night before McCain, Ezell Blair, Jo- the Woolworth’s store. served. In July Woolworth’s owners their oppression, but to help them recog- seph McNeil and David Richmond fin- When 35 students at Alabama State announced it would desegregate. nize their self-worth. You could see this ished planning their protest, propelled College in Montgomery were arrested The Militant, Socialist Workers Par- in the sanitation workers strike in Mem- by “that little bit of courage that each of after sitting in at the lunch counter of ty and newly founded Young Socialist phis, Tennessee, in 1968, where strik- us instilled in each other.” the county courthouse, Gov. John Pat- Alliance joined the protests and cam- ers wore signs saying “I Am a Man,” Some customers racially abused the terson ordered their expulsion from paigned for support nationwide. a strike that helped galvanize the final four students. Sitting a few stools down college and banned students from dem- To build on the success of the sit- consolidation of the defeat of Jim Crow.
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