BALTIMORE, February 19—Transit workers are in multiracial solidarity with their Alabama sisters and brothers who have been on strike since April of 2021. Our locale, learning from the Party’s efforts last year, continued this solidarity by demonstrating at Metro locations. Progressive Labor Party strives to organize millions to smash the wage system.
Win or lose their strike, the coal miners have demonstrated once again the crucial leadership of Black workers and women, and also the dangers of relying on liberal misleaders like the rotten sellout United Mine Workers of America president, Cecil Roberts.
Their fightback has been a model of multiracial unity for workers across the U.S. and the world. They show us the road to communist revolution, where a united international working class smashes racism, sexism, nationalism and imperialism with communism once and for all!
Dare to struggle, dare to win!
The workers in the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 689 voted “YES” to support the 1,000 multiracial Warrior Met coal miners who have been on strike fighting scabs and other management attacks for almost one year (see box). They also donated $2,500 to the strikers. Readers who would like to support the UMWA strike can donate to https://paypal.me/UMWAStrikePantry
ATU 689’s support and donation to the UMWA strike fund is a reform win for the miners. Today’s demonstration is a small but revolutionary win for the international working class.
 Following the communist principle of relying directly on the working class, we distributed CHALLENGE and flyers about the strike to about 75 Metro workers at the Silver Spring, MD and Ballston, VA Metro locations.
Our strike-support signs and our boldness helped get the word out in support of the striking miners and called for international working class communist revolution.
The world’s capitalists today are arming themselves to the teeth to defend their empires, with new wars erupting such as in Ukraine.
Bringing multiracial fightback home
Since last summer, PLP has sent members and friends to Alabama to support the strikers (see previous editions of CHALLENGE). A new leader from the DC/Baltimore Party who made this trip quickly saw the will of the UMWA workers and the greed of the Warrior Met Coal bosses. She returned determined to raise more support for this militant multiracial strike. Her report to the collective led to this month’s actions and ongoing efforts to support the miners
Smash borders, build international fightback
From Tuscalooosa County, Alabama to Ukraine to Somalia to Yemen, with the support of the working class and additional mobilizing efforts to support fightbacks like these miners, it’s clear that the bosses will never work in the best interests of the working class These actions show the need for and logic of revolution, since only a communist society will meet the needs of the working class. We have plans of mobilizing at additional stations. We will not stop exposing the greedy bosses at Warrior Met Coal and calling on the international working class to join PLP and smash Warrior Met, racism, imperialist wars and capitalism once and for all! JOIN US.