The UMWA bureaucracy’s supporters in the Democratic Socialists of America are blaming workers for the assault in order to weaken the strike and force through the demands of the coal operators.
Miners and community members have denounced the United Mine Workers officials who attacked two members of the “Dixieland of the Proletariat” podcast, falsely believing they were representatives of the World Socialist Web Site .
United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts and ten other UMWA officials were arrested Tuesday during a civil disobedience protest outside of Warrior Met Coal’s No. 7 mine in Brookwood, Alabama.
Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar (Twitter/@AjitPawarSpeaks)
Following uproar and pushback over Maharashtra governmentâs decision to spend Rs 5.98 crore for appointing a private agency to handle Deputy Chief Minister (Dy CM) Ajit Pawarâs social media handles, Pawar has now issued the instructions to cancel the earlier government order in this regard, reports
Times of India.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had strongly opposed the state governmentâs move to spend crores on appointing a private agency for handling the social media handles of Pawar.
BJP MLA Atul Bhatkhalkar had attacked the Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray led tri-party Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government and sought cancellation of the decision. He said that the move was meant for the public relations exercise of CM Thackeray and Dy CM Pawar.