The struggle for workers' rights is on the rise. Workers are leading massive struggles against crippling low wages, job insecurity, growing dominance of part-time work and the flagrant attacks on union rights.

This struggle stems from an inspiring history which is too often suppressed and hidden from the working class in the United States.

🎥 Join the PSL this Saturday, 9/23 at the Atlanta Liberation Center to uncover this history at our screening and discussion of the film Salt of the Earth. This remarkable film chronicles the Empire Zinc Strike, a key labor struggle carried out by Mexican American workers in New Mexico in 1951.

The 1954 film was blacklisted upon its release in McCarthyist America for daring to depict a heroic labor struggle tied to the fight against racism and sexism. Many of the actors in the film were actual miners and their families who led the strike. Salt of the Earth has the distinction of being the only film to ever be banned in the U.S.

The mine workers' strike and the sacrifice of filmmakers who lost their careers to McCarthyist witch hunts should inspire us in the continued fight against capitalist exploitation. Join us to discuss the film and its lessons for the labor struggle today.