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the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
Jan 20, 2025
Jonathan Steinke and Ken Tran died of asphyxiation from a leak of argon gas while working in a confined space in the basement of Northrop Grumman’s rocket motor factory in Magna, Utah in January 2023. Utah first fined the giant military contractor all of $172,350, calling the safety violations that killed the two workers “serious” and “willful.” But late last year the state discreetly deleted half of the violations and cut the fines by more than half.
The plant is pushing production of the new Sentinel intercontinental ballistic nuclear missile which is projected to cost more than $140 billion. Steinke’s father said, “My son died a senseless death … a death that should not have occurred.” His mother said, “I’m angry at Northrop, because they do treat it like it’s a secret. And it is a dirty secret—because if they’d just been responsible, nobody would be dead.”
Northrop Grumman reports 104 fatal injuries in its rocket program since 1960.
Companies like this make the world safe for … profiteering.