Jerry White

Supporters of Will Lehman continue to spread the word about the campaign and counter the efforts of the UAW to keep members in the dark about the election, the right of all dues-paying UAW members—temp, retiree or full-time—to vote, as well as their right to information on the candidates in order to suppress the turnout. The UAW apparatus above all fears that Lehman’s campaign will win powerful support from younger workers, temp workers and lower tiered workers, who have been saddled with low pay and denied basic benefits and job protections.

Kentucky and Michigan Ford workers speak in support of campaign of Mack Trucks autoworker Will Lehman for UAW president A team of supporters recently visited the Ford Kentucky Truck Plant, where workers expressed their support for the fight Will Lehman is waging for...

The results in many House races remain very close, however, and control over the Senate will likely not be known for days. The narrowness of the margins and the length of time required to count all votes set the stage for a protracted period of crisis, with a potential for violence. Trump is falsely claiming that the Democratic Party is engaged in fraud in states like Arizona, where a technical glitch caused a delay in vote tabulation.

US 2022 Midterm Elections Live Updates: Initial midterm results show stagnating support for both parties Trump continues to incite fascist violence and cast doubt on election results as voters continue to cast their ballots around the country.

In a manner typical of a newspaper that has deceitfully propagandized for every US war of aggression over the past three decades, the Times shamelessly covered up Freeland’s personal and political ties to far-right and outright fascist forces in its November 4 report.

Who is Chrystia Freeland, Washington’s “prime candidate” for NATO Secretary-General? Freeland is being promoted by US imperialism to head the aggressive military alliance because she is a war hawk with extensive personal and...

The firing of the board and the option to convert shares into cash were accompanied by other critical details for the financial elite, including a plan to repay the company’s $13 billion in debt. While Musk has claimed his objective in taking private control of Twitter was “because it is important for the future of civilization,” and “to try and help humanity, whom I love,” news reports have made it clear that the financial performance of the business is his top priority.

On fourth day of his private ownership, Elon Musk fires Twitter board of directors Financial concerns have quickly overtaken the hollow statements by Elon Musk that his takeover of Twitter was motivated by his drive to preserve...

The fact that the massive funneling of arms into Ukraine by the US and NATO powers now requires the deployment of military personnel in Ukraine explodes the fiction that the US is not directly involved in the conflict, and is also revealing about the forces with which the US is allied.

Pentagon confirms deployment of active-duty military personnel in Ukraine In an extraordinary revelation Tuesday, US Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder admitted during an official briefing that active-duty US military...

The aim of the shift is to dramatically reduce physical border crossings on a scale not seen in decades, as well as to block asylum seekers from reaching US soil where the US Constitution applies. This right-wing shift exposes as lies the claim that US imperialism is a beacon for “democracy” and that its war against Russia has anything to do with “human rights.”

The Biden administration's war on refugees Behind the backs of the population, the Biden administration is implementing a dangerous and reactionary shift in immigrant policy and enforcing it...

The bill comes as the United States intensifies its involvement in its proxy war with Russia in Ukraine, while making it abundantly clear that it is seeking to provoke a war with China over Taiwan. In both conflicts, the type of long-range weapons being procured in massive quantities under the bill are seen as critical.

Senate bill gives Pentagon wartime procurement powers Leading senators have introduced a bill removing major peacetime limitations on arms purchases by the Pentagon and procuring missiles in wartime...

This savage police violence, intended to terrorize and discourage legal, constitutionally protected social protests, makes clear there is nothing to negotiate with Macron. His government, and the union bureaucrats who support his policies, are hostile to the workers and support policies of inflation, austerity and imperialist war that are impoverishing the working class. The way forward is to build a movement in the working class against austerity and war, in France and internationally, in an insurrection against the union bureaucracies.

French police assault workers marching against inflation and in support of refinery strike Over 300,000 workers and youth marched yesterday in France in a day of action protesting inflation and the Macron government’s attempts to crush a...

The inflationary spiral is the outcome of the actions of the capitalist ruling classes. The refusal of governments around the world to undertake public health safety measures to eliminate COVID-19 from the human population, lest they adversely impacted on the stock market, set off the supply chain crisis.

Wall Street cheers the prospect of mass unemployment Following a Bloomberg report that a US recession is virtually certain in the next 12 months, according to its economic model projections, stocks on...

The UAW is holding mass meetings on the UC campuses, ostensibly “to escalate the campaign for a fair contract.” In reality, these are chiefly being used as a means to let off steam. If the union officials were really seeking to escalate the campaign for a fair contract, it would obey the age-old maxim of “No Contract, No Work!”

University of California grad students demand higher pay and better conditions California graduate students spoke out on their fight decent working and living conditions and their support for Will Lehman's campaign for UAW...

Underscoring the deep socio-economic and political crisis roiling Iran, the protests have continued for three-and-a-half weeks in the face of brutal state repression. Exile groups report at least 185 deaths, and thousands of injuries and arrests. The government, which claims multiple deaths among security forces, has not updated its official death toll since September 21, when it was recorded at 41. Reports circulated yesterday that tanks were dispatched to several cities in Kurdistan province in northwest Iran, where the largest protests have taken place.

Workers walk out at Iranian petrochemical plants, amid ongoing nationwide anti-government protests Monday’s actions are the first sign of organised working-class involvement in the mass protests against Iran’s bourgeois-clerical regime that...

But ultimate responsibility for the escalation of the war lies with the United States and its imperialist allies. By encouraging Ukrainian plans to forcibly retake Crimea and join NATO, the US sought to instigate a war on Russia’s borders, first to “bleed Russia white” and ultimately to carry out a regime change operation and break up the country.

After Biden warns of “Armageddon,” NATO escalates war with Russia Just one day after President Joe Biden warned that the war in Ukraine threatens to trigger a nuclear “Armageddon,” Ukrainian special forces carried...

The Times, in a masterpiece of polite understatement, notes that “Mr. Biden’s references to Armageddon were highly unusual for any American president.” Not merely unusual, absolutely unique. Moreover, he did not explain what he was doing to avoid a catastrophe.

Biden warns: Prepare for nuclear Armageddon The New York Times reports that President Biden told a group of billionaires at a fundraising event last night:“We have not faced the...

Each of the nine disorder categories saw risks elevated, with the most substantial increase affecting cognition and memory disorders. Within the nine categories are included common conditions such as strokes, Alzheimer’s disease, headaches and seizures, Parkinson’s-like symptoms, anxiety and depression, dizziness, loss of smell and taste, as well as ringing in the ears. Each of these disorders can profoundly impact one’s quality of life.

COVID-19 infection significantly increases one’s risk of a neurological disorder A critical report from Washington University Medical School in St. Louis highlights the horrific neurological consequences associated with COVID...

While Ankara continues to sell armed drones to Ukraine and opposes Russia’s annexation of Crimea, it is also strengthening its economic and political ties with Moscow and does not participate in the US-led sanctions against Russia. In fact, it has recently faced accusations of violating sanctions through banks and some ports in Turkey.

US military buildup against Russia escalates Turkey-Greece tensions Washington’s plan to deploy naval forces to Alexandroupoli, a key port for the NATO war on Russia in Ukraine, is intensifying tensions between...

BP has a notorious record of sacrificing workers’ lives for corporate profit. In 2005, 15 workers were killed and another 180 injured in an explosion at its Texas City refinery. Investigators found that managers were pressuring workers to increase output and cut costs. In 2010, the BP Deepwater Horizon explosion killed 11 workers and caused a massive environmental disaster. Again, investigators found that cost-cutting contributed to the disaster.

The tragic death of two brothers at a BP refinery and America’s industrial slaughterhouse This week the grieving families and friends of Ben and Max Morrissey will bury the two brothers, who died in the September 20 fire at the BP-Husky...

Despite vast advances in mankind’s scientific understanding and technology over the past century, SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has proven to be the most devastating infectious disease since the 1918 influenza pandemic, which killed between twenty-five and fifty million people in the span of just two years. Government policies have been characterized by a staggering indifference to human life. In November 2020, the former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson blurted out, “No more f***ing lockdowns, let the bodies pile high in their thousands!” More recently, US President Joseph Biden declared in a television interview that the pandemic was over. On September 18, 2022, the day his statement was broadcast to a nationwide audience, there were, according to the New York Times, 61,712 official new infections and 464 deaths from COVID-19 in the United States.

COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic This is the introduction to Volume 1 of COVID, Capitalism, and Class War: A Social and Political Chronology of the Pandemic, a compilation...

As women are 14 times more likely to die from giving birth than from a safe, legal abortion, the reactionary ruling of the US Supreme Court in June, tearing away the constitutional right to abortion by overturning the 1973 landmark Roe v. Wade decision, is certain to increase the already abysmal maternal death rate.

CDC report: More than 80 percent of US maternal deaths are preventable More than four out of five maternal deaths in the United States are preventable, a shocking figure that has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The rail unions’ agreement of September 15, worked out behind our backs in the dead of night, is not only a betrayal of railroaders that seeks to enforce the Presidential Emergency Board report with only minor tweaks. It is also a flagrant violation of the democratic will of the membership and the bedrock principles of the labor movement. By their own actions, the bureaucrats that run the BLET, SMART-TD and the other 10 unions have shown that they don’t represent us, but the railroads, the government and Wall Street.

The rail unions have violated our rights. Organize the Railroad Workers Rank-and-File Network to countermand their betrayal! This statement was issued by the Railroad Workers Rank-and-File Committee, which has been established by railroad workers to organize and unify...

Wall Street had its biggest fall in two years yesterday on the back of data which showed inflation is becoming broad-based, despite a fall in gas prices, meaning that the US Federal Reserve is certain to continue its interest rate hikes. It could even accelerate them as it seeks to suppress workers’ wage demands by contracting the economy.

Wall Street slumps as inflation data signify continued Fed interest rate hikes All 30 stocks in the Dow fell as the index dropped by nearly 1300 points, the S&P 500 slid 4.3 percent and the tech-heavy and interest-rate...

The Railroad Workers Rank-and-File Committee is hosting a public meeting Wednesday, September 14, at 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time, “Organize to prepare for a national strike!” All railroaders and their supporters are urged to attend and register for the meeting here. To join or contact the committee, send an email to [email protected] or fill out the form at the bottom of this page.

Rail unions grovel to Congress, as Washington makes contingency plans ahead of Friday strike deadline With less than three days to go before the deadline for a national railroad strike, the rail unions are working desperately to work out a deal with...

The American ruling class, and the Biden administration in particular, is relying on the trade union apparatus to enforce contracts with wage increases that are far below the rate of inflation. Indeed, workers in trade unions have seen nominal wage increases that are significantly lower than for workers who are not in unions.

Surging cost of living in US drives class tensions to the breaking point The rise in living expenses--which has added $341 to a typical family’s monthly costs—is escalating class conflict in the United States and...

Characterized by distortions and cynical omissions about school safety, the event demonstrated once again that the US political establishment and its pillars in the trade union bureaucracy are entirely united in the demand that schools remain in-person. The true meaning of the “partnership” between the trade unions and the “pro-union” Biden administration is for the former to serve the latter by keeping workers in line and on the job.

Teachers unions, White House host town hall to demand in-person learning as school year starts US teachers unions and White House held a school reopening town hall to cover up the danger of COVID-19 in schools and demand schools remain fully...

The so-called “new economic era” with its “difficult beginning” is nothing but a new round of savage austerity measures to make workers and poor pay for the country’s unprecedented economic crisis.

IMF announces preliminary bailout loan agreement with Sri Lanka Working class must prepare its counteroffensive against the government’s austerity drive relying on its own class methods and rallying the rural poor.

The ongoing crisis in Jackson is part of a series of disasters in the US, from rolling blackouts in California to routine power outages in Metro Detroit and the water poisoning in Flint. Under conditions where climate change is fueling extreme weather events and pandemics, systematic planning is needed to meet the danger. However, this challenge is met with indifference by the capitalist governments.

Jackson, Mississippi’s water disaster is a crime of capitalism The current disaster has been years in the making and was preceded by systemic failures as the city’s public water infrastructure became the target...

The community spread of vaccine-derived virus has been identified in the recent episodes in Israel, the UK, and the US, as has been confirmed by genetic assay. Since systematic wastewater testing, which could provide early warning of a new outbreak, has largely been eliminated in many countries to reduce cost, and vaccination programs have been inconsistent, leaving pockets with low rates of vaccination, especially since the spread of COVID-19, the terrain is ripe for the “vaccine-derived” disease to spread.

The same criminal “profits before lives” response by capitalism to COVID-19 and monkeypox is allowing the resurgence of polio Years of negligence and underfunding have created the current conditions under which a dread disease that causes severe, lifelong paralysis and...

At this year’s Jackson Hole meeting, held in conditions of rampant inflation, Powell set the stage for the response, taken up by all participants, insisting that central banks must not waver from interest rate hikes and, if necessary, go beyond the measures carried out by Fed chair Paul Volcker in the 1980s, which produced economic devastation in the US and internationally for the working class, under the banner of “fighting inflation.”

Structural shifts in global economy driving central bankers’ class war program At this year’s Jackson Hole meeting, Fed chair Powell set the stage for the response, taken up by all participants, that central banks must not...

For 19 months following the coup attempt, the Democrats have downplayed the danger and attempted to absolve the Republican Party and military-intelligence apparatus of any blame. Now, nine weeks before the midterm elections in which Trump candidates are heading the Republican ticket, Biden announces that the danger is greater than ever. He would not be making a rare primetime address, with Independence Hall as his backdrop, if his administration did not feel that it was confronting a political crisis of unprecedented proportions.

Biden to address nation on threat of fascism On Thursday, Joe Biden will deliver a national address from Philadelphia in which he will tell the country that “our democracy is at stake.” But...