>Sunday’s results are, above all, a devastating verdict on the perspective advanced by the PT and the pseudo-left organizations that support it: that fascism could be defeated through an alliance with the rotten bourgeois political establishment. Far from defeating the threat of fascism, the “Broad Front” promoted by the PT has only strengthened it.
It's good to see this case getting attention. It so clearly demonstrates the right-wing character of the NATO war in Ukraine.
A UAW bureaucrat making over $200,000 a year posted death threats against Will Lehman, the socialist candidate for UAW president. Ray Jensen was a featured speaker at the 2024 Labor Notes conference and member of UAWD. A damning exposure of the union bureaucracy and the pseudo-left promoting them.
This short piece by Trotsky, has the excellent quotation of Lenin:
>Unity with opportunists is the alliance of workers with their own national bourgeoisie and signifies a split in the ranks of the international revolutionary working class.
I have yet to find a more succinct refutation of the nationalism underlying the pseudo-left's orientation to nationalist bureaucrats and politicians.
Honestly the best news I've heard all week. It's been great watching Will and the WSWS take the fight to these union bureaucrats.
>Rank-and-file socialist autoworker Will Lehman, a Mack Trucks worker from Macungie, Pennsylvania, was nominated for president of the United Auto Workers Wednesday at the union’s Constitutional Convention in Detroit. He was nominated by two delegates, the maximum allowed.
>Nominating Lehman were Charles Coneeny, president of UAW Local 1821 in Ocala, Florida, which represents workers at the Lockheed Martin facility in the area, and Tamika Foster, chairperson for UAW Local 2145, representing Blue Cross Blue Shield workers in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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>“This campaign is directed against that apparatus,” Lehman said. “It is about the fight to transfer power from the bureaucracy that has dominated this union to the rank and file, to the workers on the shop floor.”
>Lehman added that the campaign “has never been about getting me into Solidarity House. It is about building a genuine rank-and-file movement, a movement that turns every factory into a citadel of resistance and carries the fight from the factories into the neighborhoods, the schools and every community where working people live and struggle.”
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>Thomas, a Stellantis Sterling Heights Assembly worker, said, “Will’s campaign showed everybody where the union is going and what it would do. In the conversation I had with him, I had differences with him, but with the way the convention went Will predicted everything. It’s going to take a big fight, but Will has many supporters that he doesn’t know he has.
>“The convention showed we have a dictatorship in the UAW. The IEB got 100 percent of its resolutions passed, and no locals got theirs passed. Will called a spade a spade before anyone saw the spade.
>“The rank and file has to take the power from the apparatus. We have to get rid of these International and regional officials who are selling us out. At Stellantis people are committing suicide because of working conditions while the company makes backroom deals with the International UAW. GM hires and fires, and Ford too. We need decent wages. Right now we’re living on the bare minimum. Then we got Trump and war and dictatorship.
>“Will has to keep his head up and keep fighting, and we’ll give him all the support he needs.”