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Rank-and-file committees must form the basis for teachers to link up with the growing movement against war, and with other educators facing massive cuts to school budgets.

The recent tour of the US by officials of the CSP-Conlutas union federation served to integrate it into support for the emerging US war against Russia and China.

“The UAW has allocated $40 million for organizing and is looking to organize other plants in the South as well. The union must become larger and stronger if it is to confront the industry as it makes the transition to electric vehicles. The union has organizing drives under way at a Hyundai plant in Montgomery, Alabama and Toyota Motor in Troy, Missouri.”

Any historical appraisal of Bridges, the most notable Stalinist labor official in US history, raises important historical questions for workers today.

The UAW unionization drive has received the blessings of the Biden administration, which is seeking to use the unions to control and stifle social opposition to war and austerity.

Mancilla, a former official from the Harvard grad student union, is attempting to get out in front of the anti-war sentiment. He played a leading role in passing a UAW ceasefire resolution in December. But that remained a dead letter, and the UAW endorsed Biden only weeks later, with Mancilla in attendance.

Unions are helping to fund far-left campus activists.

Chicago For decades the Labor Notes conference, organized around the slogan “put the ‘movement’ back in the labor movement,” has attracted union activists who want to do just that. This year’s conference, held in Chicago on April 19-21, drew a record 4,500 attendees. Many more workers, who could not attend…

The miserable tentative contract agreement at Daimler Truck has been hailed by Biden and leading Democrats as another supposed “historics” win for workers

In the “historic” 2023 contract the UAW lifted all restrictions on management’s right to impose mandatory overtime, including seven-day operations.