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Socialist Equality Party candidate for US Vice President in 2024. Labor Editor of the World Socialist Web Site.

Detroit, Michigan
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Jerry White
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I and @jkishore are running as the Socialist Equality Party's candidates in the 2024 presidential election to give voice to mass opposition to war & dictatorship. No support for "Genocide Joe" and his apologists! Break with the Democrats! Learn more:
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University of Texas students chanting “You don’t scare us” and “Get off our campus” to state troopers sent by Gov. Abbott with support of Biden and Democrats. But students can’t defeat the state on their own or on the campuses. They must turn to the working class to defend their…
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Workers must mobilize to defend anti-genocide protesters in Texas and around the US. #UTAustin #socialism2024
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Faculty walked out at University of Texas to defend UT students against arrests and repression. Even larger protests today against US backed genocide in Gaza. #UTAustin #socialism2024
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I spoke with a University of Texas Austin student about the suppression of anti-genocide protests and mobilizing the working class against imperialist war abroad and state repression at home #UTAustin # #Socialism2024
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State police dispatched by Texas Governor Abbottt arrested and attacked students at the University of Texas Austin. This is an attempt to criminalize all opposition to the genocide in #Gaza . Workers must come to the defense of students!
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I'm at a protest against the genocide at the University of Texas, Austin, explaining the need to take the fight against war into the working class. I urge all students to attend our meeting at 4pm Central Time at Austin Community College, Highland Campus, Building 2000, Rm 1410
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Detroit autoworkers speak out in defense of protesting students. Workers must take industrial action to stop police state measures and shut down the US-Israeli war machine. #gaza #socialism2024
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Workers must defend students against police state measures
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American workers have a rich history of class struggle and international socialism. SEP presidential candidate @jkishore and I will give a voice to the striving by the working class to end war, social inequality, and dictatorship. Become a part of history. Support Kishore-White…
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@jkishore Right now, I am in Austin, Texas discussing the socialist strategy in the fight against war and austerity. Our campaign needs your financial support to ensure we can spread our message throughout the US. Click here to donate today: 👇
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State troopers threatening anti-genocide protesters at University of Texas at Austin
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As part of my campaign tour of Virginia, I visited Monticello, the long-time home of Thomas Jefferson, Enlightenment thinker, author of the Declaration of Independence, and third American president. The Socialist Equality Party stands in this election to defend and to expand the…
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I spoke at the #Flint school board meeting last night, calling for billions for education instead of war. #Teachers , students and the working class must fight for a #socialist program- follow my campaign at
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Detroit worker: “I’m opposed to these great kids being locked up for exercising their right to free speech.” Mobilize the working class to defend anti-genocide protesters! #gaza #socialism2024 Join us for rally
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A very good exposé of @jimmydoreshow Boogaloo guest by reporter @mattbinder The fight in the working class for socialism means exposing the reactionary character of flirting with fascists
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I spoke at the Wayne-Westland school board meeting Thursday night where educators are facing $17 million in budget cuts. Unite educators across Michigan, the US and internationally. Trillions for public education, jobs and other social rights of the working class, not war!
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Tuesday’s collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore and the death of at least six workers is a disaster that exposes the real state of American capitalism. The corporate and government officials whose negligence led to this disaster must be held fully accountable…
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Last Thursday, March 21, I addressed teachers, school bus drivers and other educators at a school board meeting in the Wayne-Westland, about 30 miles outside of Detroit. The board's CFO had just presented a series of financial figures to bolster its demands to lay off 100…
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Virtually every word out of Biden’s mouth about autoworkers, jobs and the UAW during the State of the Union was a lie. He referred to an idled Stellantis Jeep factory in Belvidere, Illinois, and claimed: “The UAW worked like hell to keep the plant open and get those jobs back.…
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Stellantis autoworkers in Detroit speak out in defense of student protesters “It breaks my heart to see the police arresting students at the universities. At Columbia, they renamed the hall after a little Palestinian girl who was killed. The students are expressing their rights…
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I was in Ann Arbor, Michigan on Thursday, March 4, to defend anti-genocide protesters defying the University of Michigan's Democratic Party run administration, which is trying to strip them of their First Amendment rights and silence them #socialism2024
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Strong support for socialist campaign in Indiana #socialism2024
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Thank you to the 1,500 people who have followed my account over the past week. On May 4, the World Socialist Web Site will host the May Day 2024 rally. Join workers and young people from around the world at this critical event. Sign up to attend today!
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As vice presidential candidate of the Socialist Equality Party #socialism2024 , I fully support the stand taken by teachers today in Flint, Michigan. I call on educators and all workers across Michigan, the US and internationally to support their fight against poverty wages,…
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I visited the site of the Francis Scott Key Bridge disaster in Baltimore, where six immigrant workers were killed on March 26. In capitalist America, antiquated bridges collapse, thousand of teachers are laid off and Biden ends Covid relief funding for schools. Meanwhile, both…
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Stellantis temporary workers who were fired after being told they would be converted to full-time positions under the supposedly "record contract" signed by the United Auto Workers bureaucracy last fall, protested at the UAW headquarters on Saturday. The SEP encourages all…
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In New Orleans today, I spoke with a Tulane University student who denounced the bipartisan war funding bill for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, and the proposed ban on TikTok.
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Michigan State University student denounces US-backed genocide in Gaza supports #socialist2024 campaign as alternative to “candidates with blood on their hands.”
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Israel, with the support of US imperialism, has killed over 35,000 people in Gaza. Genocide is being normalized. Tomorrow, I will be speaking at Detroit's Wayne State University on the socialist strategy to oppose war and genocide. Share and attend this critical meeting!
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At the scene of Monday's explosions at a vape supply facility in suburban Detroit that resulted in a 19-year-old youth losing his life. The SEP candidates for president and vice president #socialism2024 call for rank-and-file committees of workers to ensure workplace safety, and…
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As the Socialist Equality Party’s candidate #socialism2024 for vice president in the 2024 election, I denounce the anti-immigrant police-state measures of the Trump and Biden administrations, which these capitalist politicians are celebrating at today’s dual events at the border.…
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While in Southhampton County, Virginia, I visited the site where, in 1831, Nat Turner led the most significant slave uprising in US history. The revolt was a link in a chain that witnessed the development of a mass political movement—a movement that subjected slavery to a…
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Meat packing worker in Kokomo, Indiana denounces Biden’s support for Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza #socialism2024
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Tens of thousands of grad student workers in the University of California system have taken the courageous and absolutely necessary step of voting to take strike action to defend students against the crackdown on anti-genocide protests. I call on Local 4811 members to urge UAW…
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8-year-old coal miners in Afghanistan: the consequences of 20 yrs of US occupation: "I went home and there was nothing to eat"
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In an effort to burnish his “pro-worker” credentials, Biden invited his favorite bureaucratic lackey, UAW President Shawn Fain, to the State of the Union. Biden referred to him as “a great friend, and a great labor leader.” Fain stood up and absurdly tried to strike a militant…
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I’ll be speaking at a public event at George Mason University Monday night and urge DC area workers and youth to attend. I look forward to discussing the SEP presidential campaign and our fight to mobilize the working class against war, inequality and dictatorship #socialism2024
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As the World Socialist Web Site warned, the only thing that would change with the installation of Shawn Fain in the UAW headquarters would be the size of his paycheck (now $228K for less than a year as president). Financial assets of UAW rose in 2023 as bureaucracy pushed…
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Emergency physicians walked out on strike Thurs., April 18, to fight understaffing and outsourcing at Ascension St. John Hospital just outside Detroit. I spoke with striking clinicians about the SEP's fight to mobilize the working class politically to end profit-driven health…
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Hundreds attended memorial for two brothers killed at Ohio BP refinery
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As vice presidential candidate for the Socialist Equality Party, I support the fight of the 500 teaching assistants and fellows, research assistants and associates, course assistants and tutors at The New School in New York City. I urge rank-and-file workers to reject the sellout…
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SEP brings socialist campaign to Indiana, birthplace of Eugene Debs! Read about our March 30 campaign stop at
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Grocery prices up 20%, credit card and household debt at record levels, tens of thousands losing jobs, and plans to make the working class pay for war-that’s Biden’s capitalist economy #StateOfTheUnion
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Clarios workers report they voted down second UAW-backed contract by 80%
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As SEP vice presidential candidate #socialism2024 , I support the stand taken by Stellantis workers against the brutal firing of 341 supplemental (temporary) workers at the Toledo Jeep assembly plant. On Monday afternoon, hundreds of full-time workers called off of work to oppose…
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A new survey from Assurance IQ, found that 44 percent of Gen Z-ers said they had skipped a meal in order to pay their monthly bills. Both corporate parties find endless money for war while denying the working class livable wages and health care. I urge The New School academic…
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"It is an international struggle": Fired Stellantis temp worker speaks out at protest in front of UAW headquarters Saturday against unjust terminations. Unite workers across borders, build the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees
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During the March 21 school board meeting in Wayne-Westland, just outside of Detroit, Board Trustee David Cox provocatively attacked teachers and school bus drivers for interrupting the board's plans to lay off 100 employees, privatize student transportation and gut educational…
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Scientist says the change in CDC guidelines: "goes against the science, encourages disease spread, and prioritizes corporate interests, making it easier to exploit workers.” CDC urges actively infectious COVID-19 patients to return to work and school …
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The cost of Biden’s expanding wars will be imposed on the working class. Everything from public education to Social Security will be targeted #SOTU #socialism2024
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In opposition, to Biden and the Democrats, who have paved the way for Trump's election, the SEP #socialism2024 candidates for US president and vice president are fighting to build a powerful politically independent movement of the working class against the decaying capitalist…
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Clarios workers reject 2nd UAW sellout contract, call for united fight with Big 3 autoworkers
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The only social force that has both the strength and the social imperative to oppose imperialist war is the world working class. #socialism2024 Biden’s budget for world war
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Barnett’s death recalls the murder of Karen Silkwood: Boeing whistleblower, found dead last week, told family friend, “If anything happens to me, it’s not suicide.”
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The capitalist jobs bloodbath continues to accelerate with 50,000 tech workers being hit by the job cuts since the beginning of the year, the highest number since the bubble burst in 2001. The S&P index hit a record high last Tuesday, the same day IBM…
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High school youth in Dearborn, MI joined me for a photo. They say students will be joining #MayDay protests against US-backed #Gaza genocide. For more updates on SEP #socialism2024 presidential campaign, go to: Attend the International May Day 2024 Online…
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Kokomo, Indiana meat packing worker describes the war on the working class #socialism2024
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On Monday, March 18, a worker was killed after being pinned underneath a forklift on Terminal Island at the port of Los Angeles. The still unnamed worker is one of the latest victims of America’s industrial slaughterhouse. In America, one worker is killed on the job every 96…
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Hands off Dr. Peter Daszak! For science and reason, not medievalism.
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I spoke with a nursing student at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia who denounced the repression of anti-genocide protesters and supported the Socialist Equality Party's demand to take profit out of medicine. #socialism2024 See coverage of the campaign at:…
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The announcement by Ford that it is slashing more than a thousand jobs at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center (REV-C) is a brutal and outrageous attack on workers’ livelihoods that must be opposed. It is a further exposure of the lies of UAW President Shawn Fain and President…
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American democracy is on its last legs. It cannot survive on the basis of capitalism. Support SEP campaign for US president #socialism2024
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Please read and share the Perspective I wrote on today's @WSWS_Updates about the Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of the January 6 insurrectionists. WSWS articles are actively censored in search results by Google and other platforms. Help circulate them!
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The decision by UPS executives to close 200 facilities, eliminate shifts and slash thousands of jobs must be opposed by UPS workers and the whole working class. If carried out, this jobs massacre will have devastating consequences for workers and their communities: more broken…
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NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy said there are 17,468 "fracture critical" bridges in the US like the Key Bridge that collapsed. If one weight bearing column or pier fails “it would likely cause a portion of or the entire bridge to collapse," she said, adding that all new bridges…
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Young worker in Kokomo, IN denounced Israeli genocide: "It's not right we're spending money on a war that we don't want to be in"
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I asked a striking ER physician in Detroit what would happen if the unstaffed hospital was overwhelmed with Covid infections again or victims of a mass casualty event? #socialism2024
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After selling out autoworkers and endorsing Genocide Joe, UAW President Shawn Fain is a guest of honor at tonight’s Biden State of Union address. Support the SEP campaign #socialism2024 against both corporate parties of war, social inequality and reaction
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As the Socialist Equality Party’s candidate for US vice president #socialism2024 , I call on teachers, school workers, parents, and students to fight for a massive increase in public education funding and to stop the squandering of society’s resources on war and repression. On…
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I attended the May 3rd funeral service in Detroit for Tywaun Long, a 46-year-old Ford worker who collapsed from a reported heart attack at the Dearborn Truck Plant on April 17. Conditions inside the factories are unbearable. See the WSWS article on the funeral at:…
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The Socialist Equality Party is intervening in the US elections in order to advance an internationalist, socialist program among workers. We are fighting to mobilize the international working class in a political movement against both reactionary capitalist parties. We are…
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The Socialist Equality Party calls for the expropriation of the billionaires and a radical redistribution of wealth #socialism2024 #SOTU
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Workers need rank-and-file committees to break the corporate dictatorship in the factories and the conspiracy by the UAW bureaucracy and the Biden administration to suppress opposition to capitalist exploitation and war. UAW files for union vote at Chattanooga Volkswagen…
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A la Jimmy Dore, in 2000 Ralph Nader sought an alliance with the fascist Pat Buchanan. Green Party leaders claimed the struggle of socialism vs. capitalism had been overtaken by the fight to defend national sovereignty vs. globalism.
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Congratulations, Comrades! For a united struggle by the working class for international socialism #socialism2024 . Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei submits over 4,000 signatures for its candidacy in the 2024 European elections
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Vancouver, Washington high school students walked out last week to protest 250 teacher layoffs. A student sign demands "Fund School Not War" just days before Biden signed a bipartisan spending bill that includes a record $886 billion for war, including the reckless nuclear…
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An exercise in deception and political reaction. Begins with warmongering against Russia, conceals the danger of nuclear war, paints a rosy picture of the dire economic and social conditions, appealed to Trump to join him in attacking immigrants, and defends Israel’s genocide.…
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Sign the petition to free courageous socialist fighting for unity of Ukrainian and Russian workers against war. International support builds for campaign demanding Ukraine release socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
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The New York City home health aides, who recently engaged in hunger strike, have shown tremendous courage and justified anger in their fight to abolish 24-hour shifts. They deserve the support of all workers. But bitter experience has shown that appeals to the Democrats are…
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On Tuesday, March 12, Biden held an hour-long meeting with the Teamsters bureaucracy, as part of the union’s series of “candidate roundtables” at its Washington, DC headquarters. Regardless of whether the Teamsters choose to endorse Trump or Biden, the interests of the working…
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The war abroad is at the same time a war against workers at home. Last week, @jkishore and myself spoke with autoworkers at Warren Truck in Detroit, Michigan, about the #GazaGenocide , #inflation , the attacks on workers living standards and the need for a socialist perspective.
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"No more profits over patients!" Striking emergency physician at Ascension St. John just outside Detroit discusses the universal issues at stake in their battle #socialism2024
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Mass strikes in Egypt this week. In Nigeria, Africa's largest country, workers are on a two-day national strike after gasoline prices doubled and inflation hit a three-decade high of 30%. Support the SEP presidential campaign #socialism2024 to unite US workers with workers around…
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@greenhousenyt Whatever modest wage increases workers got--after years of union-backed concessions--is being made up through mass job cuts in auto, UPS and other industries. Overall, the union bureaucracy, working closely with Biden, have continued to suppress wages. BLS reports that unionized…
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@UAW @majorityfm This is an out and out fraud. Fain and Sanders are promoting the lie that the best Congress menu can buy will grant workers a shorter workweek, while Fain dropped the demand during his phony “stand up” strike like a hot potato. Only the independent mobilization of the working…
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The strike by Detroit area emergency physicians at Ascension St John reveals the irreconcilable conflict between medical professionals’ oath to provide quality care and a medical system subordinated to profit #Socialism2024
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The Democratic president who wants to prosecute Julian Assange under the Espionage Act and who joins Trump on the border to push the most reactionary anti-immigrant legislation in history claims he is upholding democracy #StateoftheUnion
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Toledo Jeep workers back Clarios strikers
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I issued the following statement re. the ongoing unionization vote at the VW plant in Chattanooga, TN: Workers want to organize and fight. They understand that collective action is needed to defend themselves. But to fight for their class interests they must organize…
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“Whatever you think of these kids, these students, no one wants them dead,” former Assistant Secretary for Homeland Security just told CNN in a chilling warning to anti-genocide protesters at Columbia University #gaza #socialism2024
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Young mother who works at meatpacking plant describes dire economic conditions in Kokomo, Indiana during SEP campaign stop. See for full coverage
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