The WSWS interviewed Jim Lawrence, retired GM auto worker and Socialist Equality Party Vice Presidential Candidate in the 2004 elections on September 29, 2007. This is a video of portions of that interview. See http://www.wsws.org/ articles/2007/oct200 7/jiml-o09.shtml
Jerry White, presidential candidate of the Socialist Equality Party, spoke today on moves by the Federal Reserve to bail out Wall Street speculators while workers face deepening hardship. White called for the return of resources appropriated by the financial elite, and for the transformation of banks into democratically controlled utilities, as part of a socialist transformation of the economy.
Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate Jerry White speaks at the University of Illinois-Chicago. White presents a Marxist analysis of the economic crisis and elaborates a political perspective for the working class.
Officials of UAW Local 235 at American Axle in Detroit attempt to intimidate workers at a union meeting on Sunday to prevent them from reading a leaflet distributed by supporters of the World Socialist Web Site, which opposes the threat of a wage-cutting sellout by the union. The strike of two months is now among the longest by auto workers in more than three decades in the US.
Socialist Equality Party presidential candidate denounces Wall Street bailout and the support for it given by the Democratic Party. Jerry White declares that working people are being forced to pay the debts of the very people responsible for the economic crisis.
Socialist Equality Party candidate for president Jerry White denounces the stand of both Barack Obama and John McCain in the debate Tuesday night. White calls for socialist policies to answer the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression.
Jerry White reports for the WSWS from the American Axle picket lines in Detroit as the strike extends into a second month and AAM Chairman Richard Dauch threatens to hire replacement workers. Workers at Chrysler's Jefferson Avenue Assembly plant speak in defense of the strike against wage cutting and concessions.
Socialist Equality Party candidate for president, Jerry White went with a team of supporters to speak with workers at a crowded farmers market in downtown Detroit on Saturday, September 27. Many spoke with the World Socialist Web Site and contributed to the campaign.
The International Students for Social Equality held a demonstration in New York City on Saturday, February 16, 2008 to protest the arrest of over 40 left wing students by the government of Iran.
The WSWS interviewed workers on the picket line during the first day of their strike against American Axle & Manufacturing. For a report on the strike go to http://www.wsws.org/ articles/2008/feb200 8/axle-f27.shtml
Workers at UAW local 7 spoke to the WSWS at the contract vote on Sunday where they voted by a wide margin to reject the proposed agreement. Read coverage on the WSWS. http://www.wsws.org/ articles/2007/oct200 7/chr2-o22.shtml
The World Socialist Web Site discusses the issues with auto workers from Ypsilanti, Michigan in their strike against General Motors. More coverage can be found at http://www.wsws.org
The World Socialist Web Site spoke with striking American Axle & Manufacturing (AAM) workers, and Chrysler workers supporting their struggle, as the strike by 3,650 AAM workers at plants in Michigan and western New York enters in fourth week. For more information visit wsws.org.
While congress debated the $700 billion bailout of the Wall Street banks, the World Socialist Web Site spoke on the streets of New York to workers and young people who denounced the bailout of the banks and expressed a growing anger about the housing crisis, the loss of jobs and rising tuition for college.
The World Socialist Web Site interviewed Dwight Smith, director of Isaiah House, an emergency shelter in Santa Ana, California, about the rise in the number of homeless people, especially among the working poor.
The American Axle strike enters a tenth week. It will soon exceed the length of the historic strike against GM in 1970. This week workers circulated a petition to the UAW requesting an increase in strike pay from $200 per week to $300. The wsws spoke to workers on the picket lines in Detroit.
Striking writers speak to David Walsh of the World Socialist Web Site at a protest outside Disney Studios in Burbank, California on Wednesday morning, November 7. For more coverage see wsws.org
Jerry White reports for the WSWS from the American Axle picket lines in Detroit as the strike extends a full month. For more information visit wsws.org.
