Thousands of firefighters from across the United States and Canada joined family members and many concerned residents of Detroit last Friday, November 21, to mourn the death of Walter Harris a much-loved and admired 17-year member of the Detroit Fire Department. The World Socialist Web Site sent reporters to attend the funeral and speak to some of those who were there.
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.
On Thursday, November 13, the World Socialist Web Site sent reporters to Cobo Center in downtown Detroit to interview young workers and social workers attending the Detroit Poverty Summit about the dire conditions that are rapidly worsening in that city and across Michigan.
World Socialist Web Site reporter D'Artagnan Collier spoke to family members and a teacher of one of the victims of the fire in Highland Park, Michigan which killed four people on Wednesday, October 22.
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.
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.
On Friday, November 14, the World Socialist Web Site sent a team of reporters to Wilmington, Ohio,a small town with 12,000 residents. Many of them will lose their jobs when DHL shuts its operations there. Everyone is concerned about the impact of these losses and the domino effect at warehouses and other local businesses. Visit wsws.org
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.
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 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 in Detroit and Highland Park denounced the conditions of decay in these cities and the policies of utility monopolies in cutting off services to those who cannot pay for contributing to the tragic deaths of four people in a house fire here.
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
New York City taxi drivers speak to the WSWS on the impact of the skyrocketing price of gas. Cabbies pay all of their expenses from fares and the city government has refused an increase to reimburse them for gas price increases. Cabbies are paying $125.00 to $160.00 each week out of their own pockets in higher fuel costs.
The World Socialist Web Site sent a reporting team to Highland Park, Michigan, where a house fire killed four people in the early morning hours of Wednesday, October 22, 2008. Residents spoke to the WSWS about the terrible social conditions in the city.
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
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.
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 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 World Socialist Web Site interviewed workers and professionals in Detroit about the worsening social conditions as gas prices and food prices soar through the roof. In this clip, Larry Porter speaks with Barbara Johnson, a teacher.
Striking workers at American Axle and Manufacturing in Cheektowaga, New York spoke to the WSWS about their starting contract agreed to by the UAW and AAM?-roughly half the rate of pay of workers at the Tonawanda plant?-and their current struggle against company demands to slash their pay again.
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