UPDATE on David North - permanent GREAT LEADER of the Socialist Equality Party

From Amazon Union Drive to Hunts Point Teamster Strike How the “World Scab Web Site” Aids the Bosses [There it is, in your face, so stark that you can’t miss it: as we have repeatedly warned, the grotesquely misnamed World Socialist Web Site serves union-busting bosses against the unions. The (latest) proof: on January 15, an article posted on the “World Scab Web Site” calls to “Vote ‘No’ to the UFCW-backed union at Alabama Amazon facility!” So, acting in tandem with Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, the richest man in the world, the political bandits of David North’s WSWS are actively trying to prevent the organization of a union at the viciously anti-union e-commerce monopoly’s Bessemer, Alabama, warehouse. It’s far from the first time: the WSWS has likewise opposed unionization of auto parts plants in the past.1 Revolutionary socialists have a diametrically counterposed position: we say emphatically “yes” to unions, while fighting to forge a class-struggle leadership. North is listed as chairman of the International Editorial Board of the WSWS, as well as national chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP) and leader of an “International Committee of the Fourth International” (ICFI, one of three different groups that go by that name). In the late 1970s, his outfit, then called the Workers League, sponsored a lawsuit trying to get the bourgeois courts to oust the leadership of the Socialist Workers Party – just one of the grotesque and sinister operations for which “the Northites” became notorious. In recent decades, they have been obsessed with a number of bugbears. One is any recognition that systemic racism exists in the U.S. – that is, the fact that racist American capitalism structurally oppresses black people in particular, as it has since the days of slavery. The WSWS/SEP routinely labels any struggle against this special oppression “racialist,” a nefarious plot to divide the working class. Another special object of their ire is labor unions. This is no accident. In addition to his aforementioned titles, North was for years the Chief Executive Officer of Grand River Printing and Imaging, a multimillion-dollar non-union printing company in the Detroit, Michigan area. For the last three decades, North’s political mouthpieces have vituperated against unions, declaring them to be bourgeois (capitalist) institutions. Typically, the WSWS postures as a left-wing critic of the sellouts by the pro-capitalist union bureaucracy. That can fool some people until they look more closely. Behind that façade, these scab “socialists” actually side with the bosses in trying to destroy unions, the mass defensive organizations of the working class under capitalism. That was its role during the 2019 California teachers strikes in Los Angeles and Oakland, that’s what it did in the recent Hunts Point Market strike in New York and what it is doing now in opposing the union organizing drive in Bessemer.]