UAW President Fain at the White House dinner: The corporatist alliance for World War III
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United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain attended a state dinner for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, signaling an escalation of economic and military conflict with China. Fain's participation exposes the social function of the UAW bureaucracy and its collaboration with mass layoffs. The union bureaucracy plays a critical role in disciplining the working class on the 'home front' and ensuring the production and deployment of military equipment. The visit highlights the growing militarization and military alliances aimed at countering China's economic growth. The US is seeking to develop a corporatist alliance between the union bureaucracy, capitalist state, and major corporations to mobilize American society for war. The UAW is helping carry out a modern-day version of the 'no-strike pledge' by representing workers in munitions factories producing weapons for Ukraine and Israel. The union bureaucracy's collaboration with the state and corporations is a fundamental tendency in the era of imperialism. The presence of Fain at the reception for the Japanese prime minister is ironic given the UAW's past racist campaign against Japanese vehicles. The American trade unions also serve as mercenaries for US imperialism in Mexico and Latin America. Pseudo-left forces like the Democratic Socialists of America and Jacobin provide legitimacy to the union bureaucracy. The corporatist alliance aims to suppress the growth of socialism in the working class. Only through a mass working class movement and socialist internationalism can World War III be halted.

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