Thread by @DavidNorthWSWS

.@DSA leaders are incensed by @EricLondonSEP's exposure of the RWDSU's Amazon debacle and the duplicity of AOC. Trying to disorient honest DSA members, they vilify the SEP/WSWS's opposition to the Democrats and union bureaucracy as anti-labor. 1/

The authors of these slanders [like .@TheDuhalde] have no history of involvement in any struggles of the working class. They have built their opportunist careers within, and as agents of, American capitalism's vast institutional superstructure of class oppression. 2/

Many of the leaders of the SEP (formerly the Workers League), who also write for the WSWS, have an extensively documented history of direct involvement in the struggles of the working class (within the US and internationally), that spans between four and five decades. 3/

The Workers League [WL] played a leading role in many of the major labor struggles of the 1970s and 1980s, which invariably developed in opposition to the treachery of the AFL-CIO. Between 1974 and 1978, the WL successfully led opposition to United Mine Workers sell-outs. 4/

Isolated and betrayed by the national AFL-CIO, militant workers turned to the Workers League for support. The WL led the resistance of PATCO controllers and Phelps Dodge copper miners to the betrayals of their unions. 5/

While national secretary of the Workers League, I worked closely with the heroic leaders of the Arizona copper miners, Lalo Marquez and Dr. Jorge O'Leary, who opposed the betrayal carried out by the United Steel Workers. 6/

Air traffic controller Ron May, who opposed Reagan and went to prison for three months in 1981, joined the Workers League. We campaigned to rally support for 11,000 PATCO strikers, who had been fired by Reagan and abandoned by the AFL-CIO. 7/

Ron joined me in June 1984 at a rally in Clifton-Morenci on June 30, 1984 to mark the first anniversary of the Phelps Dodge strike. [Left to Right: Marquez, O'Leary, North, and May] 8/

In the late afternoon of June 30, hundreds of heavily armed Arizona state troopers and national guardsmen launched a violent attack on copper miners and their families, who had been peacefully demonstrating. I was able to document the attack with photographs. 9/

The cowardly bureaucrats of the RWDSU and their DSA toadies who claim that the union was defeated because of Amazon's "brutal" anti-union campaign have never been involved in a real labor struggle and have no idea what real class struggle in the US looks like. 10/

This is what cops and scabs did to Phelps Dodge striker Larry Gonzales. It took him months to recover from the brutal beating he received at their hands. After three years of struggle, the strike was lost. 2000 strikers were replaced by scabs. The AFL-CIO let it happen. 11/

Those who want to know more about the labor warfare US style should read my first-hand account of the copper miners' strike, written in 1983, titled: "Class War at Phelps Dodge" 12/

The SEP and WSWS embody a long history of working class struggle, that is rooted in the fight that has been waged by the Trotskyist movement against capitalism, the big business political parties, and their agents in the trade union bureaucracies. 13/

Read the WSWS. Study our history! Those who are serious about the fight to win the working class to socialism should contact the Socialist Equality Party. wsws.org/join
"Class War at Phelps Dodge" can be purchased at mehring.com 14/14