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2025 will be a year of immense class struggle.

I am writing to ask that you make the largest donation possible to the World Socialist Web Site New Year Fund. 2025 will be a year of immense class struggle. We need your support to expand the coverage of the WSWS and utilize the newest technologies to provide workers with the information they need for the battles ahead. Donate now Your donation will be key to expanding the work of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC), which fights for workers to transfer power from the pro-company union bureaucrats to workers on the shop floor. Last year showed the increasing strength and influence of the IWA-RFC. During the two-month strike by 33,000 aerospace workers, the Boeing Rank-and-File Committee led the fight against the three sellout agreements signed by the International Association of Machinists. It fought to unite Boeing workers with striking Textron and Eaton aerospace workers in Kansas and Michigan. In the global automotive industry, rank-and-file committees at VW in Germany and at Stellantis in Detroit, Toledo and Kokomo organized to unite workers across borders against the worldwide jobs massacre. The committee of striking Dakkota workers in Chicago led the opposition to four UAW-backed sellout contracts and won support from Ford workers for a ban on scab parts. In Canada, postal workers formed a rank-and-file committee during their one-month strike to resist concessions and government-backed measures undermining their rights and working conditions. They won the support of postal workers in the US, the UK and other countries, along with UPS workers facing similar job attacks. Educators and health care workers in the US, Australia, Brazil, Turkey and other countries have responded to the IWA-RFC's campaign against the subordination of public education and health to corporate profit and war. In 2025, more workers will come into struggle, including workers on the docks, the railroads, in the  defense industry, in health care and in public and higher education. Trump and his government of oligarchs plan to deport immigrant workers, slash Social Security, Medicare and other vital programs and decimate public education to provide more tax cuts for the rich and fund more wars to grab resources and annex territory. This will provoke mass opposition from workers, including from those who voted for Trump. As the WSWS noted in its New Year's statement: "If there are any definitive lessons to be learned from modern history, it is that the levels of wealth inequality that now exist in the US and globally always produce social explosions. But history also demonstrates that these struggles cannot succeed without a clear program, organization and leadership." Substantial resources are required to build the IWA-RFC and the leadership needed for this struggle. The WSWS does not and never will take money from corporations or the union apparatus. We rely entirely on you, the readers of the WSWS and our workplace newsletters, for the resources we need. Donate today at wsws.org/donate, and consider setting up a monthly recurring donation to sustain our work.   Donate $5 Donate $25 Donate $100 Donate $500 Jerry White WSWS Labor Editor World Socialist Web Site We're powered by the support of our readers and workers. Make a contribution today to the World Socialist Web Site. This email was sent to alitealbum.wsws@blogger.com. If you want to, you can unsubscribe. We rely on your financial support and your participation. © Copyright 2024, World Socialist Web Site, wsws.org. All rights reserved.