The lie that Starmer’s pro-war, pro-genocide Labour Party can somehow be pressured into opposing Israeli policy is part and parcel of the unions’ refusal to organise mass strikes, which would immediately force a confrontation between the working class seeking to defend the Palestinians and the equally bitterly opposed Tory and Labour parties.
It is a grotesque lie for the UAW leadership to claim that it is advancing the cause of workers in the US while endorsing Biden, who is responsible for genocide in Gaza.
With its endorsement, the UAW bureaucracy is locking arms with the widely-hated war criminal in the White House who is coordinating Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
In an operation that was undoubtedly authorised at the highest levels of the state Labor government, more than 200 police were deployed against around a hundred peaceful protesters.