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A rank-and-file strategy to fight job cuts, war and dictatorship

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Will Lehman, rank-and-file candidate for UAW President
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Why I’m running for UAW President in 2026

The purpose of this campaign is to end the dictatorship of the Solidarity House bureaucracy, re-establish the needs of the rank and file as the purpose of the union, and mobilize the full industrial power of the membership to defend democratic rights.

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Title card reading “The fight for rank-and-file power” over a photo of UAW workers in red picket shirts holding “UAW ON STRIKE” signs with raised fists, with Will Lehman’s photo and name in the corner.

Watch: The fight for rank-and-file power and the international unity of the working class

UAW workers in red picket shirts carrying “UAW ON STRIKE” signs, marching across a crosswalk in front of an office building.

Full support to the Bradford White strike in Middleville, Michigan!

Will Lehman, a man with short reddish-brown hair and a mustache wearing a tan collared shirt, against a solid red background.

Don’t miss the deadline to vote for UAW president!

Will Lehman, wearing a straw hat and sunglasses, talking with a Toledo Jeep worker with long braided hair, outside the Stellantis Toledo Assembly Complex.

Toledo Jeep worker to Will Lehman: “None of the leaders up there are doing what they are supposed to be doing”

A crowd of workers walking together on a city street, led by a man in a yellow safety vest and orange hoodie.

What conditions do workers face this Labor Day?

Side-by-side portraits of Will Lehman, in a dark work jacket over a red flannel shirt, and Bogdan Syrotiuk, with long brown hair and a beard, in a denim jacket.

Free Bogdan Syrotiuk!

The collapsed, fire-damaged Brent Industries plant in Toledo, its roof caved in and walls torn open, with two crushed cars and piles of rubble in the foreground.

The fatal explosion at Brent Industries in Toledo: Two more workers killed for profit

Academic workers picket outside a brick and stone university building, carrying blue and white signs reading “UAW ON STRIKE — UNFAIR LABOR PRACTICE.”

Rank-and-file power, not union bureaucracy: A statement to UAW academic workers returning to campus

Six Lorain County JFS strikers holding blue and white “UAW On Strike” picket signs on a rainy roadside, several wearing rain ponchos and holding open umbrellas.

Support the Lorain County JFS strikers! Break the UAW’s isolation of their six-month struggle!

Five National Steel Car strikers sit together on camp chairs and a stone ledge beside a chain-link fence at the picket line in Hamilton, Ontario.

Support the National Steel Car strike! For class war, not trade war!

Columbia University postdocs and graduate workers picketing outside the campus gates on Broadway, carrying blue and white “UAW On Strike” signs, with Pulitzer Hall behind them.

Columbia postdocs voted 90 percent to strike. Set a strike deadline and build a rank-and-file committee!

Bogdan Syrotiuk, a young man with wavy brown hair and a beard wearing a denim jacket, smiling while seated on grass in a park, with a green metal fence, trees, and a Soviet-era apartment building behind him.

Free Bogdan Syrotiuk! Fifteen years in prison for calling on workers to unite against war

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Will Lehman

The bureaucracy can't be reformed. It must be abolished. Ready to build rank-and-file power?

Will Lehman for UAW President