Throughout the strike and after, the DSA’s role was to provide left cover for the union leaders and the Democratic Party.

A Stalinist who denounced Leon Trotsky as an “agent of the Gestapo” was shielded from criticism by SWP speakers.

At its December 2024 conference, the SWP declared its aim to “hegemonise the left” through “a broad, pluralist umbrella formation of left independent candidates running under the same banner”.