2009/3/16 Valmiki Faleiro <[email protected]>: > I endorse Dr. Babita Angle's view. Such fringe lunatics must be > prevented -- as when, some decades ago, Goa stood together > to stop Dr. Datta Samant's foray into Goa's trade unionism. I only hope a > well-regarded professional like Dr. Babita will take > the lead to form a core group and take the idea further.
In Dr Datta Samant's case, it was the Goan industrialists who stood together! Class interests are of course thicker than blood, which in turn is thicker than water! Whatever one might say about the late Dr Samant's style of functioning, his shoot-from-the-hip style of negotiations, and his role in the deadly and gamble-that-didn't-pay-off historic Bombay textile strike... the fact of the matter is that he delivered results for the workers. Even if "results" was sometimes judged entirely in terms of non-ideological, take-the-money-and-run rupee results. I recall the panic that "Doctorsaheb's" entry into Goa caused, including among a tyre factory, and how a section of the media was used to discredit him. More background on him here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datta_Samant FN -- FN * http://fredericknoronha.wordpress.com M +91-9822122436 P +91-832-2409490 http://twitter.com/fn On Facebook: http://www.new.facebook.com/people/Frederick-Noronha/502514643 "Man was predestined to have free will." - Hal Lee Luyah
