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On 4/29/18 11:54 PM, Ken Hiebert via Marxism wrote:
Spring antiwar actions protest U. S. Bombing of Syria https://socialistaction.org/2018/04/27/spring-antiwar-actions-protest-u-s-bombing-of-syria/ <https://socialistaction.org/2018/04/27/spring-antiwar-actions-protest-u-s-bombing-of-syria/> "I would add that another factor explaining the very modest turnout is the virtual absence of the organized labor movement. Incapable of defending its own interests, not to mention the interest of workers under attack by imperialism in other countries, the terribly bureaucratized, pro-capitalist and often corrupt labor fakers contributed nothing to this worthy national effort, that included a major focus on defending working people in every aspect of social life.” By way of comparison, what was the attitude of the organized labour movement at the beginning of the Vietnam protests? It is my impression that the labour movement of that time was just as bureaucratic and just as slow to respond to the war.
Mackler wrote: "Lombardo also pointed to the unfortunately still-divided U.S. antiwar movement, but noted that this was a minor factor and that the April actions had the broadest backing in recent years, with some 500 organizations on board in support of the mobilization’s key demands."
I am not sure what this means. What divisions? The currently constituted antiwar movement in the USA, which means ANSWER and UNAC,share identical Assadist views. It is antiwar in the sense that it gets its knickers in a twist when Trump sends a bunch of missiles into Syria to blow up some buildings but never lifts a finger to oppose Assad bombing his country into oblivion. They argue that their responsibility is to oppose American intervention but by that criterion the bombing of Mosul and Raqqa against ISIS has never gotten them off their duffs.
A principled antiwar movement would have opposed all wars but the crypto-Stalinism of the PSL, the WWP and Mackler's sect ruled that out in advance.
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