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"A week ago, Oaklandsocialist wrote an article on how Ironworkers Local 86 was supporting Amazon against the homeless in Seattle. We sent it to Chris McClain, business manager of Ironworkers Local 86. We received the letter below from McClain – or at least we assume it was from him. It’s not signed, but it came from his e mail address. "Most of the reply is a long “rags-to-riches” tale by McClain. This is the typical kind of thing that the capitalists themselves like to talk about. “Anybody who works hard and applies themselves can make it in America,” is the moral. So, before McClain took the side of Amazon and Corporate America in practice. Now, he’s doing it in the realm of ideas.... "Instead of demonstrating to boost the profits of one of the richest companies in the world – Amazon – building trades workers should be organizing to picket Amazon all across the country as a way of pressuring them to pay up." See full article here: https://oaklandsocialist.com/2018/05/15/seattle-ironworkers-mcclain-responds/ -- *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black Jacobins" by C. L. R. James Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
