Here is an article I wrote years ago about one local union's journey to international labor solidarity as an alternative to protectionism. Do we see any movement in this direction today?
On Sun, May 19, 2024 at 7:26 AM hari kumar via groups.io <hari6.kumar= gmail....@groups.io> wrote: > Hello Mark: > > Re: "But there are US jobs at stake, it's a presidential election year, > and I support the EV tariffs, particularly as the UAW is aggressively > organizing southern US car plants." > > The thing about protectionism and jobs in the domestic market of the > imperial power is tricky - is it not? > I think that my problems with it are: > i) It treats the buying working mass, as workers who in some way are > considered to "belong" to the domestic imperial powers; > ii) It subjects them - usually anyway - to unrestricted gouging from > foreign importers who would exert competitive pricing on that domestic > market. Indeed I think I saw some articles warning exactly of this imminent > shift. > iii) Usually at the same time as the imperial powers close down their "own > domestic market", they are demanding free entry of their own goods into > colonial-type countries. > iv) Ultimately it helps recruit the working class into the mentality of > the imperial capitalists. Does it not? It dilutes the perspective of the > working-class vs capitalists class warfare. > > I certainly understand the matter of unemployment rise potentially if > factories close down in the domestic home market. > The message has to involve pointing out that the capitalists gain - but > not necessarily the workers if prices go up; and that the central issue is > not jobs under capitalism, but moving to the socialist revolution. > > I realise this can be labelled as glib. But while the TU movement moves in > this type of economist thinking, is this what the socialist movement should > do? > > Just my tuppence worth anyway. > Be well, > H > > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#30399): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/30399 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/106146595/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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