On 3/12/2012 11:45 AM, Marv Gandall wrote: > > Any serious left would see these union activists as the > closest thing to a US working class "vanguard" which exists - > not when measured against their more independent and combative > forebears during the heroic period of the labour and socialist > movement, but in terms of their class and political > consciousness relative to other American workers today.
No more so than in 2008. And look what we got. Bush's 3rd term. > I don't propose to engage in another wearisome debate about the > Democrats. Suffice it to say that the willingness of these > hundreds of thousands of trade unionists to canvass for the > party is an indication that they think their unions and > benefits are still better protected under a Democratic rather > than a Republican administration, rather than that they're > mindless lemmings marching to the dictates of union and party > officials. I don't know if mindless is the right word, but I would say that any trade unionist who rings doorbells for Obama is wasting his or her time. The conditions are rotten-ripe for a break with the 2-party system and the AFL-CIO's efforts on behalf of Obama are best described as an anagram of the word above: a brake. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
