On Jun 8, 2012, at 5:07 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > However, and I'll > be brutal about it, the people who can really change the unions for > good (or create unions anew that bypass the old ones, which would be > another approach to make the old unions irrelevant) are the workers at > their respective workplaces.
But there's also this important point, made by Sam Gindin: > Very good response; I think you are right on re labour. The one thing I’d > add, and I think it is very significant, is that this crisis in labour > overlaps with the crisis on the left. I’m convinced that any renewal in > labour won’t happen until there is an organized left with feet inside and > outside labour - and even then it would have to be a left of a particularly > creative kind. Which raises the unavoidable question of what we do to create > such a left if neither the unions nor the democratic party are sites to make > this happen and the notion of this happening through the old Leninist > structures seems no less of a dead-end. THIS is the challenge that needs > taking on.... _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
