This seems like a significant move in the right direction: Dems bet on $12 minimum wage http://thehill.com/policy/finance/other/241019-dems-bet-on-push-for-12-min-wage-ahead-of-2016
Sanders is calling for $15. PS: 1,700 likes. How many likes do the Trots have? http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/30592-bernie-sanders-run-can-help-the-us-less-war-movement Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] (202) 448-2898 x1 On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 7:48 PM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > > "With all the corporate tools running around Congress, Sanders is one of > the few people with a pretty good record -- at least relative to the > others. Nobody expects him to lead a revolution or to bring the financial > megaliths down the signs. If nothing else, he can help move the > conversation into something resembling rationality." > > -------- > > The objection to him is that he is an utterly ineffective reformist. We do > need reforms; campaigning for Sanders hurts the possibility of achieving > even minimal reforms. The DP is THE major barrier to any mass movement for > serious reform; it drains off the desperately needed cadre for social > movements and union revivification! > > > And the DP would be a less dangerous obstacle if it lacked such useless > "left" members as Sanders, Warren, et al. > > Again: Please read Bruce Dixon on electoral politics. > > Carrol > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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