Re: [A-List] Zimbabwe

[Leighm <the.buffalo.in.the.midst@xxxxxxxxx>]

james daly wrote:
> The AFL-CIO's role in regard to Allende and Chavez shows the potential
> treachery of trade union bureaucracies towards anti-imperialist struggles.
> J. D.
>
>   

I've always considered *most* modern American "unions" to be fraternal 
organizations, NOT "Unions"(big 'U'), and as such, the me-and-mine-first 
ethic leads to all kinds of treachery.

All one has to do is watch a Teamsters union truck drive through a 
construction union picket line to fathom the depths of decrepitude those 
organizations have fallen into. Even more so when the target, economic 
or military, is another country.

You won't hear too many Ford workers complain about building hydrogen 
powered drones to annihilate Iraqis, as long as those workers are 
getting paid well.

Divide... conquer... Business as usual.

Leigh