Re: AUT: Unions & revolution In Ontario

[mrnobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Neil Fettes wrote:

<snip>
>  Clearly there was
> sentiment to continue the fight, but the union leadership had decided enough
> was enough.
>
> What might have been another alternative for the more militant teachers? <snip>

Its always easier to suggest how a struggle could have gone further, when your
outside it, and its already over. But for what its worth, the way to go in most
struggles is to try to link up with other workers, proles or combatative
elements.

For example, some effective strike action that has happened in London this year
has been where textile workers in dispute with their boss, have gone directly to
other workeres in nearby factories and called them out. This solidarity call,
although illegal in the UK (and so something any genuine union would oppose) was
followed and the strike ended in victory.

We have also seen link ups between workers at Liverpool docks, Hillingdon
hospital workers and Reclaim the Streets, amongst others.

Unions organise workers (not the the whole of the working-class or proletariat)
by sector, or trade or industry or company or country or whatever. Its not
unusual for a dozen unions to represent different sectors at the same enterprise.
The real social movement of the proletariat, against Capital, always tends to
break down the divisions between sector, country, trade, enterprise, and between
worker/non-worker, between members of one union and the other, between union
members and non-members.


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