[Marxism] working class in Lebanese resistance?

[Andrew Pollack <acpollack2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On May 10, 2006, hundreds of thousands of working class Lebanese  demonstrated 
in Beirut against the government's plans to implement  privatization and other 
antilabor "reforms". At the time Bassem added  on this list some valuable 
information to news reports, commenting on  the unity shown by Lebanese workers 
of various creeds and parties  against the government, as well as the role of 
Hezbollah, Amal and  Aoun's FPM in the march.
  
  In the valuable dossier on Hezbollah available at MERIP and Zmag the  author 
mentions that group's origins in and policies toward workers and  poor, as has 
been documented elsewhere.
  
  So my question is whether this mobilization has had any impact on the  
current resistance to US/Israeli aggression. That is, did the May  action leave 
any political or organizational legacy which is helping to  inspire the 
resistance, and to challenge the government's weak response?
  
  My reason for asking is obvious: The key problem of the Arab and  
anti-Zionist revolution has always been the disorganization of the Arab  and 
Jewish working classes, and as a consequence the ability of  quisling bourgeois 
governments to ally with Israel or at best to put up  an incompetent resistance 
to it.
  
                
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