[Marxism] ISR Article:The changing working class Is the U.S. becoming post-industrial? By ADAM TURL

[Jerry Wells <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI-

Here is an interesting article from the
International Socialist Review (ISR) posted
on-line.

ISR Issue 52, MarchâApril 2007 


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The changing working class
Is the U.S. becoming post-industrial?

By ADAM TURL

http://www.isreview.org/issues/52/postindustrial.shtml

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The next question to explore:
 
Given the total control of mass media by capitalist and
corporate interests, how can we develop mass media to
convey the socialist alternative to this changed working
class? 

My own view is that we need to develop NON-PRINT media 
such as on-line audio, radio, ipod files, etc. broadcasts of 
news, analysis, educational material, cultural criticism,
etc. that people can listen to while driving to work, working
at home, riding the bus, etc. 

Many years ago there existed in Chicago the "Voice of Labor"
radio station (WGN?). Today no such thing exists for people
to hear any alternative to capitalist propaganda. Perhaps
the existing labor movement, as conservative and politically
bankrupt as it is, really has nothing to say. The crisis
of the labor movement today is that it is not anti-capitalist
but is a "business partner" to corporations, even as big business
is destroying the economic conditions of their employees.

And what is that socialist alternative?

"We are fighting to create a society in which the 
needs of humanity prevail over the corporate drive for
profit and the accumulation of obscene levels of personal wealth."

The problem is an international problem:

"The problems that confront workers in the United States are, in
essence, the same as those confronting workers in every other part of
the world. War, the attack on democratic rights, exploitation,
unemployment, poverty and the destruction of the natural environment are
not simply American problems. They are world problems and require global
solutions."

The above quotes is from "For a socialist alternative in the 2006 US
elections" of the (US) Socialist Equality Party
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/sep2006/prog-s28.shtml

Similar attacks against working people in the U.S. are being carried out
in England as well.

Election manifesto of the Socialist Equality Party of Britain
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/mar2007/mani-m27.shtml



Jerry Wells




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