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Re: What the Empire Learned from the Lesson of Iran

Yoshie: 
There hasn't been any strike of significance in Venezuela -- except
the management-led lockout and the CTV-led strikes -- since the
beginning of the Bolivarian Revolution.  One will see how they get
treated when they go on strike.


I don't recall Chavez sending in goon squads to break up strike meetings,
even if the goal was openly to overthrow the government which was not the
case in the Tehran bus drivers strike.

What of the rest of the Middle East?  How do the other Middle Eastern
states treat their trade unions where they exist?


I am not interested in comparing Iran to Egypt. My interest in this debate
is to challenge the preposterous idea that Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad have anything in common, no matter what *Chavez says*. I make
my own decisions about such matters, as I have done ever since I left the
world of sectarian politics.

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