Re: Output Falling in Oil-Rich Mexico, and Politics Get the Blame

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/14/07, Julio Huato <juliohuato@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ... I don't think that the U.S. working class is politically
> inactive.  Not at all.  To be brutal, in many and fundamental ways,
> traditional working-class political action in the U.S. is subordinated
> to the interest of U.S. capitalists.  However, the embryo of
> independent political action is also apparent, if we care to notice.
> It's been for too long, basically and until recently, political action
> of the defensive type.  The class is terribly disunited.  Basic
> solidarity towards the poorest, most vulnerable sectors of the class
> (immigrants, minorities) is lacking.  The negative trends affecting
> the union movement haven't stopped.  Etc.  Etc. ...

here in Southern California, there have been several positive trends
in the labor movement: the janitors' strikes, the effort to get living
wage ordinances and the like. There have been movements like this all
across the US, though the old AFL-CIO/C2W is definitely in trouble.

there is also a contrasting & conflicting movement among some workers
to oppose "illegal immigration" and the like.
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Jim Devine / "The truth is more important than the facts." -- Frank Lloyd Wright