> And will occupying the plant actually save their jobs? Do they want to do
> anything other than continue to make cars for export to the U.S.? What
> movement is their action a part of? Who are their allies? What's their
> strategy? Where do they go from here? What happens if the cops kill lots of
> them? What would they do if by some miracle the government were to wobble,
> and even more miraculously, they had an opportunity to take power?
Doug These are just rhetorical questions, yes? Or do you believe that workers are wrong to struggle for their jobs, on the Murdoch-press editorialising line that trade unions are bad for jobs and we need 'deregulation' etc? That what you think?
You're close to saying that people are wrong to fight back on the grounds that someone might get hurt (whose FAULT would that be BTW? Cops or workers?) and that anyway the bosses know best.
Each of your questions is worse than the one before. What would they do if the govt wobbled? Try to get another one elected, one more in accord with their world-view. Do you think they are too stupid to be entrusted with such a task?
And if the govt collapsed and the workers took power, that would be the ultimate disaster from your point of view, yes?
Well, perhaps you're right. It would be a disaster -- if US imperialism was still rampaging free. Last night the BBC interviewed some pop-eyed, furious US general in Washington whose undisguised desire to bomb a lot more places around the world left even the BBC momentarily speechless. Yes, when pathological maniacs and sex-hungry monsters have their fingers on the triggers, and Korean workers and their wives and children have no way to defend themselves, then the results of the workers taking power might indeed by like the results of the Paris Commune. So what do you suggest, then? That we all shut up and tremble before US bullies?
What DO you think Korean/Russian/S African etc workers ought to do? Can you answer a straight question? What ought the workers to do, Doug Henwood?
Mark