Who Killed Vincent Chin? (was Barkley on WTO, etc)

[Russell Grinker]

From: Max Sawicky
>Arguments resorting to connecting one's opponent
>with murderous, racist acts is the last resort of . . .
>
>I got it.   Of liberals.
>
>A not particularly progressive strain of liberal.
>The anti-labor kind.

I always thought a struggle against racism, nationalism, xenophobia,
sexism....was a contribution towards strengthening the independent outlook
of trade union/worker organisations.  Apparently not.  A critique of what
(admittedly from about 10 000 miles away) seem to be very real problems in
the US labour movement is taken by Max as a liberal attack.  Where I come
from, fighting against bourgeois prejudices amongst working people is part
of a long and honourable tradition.  Pandering to them would be the worst
kind of economism.  But unfortunately, there's a long tradition of that too.

Russell