John-John, RIP

[Michael Yates]

I think that the only way to tap into the progressive potential people
have is through concrete struggles.  I think that one place (but by no
means the only one) this can be done is in peoples' workplaces.  If this
is so, the reactionary nature of so many of our unions, which do not
even much consider the nature of work in our society, is really
deplorable. And given the willingness of a fair number of immigrants,
poor women, and minorities to protest when given the chance makes the
racism of these same unions a sad thing.

michael yates

Doug Henwood wrote:
> 
> kelley wrote:
> 
> >btw, why is it that polls are frequently attacked on this list for being
> >the tripe that they are, but when it comes to a poll that mirrors a view of
> >the world that's acceptable then a-okay and hurray to polls.
> 
> So the American masses don't really revere the church, the army, and
> cops after all? Were they really disturbed that their military bombed
> the fuck out of some poor slobs in the Balkans, and just kept that
> concern under wraps? Ditto their great underappreciated concern that
> their government has starved and poisoned a million Iraqis? I'd love
> to believe that there were some great untapped reservoirs of
> solidarity and passion, but it's pretty damn hard to see any. Maybe
> I'm just in a bad mood this week.
> 
> Doug