Real Despair

[Max Sawicky]

. . .
Moreover, we ought to wake up to the fact that, with the 
disappearance of the Soviet Union & the socialist challenge, 
organized labor in America has become even more dispensable to the 
Democrats than in 1986 when _Prisoners..._ got published.  Decades of 
loyal anti-communist service on the part of the AFL-CIO have 
ironically resulted in its own relegation to the political margins.  Yoshie

"Dispensable"?  This is wildly inaccurate.
The Party would be absolutely dead meat w/o
labor.  You must mean, labor's interests are
dispensable, but there is no doubt labor's
resources are essential.  The wonder is how
little labor gets/asks for in return.

mbs