So the labor presence prevented the police from breaking up the civ-disobedience youngsters blockading the WTO - in other words, they were the key condition for its success in delaying the WTO for half a day, causing the happy train wreck of the whole show.
Think maybe the Clinton White House had something to do with this?
At 09:31 AM 1/4/01 -0500, you wrote:
>. . .
>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
>
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