Revolutionary role of unions

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Wed Aug 7 13:51:11 PDT 2002


"At the time of the crisis over the war, the labor bureaucracy played the role of a reactionary factor.... But that does not mean the labor movement will be able to get along without a big organizational apparatus; without an entire spectrum of people devote especially to serve the proletarian organization. We do not want to go back to the time when the labor movement was so weak that it could get along without its own employees and functionaries, but to go forward to the time when the labor movement will be something different, in which the strong movement of the proletariat will subordinate the stratum of functionaries to itself, in which routine will be destroyed, bureaucratic corrosions wiped out; which will bring new men [and women] to the surface, infuse them with fighting courage, fill them with a new spirit."

-- Gregory Zinoviev, 1916 from "New International" (NY), March-June 1942



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