Bush Threatens Veto of Defense Bill

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

At 9:41 PM -0400 10/8/02, JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote:
>That said, yes, my experience with organizing for the Labor Party is that
>when the dems are in power, people can see that they aren't the solution. 
>With Bush in, there's too much defensive work--in the unions and everywhere
>else--to even think about an alternative party.  It's a fine example of the
>general case that being more downtrodden doesn't automatically lead to more
>revolt--and, for me, more evidence that there's frequently no conflict
>between reform and revolution.

Had the Labor Party acted more quickly and aggressively while the US 
economy was still in the middle of the boom, we might be facing a 
different political landscape today, but it's too late to mourn the 
missed opportunity.  Whether we like it or not, we are in for hard 
times, perhaps even a hard landing.  It's time for the Labor Party to 
reassess its strategy, confronting the reality of the empire, or else 
it will not have any political future.
-- 
Yoshie

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