"Workers are fed up"

[Dddddd0814 at aol.com]

"I don't disagree the AFL-CIO has more resources. Way more resources. But 
that also comes with its own problems, as you, with your repeated calls 
for some kind of "post unionism" must also realize. At least you referred 
your friend to a real union and not to some gost of a "post leftist 
post-union," which you have repeatedly argued for on the list. 
In short, there obviously needs to be som kind of radical labor - 
revolutionary labor - alternative to the AFL-CIO. I'm all ears. What are 
your thoughts?"

I disagree with the "obvious" part of this assertion. What *is* obvious is 
that the AFL-CIO is a corrupt bureaucracy, representatives of the Democratic 
Party within labor rather than vice-versa. But, it is the hallmark of 
sectarian leftism to state that workers should abandon a large union to form 
some splinter sect of the little that remains of actual workers organizations 
with actual workers in them. You might as well ask workers to burn their 
union dues which they've worked for years and years to contribute. Rather, in 
order to advance the workers' movement in the U.S., the rank and file needs 
to be agitating and organizing within these corrupted unions from within, 
electing out the bureaucratic officials with a radical leadership not 
beholden to the Democratic Party. The old officials will then have their 
capitalist sympathies exposed for everyone to see, so they can be humiliated 
and ostracized in whatever manner the workers deem appropriate.

Not to say that this wouldn't be a challenge....

-- d