[lbo-talk] Class Action: The Million Worker March, October 17

Michael Dawson MDawson at pdx.edu
Tue Oct 19 08:53:14 PDT 2004


"Suppose that ILWU Local 10 waited until a million workers got fired up to mobilize for the program of the Million Worker March. By then, the current stage of hotel workers' strikes, lockouts, and contract negotiations -- the topic that John mentioned -- would be over."

You miss the point (of course). The point is how much easier would it be to organize hotel workers if there were a rumbling of a political labor movement? If you could put one million workers in the streets demanding something other than the powers that be, wouldn't that give lots of people genuine hope that change is possible and struggle might pay off?

Instead, you've managed to show people that radicalism is contrary to strategy and actual results. Come to Washington and "network" with all the people you already agree with and email with 10 times a week! Help us explain that when we said MWM, we didn't really mean MWM! Stand up and make your statement that you stand squarely with your 10,000 comrades, in a working class of 200 million people!



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