-----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of Doug Henwood
Eubulides wrote:
>So we should engage in solidarity when Boeing workers hop in bed
>w/management to fleece the working class in WA to the tune of $3.2billion,
>engage in large scale misogyny, keep right on supplying the war machine
>[still more fleecing of the working class..] yada yada. There are scores
of
>other examples people on this list could cite just from the last decade As
>if the politics of solidarity ultimate ritual was the picket line; that's
>narrow minded puritanism. Hard cases are all there are, the simple ones
have
>been screwed up to the point where even they're complex now.
Are Boeing workers on strike over the issue? I must have missed that.
Doug
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Don't even get me started on what Boeing workers *don't* strike over! :-)
Are Boeing workers in China, Japan, Israel etc. crossing a picket line when they continue to work while their brothers and sisters in Puget Sound are on strike? Or is that just retrograde nationalism?
This whole discussion concedes too much to the business unionism model we all abhor and the fallacy of simple location in a world being de-re-territorialized at the click of a mouse..........