[lbo-talk] WP: Europeans Resist Wolfowitz

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Mar 18 11:38:20 PST 2005


Carrol Cox wrote:


>Michael Pollak wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Doug Henwood wrote:
>>
>> > [This "resistance" may be like that offered by Victor Gotbaum, head of the
>> > municipal workers union during the NYC fiscal crisis of 1975, when they
>> > made publicly militant gestures at the very moment they were privately
>> > selling out the working class.]
>
>Who is "they" here? Is Victor Gotbaum a group? Or is it the municicpal
>workers as a group who were planning on selling out?

Sorry for the sloppy shorthand, but I'm sure you could have figured it out. Gotbaum & the union leaders were making a lot of noise publicly while they were privately selling out the membership.



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