[lbo-talk] WP: Europeans Resist Wolfowitz

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Mar 18 12:22:51 PST 2005


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.]
>
>That sounds like an interesting story. Are you thinking of a
>particular article or book?

I wrote about it a bit in Wall Street, but there's quite a bit about the story in Eric Lichten's 1986 book, Class, Power & Austerity.

Doug



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