--- Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>
>
> andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> >
> > As a lawyer, would you recommend an illegal strike
> in
> > the hope a Chrysler-like buyout, especially in
> these
> > circumstances. An illefgals trike could break the
> UAW
> > completely, horrible fines, striker replacememnts,
> the
> > works. If there were a militant and aroused
> working
> > class, the equation might look different. But
> there's
> > not.
>
> Mass movements tend to be preceded by great
> "premature" struggles which
> end tragically. Hence . . . .????
Like the miner's strike of the 80's in Britain. That defeat has worked out _so_ well in the subsequent 20 years.
You know. Carrol, if the workers can't be held back, then that's great even if they risk a terrible defeat -- as when do they not? The British miner's strike _may) have been an instance. Not a particularly encouraging one given its consequences. On the other hand, an adventurist action by a purblind leadership is already doomed to defeat. Not that the UAW leadership is particularly adventurist.
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