Check out the ISO. They're at www.socialististworker.org<http://www.socialististworker.org>, and go to their ISR mag archives. I don't find their argument credible--I made the case better when I was still pushing the Third Party argument--but at least theirs is civil and moderately thoughtful and fairly well developed. Their chief Democratic Party bear baiter is Alan Maas, if memory serves.
You might also want to look at back issues of New Politics, www.newpol.org<http://www.newpol.org>, though I can't remember anything offhand that deals exclusively with unions and the Democrats. I did a piece for NP slamming the NYC unions a few years back for not growing balls and asking for so little, but that had more to do with the CLC sucking up to Giuliani's 1997 mayoral run than with a third party choice.
Cockburn did a cranky piece on Kerry for New Left Review #29 www.newleftreview.net <http://www.newleftreview.net> Has some fleeting reference to unions. Counterpunch www.counterpunch.com <http://www.counterpunch.com> might have some stuff, too.
Mike Hirsch
On 11/2/05, Nathan Newman <nathanne at nathannewman.org> wrote:
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> So for a class I'm teaching, we have a section on unions and electoral
> politics; I'd like to include a piece, hopefully on the longer essay
> length
> size, arguing for third party politics.
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> What are folks favorite piece to argue the case against unions allying
> with
> the Democrats?
> -- URL appreciated if it's on the Internet
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