<div>Nathan:</div> <div> </div> <div>Check out the ISO. They're at <a href="http://www.socialististworker.org">www.socialististworker.org</a>, 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. </div> <div> </div> <div>You might also want to look at back issues of New Politics, <a href="http://www.newpol.org">www.newpol.org</a>, 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. </div> <div> </div> <div>Cockburn did a cranky piece on Kerry for New Left Review #29 <a href="http://www.newleftreview.net">www.newleftreview.net</a>  Has some fleeting reference to unions.</div> <div>Counterpunch <a href="http://www.counterpunch.com">www.counterpunch.com</a> might have some stuff, too.</div> <div> </div> <div>Mike Hirsch  <br><br> </div> <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/2/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Nathan Newman</b> <<a href="mailto:nathanne@nathannewman.org">nathanne@nathannewman.org</a>> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">So for a class I'm teaching, we have a section on unions and electoral<br>politics; I'd like to include a piece, hopefully on the longer essay length <br>size, arguing for third party politics.<br><br>What are folks favorite piece to argue the case against unions allying with<br>the Democrats?<br>   -- URL appreciated if it's on the Internet<br><br><br>___________________________________ <br><a href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</a><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>________________________________________<br> `And these words shall then become<br>Like oppression's thundered doom<br>Ringing through each heart and brain,<br>Heard again -- again -- again--<br>`Rise like Lions after slumber<br>In unvanquishable number--<br>Shake your chains to earth like dew <br>Which in sleep had fallen on you--<br>Ye are many -- they are few.'<br>--------Shelley, "The Mask of Anarchy:<br>Written on the Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester" [1819]<br><br>