[lbo-talk] working class consciousness

[MICHAEL YATES]

The discussion with Jim Straub and others about workers, unions, 
intellectuals, class consciousness is interesting.  I wrote about my own 
class consciousness in the summer issue of Monthly Review: Class: A Personal 
Story.  I'd love comments on it.

Readers might also be interested in the interview I did with Ellen Dannin on 
why it is important for labor not to abandon the NLRB or the National Labor 
Relations Act. (as some in US labor have suggested): www.mrzine.org

One thing unions haven't done for a very long time (of course, most never 
have) is try to articulate a working class ideology, a world view (with 
specifics like national health care) aimed at helping working people 
understand the world around them.

Michael Yates