Detroit might learn two lessons from recent practices in Argentinian dimension of the South American Revolution: Repudiate debt and employees run factories.
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Recuperated Enterprises in Argentina: Reversing the Logic of Capitalism
By Marie Trigona - March 17, 2006
Argentina's worker-run factories are setting an example for workers around the world that employees can run a business even better without a boss or owner. Some 180 recuperated enterprises up and running, providing jobs for more than 10,000 Argentine workers. The new phenomenon of employees taking over their workplace began in 2000 and heightened as Argentina faced its worst economic crisis ever in 2001. Nationwide, thousands of factories have closed and millions of jobs have been lost in recent years. Despite challenges, Argentina's recuperated factory movement have created jobs, formed a broad network of mutual support among the worker-run workplaces and generated community projects...
full article at http://americas.irc-online.org/am/3158
^^^^ CB: We have sent a letter from the Detroit City Council to the Venezuealan Consulate in response to the offers of oil. Maybe we'll establish a sister city there.
Detroit has been under a sort of economic blockade like Cuba since it became majority Black, so we have that in common with the Left South.
One problem is that most of the White workers have moved out of the City because they don't want to live with Black workers; and Detroit-bashing is the favorite political sport around the state. Same ole problem for the unity of the working class in America.
If White workers figure out how to unite with Black , we might get it going.