>My point has been that the unions have been investing in a whole
>range of initiatives in Los
>Angeles for well over a decade and the mass mobilization last week
>was one fruit of those efforts.
I live in Los Angeles and I'm familiar with the work you're talking about. But this sounds like one of the things Fitch criticizes. This is from the interview with Michael Yates:
>At present, we're imprisoned in a culture of small group narcissism
>-- tiny groups making inflated claims, with ever narrowing agendas,
>insisting on infallibility, ignoring or anathematizing
>critics. Networking has mostly replaced mass organizing. Most have
>given up socialism, but not sectarianism.