<html><body> <DIV>Short of taking state power, what else is there other than defending what one has and organizing?  Do suppose the left/progressives provide free consulting services to GM/Ford and/or the UAW tops?  SR</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message -------------- <BR>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood@panix.com> <BR><BR>> <BR>> This response embodies exactly what I'm talking about: militant <BR>> demands will not make it so. The labor movement and its sympathetic <BR>> intellectuals should at least have some semblance of a strategy for <BR>> how to deal with the industry's economic crisis, but I've never heard <BR>> one. <BR>> <BR>> Doug <BR>> ___________________________________ <BR>> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk </BLOCKQUOTE></body></html>