[lbo-talk] Andy Stern: dupe of Leslie Dach?

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 3/29/07, Mark Rickling <mrickling at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/29/07, Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Organized labor in the
> > USA is not just opposed to socialism -- it's opposed to social
> > democracy, not just abroad (through the Solidarity Center), but here
> > as well.
>
> I certainly wouldn't go this far. For instance, thanks to the recent
> affiliation of the California Nurses Association, the AFL now supports
> single payer.

But AFL-CIO is not gonna waging any serious campaign for socialized
medicine, and it, as well as CtW, will continue to do all it can to
support the Democratic Party that is opposed to socialized medicine,
and so will leftists to the Left of AFL-CIO.  Social democracy is
therefore a non-starter here.
-- 
Yoshie