File spoon-archives/aut-op-sy.archive/aut-op-sy_2001/aut-op-sy.0106, message 187


Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 20:56:14 +0100 (BST)
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Scott=20Hamilton?= <s_h_hamilton-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: Union was Re: Fwd: Against Platformism


Andrew:
Beyond this we wouldn't say "any successful
> >struggle that starts inside them will end up
> outside them." as this presumes defeat!  If you
presuming  defeat  you might as well stay at home

No no, not at all! I just mean that any successful
thing that starts in a union will end up exploding the
boundaries that trade unions set up, ie breaking
through trade barriers, involving non-waged members of
the community etc and the union will either have to be
transformed (an unlikley prospect most times) or
transcended. Something like this going on, perhaps, in
the South island of Nnew Zealand at the moment, where
local communities are getting involved in a waterfront
dispute, but are finding that they have to organise
separate demonstrations if they want to take direct
action, as the union leaders feel themselves
constrained by a court injunction against effective
picketing. 

Btw, I think we're thinking about different articles!
I'll look it up.

Cheers
Scott


====For "a ruthless criticism of every existing idea":
THR-AT-LL, NZ's class struggle anarchist paper http://www.freespeech.org/thrall/
THIRD EYE, a Kiwi lib left project, at http://www.geocities.com/the_third_eye_website/
and 'REVOLUTION' magazine, a Frankfurt-Christchurch production, http://cantua.canterbury.ac.nz/%7Ejho32/

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