Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 21:07:48 -0500
From: neil <74742.1651-AT-CompuServe.COM>
Subject: AUT: US Labor against War, etc


Scott--

Looks like this US Labor agiant War (USLAW) maybe  is an
offshoot of the stillborn "US Labor Party" (LP)? Sure sounds like it..

The "LP" is little more than a 'corral' to keep  militant union rank and
filers who  are sickened by more union pleas to vote  Democratic 
from looking beyond voting/doorbell ringing  in bourgeois election circuses
for 
actual defense of class interests.

Most all of the AFL  Unions that  claim to support the LP -and USLAW -
are still backing the Democrats to the tune of tens of milions of $$$
yearly, especially near election time. I point this out because it shows
the unionist 'left' claims to oppose the Democrats is nothing but shadow 
boxing
and empty posturing, for every $1 the AFL labor fakers give to the LP
they give $10,000 to the Democrats- & they also really mobilize their
memebrs -
to get out the votes for Democrats!

Why doesn't the USLAW attack the  AFL/ labor fakers for backing the
Democrats (who endorse the war-  after some mealy mouthed UN
debating is carried out)?? The answer is obvious, theirs is not serious
 opposition to the Oil war , the loyalty is to the US nation state first.

True , amny US unions have  recently passed some "anti-war " resolutions,
but these outfits do next to nothing to mobilize any actions, in fact  ts
safe to 
say that the majority of their memebrs don't even know of these
'anti-war' resolutions at all!

If workers in unions are to fight against the war , we have to get 
ourselves organized -from below  -- without the union apparatuses
controlling
things at all!

Neil

 






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