Subject: Re: M-G: Re: so- called deformed workers states    
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 18:19:50 +1100 (EST)


> 
> Why Neil! Why should the Trotskyists change their position on trade union 
> work? I mean the Transitional program is still quite and effective weapon.  
> >
Isn't that the program based on telling workers to demand things that 
capitalism cannot deliver and in the process sound like a reformist? The 
class example in recent years, has been the demand that the capitalists 
get rid of unemployment. 
> 
> > Trade UNIONS today are not "opposition" as they were in the pre-imperialist
> >epoch of capitalism , there has been qualitative changes .
> >Of course communists work in them to have access to the ranks
> >and also to keep their jobs! 

In the "pre-imperialist" period (ie 19th century) trade unions were 
confined to skilled workers and were exceedingly conservative. 

David McMullen
davidm-AT-union4.su.swin.edu.au
http://www.su.swin.edu.au/~davidm/welcome.htm


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