Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 10:55:19 -0500 From: Furuhashi.1-AT-osu.edu (Yoshie Furuhashi) Subject: M-I: Marxists in Unions (Was: Young Workers and Walmart) I got questions for those of you who are (or were) in unions, as rank-and-file members, stewards, paid organizers, etc. How do you work, as marxists, within and against the generally conservative unions? What are you doing to move your fellow workers to get beyond the level of trade union consciousness? Gary and Jonathan's posts on the sorry spectacle of union bosses betraying the best interests of workers and hobnobing with capitalists recapitulate familiar problems. I would like to know what marxists are doing to change this state of affairs. Please don't give me the lecture on "fundamentals," or ask me to read Lenin, Trotsky, etc. on these question. I have read them. What I want is something a little more concrete. I am very eager to learn from the more experienced. Yoshie Furuhashi --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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