Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 07:19:26 +0100 (MET) From: malecki-AT-algonet.se (Robert Malecki) Subject: Re: 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 7:13 am Feb. 19, 1997 (the date stuff is a test) Well the latest "concrete" thing I did was last night. I helped one of my worker friends and trade union friend set up his homepage. During the process we discussed the latest stuff about the union leadership going along with a new program of letting workers who have passed the age of 55 and are unemployed work in the public sector for unemployment pay. I discussed the aspects of what this means and that we should have a big fight about this shit as soon as possible in the union. So to the homepage! It is a great big link to Cockroach and then he wanted a link to some radio amateurs and a linl to "Cops on line" which is live from the LA police. And best of all being just a fairly normal militant trade union activists a big picture of a lady which looks like it was taken from a playboy magazine or off the wall of the local industry or trade union local! Chech it out it is a classic! http:www.algonet.se/~Pfors By the wy his father was in the revolution in Hungry in 56! Today I am going to do a two hour lecture as a trade union activists on war. Especially the war in Vietnam for a high school class.. Is that a little more concrete. Naturally what I have to say is connected to all that horrible Trotsky stuff and programs and tactics. Because I read the books also! Bob Malecki --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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