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https://www.labornotes.org/2020/02/teacher-strikes-boost-fight-racial-justice-schools Teacher Strikes Boost Fight for Racial Justice in Schools On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 2:58 PM Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > On 2/6/20 2:41 PM, John Reimann via Marxism wrote: > > It was just last spring that hundreds of carpenters - mainly apprentices > - > > rallied against a sellout contract in New York. There was even a campaign > > towards a wildcat strike (which didn't get off the ground). Prior to > that, > > thousands of construction workers actually shut down central streets in > > Manhattan in protest against a major nonunion construction project. > > > > In 1999, 2,000 carpenters did go on a wildcat strike in the SF Bay Area. > > There are strikes and there are strikes. When these carpenters get the > wage they rightfully deserve, they will go back to the atomized > existence that characterizes all of the blue collar/factory workers in > the USA. When I see carpenters showing up at protests against ICE or at > a cops out of the subways protest under their own union banner, I'll sit > up and pay attention. > > What are the teachers doing now who were on a wildcat strike that Eric > Blanc wrote a book about? Any sign of them doing anything except going > to work each day and then returning home to look after family affairs? > > I am afraid John is susceptible to what Freud called projection, even > though I generally have little use for his theories. As a young college > student, just like most people who hooked up with Labor Notes, et al, > John was radicalized by the war in Vietnam, read Karl Marx, and > concluded that only the working class can lead the USA to socialism. > > Unfortunately, most carpenters don't travel that road. Just go out to > Queens or New Jersey and find a bar where they hang out after work. See > if you can get them interested in helping to launch a new party of the > working-class. Don't blame me if they look at you as if you have > two-heads. Not to speak of losing some teeth. > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
