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El 19/10/2010 09:45 p.m., Gary MacLennan escribió: > I recall talking to a striking coal miner in 1971 at Essex University and > him telling me that when the lights began to flicker they would have won. > Ditto for the French refineries. > > What seems to be happening in France is the workers are awakening to a sense > of their own power. What the bosses (union& bourgeois) will seek to do is > to put an end to that awakening and replace it with the comatose status quo. In France, most power plants are nuclear. So that I am not sure if lights will flicker soon. But yes, it is wonderful news from Dan and we must be proud to have him on this list. And the French working class, hopefully, can send a strong signal to workers all over Europe. Nothing they haven´t done in their glorious past. As to union leaders, while I don´t trust them at all, they are _also_ a result of the relations of power at play. If strikers can keep doing their job, they will find it hard to betray them. And, however reluctantly, they will have to radicalize their own standing or see the wave drown them into nothingness. Wasn´t a French who wrote something about "L'être et le néant"???? ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
