Is the author of this article, Alex Press, addressing the union leadership or its members, or does he even recognize the difference? My suspicion is that he's addressing the general left audience and dodging the question of the role of the leadership.
Or maybe he thinks that he, Alex Press, is so influential that he can convince the disgracefully passive leadership to step up. More likely is that he recognizes that a clear dissection of the role of the union leadership would be harmful to his career. After all, you don't have to be Karl Marx or Big Bill Haywood to understand that the unions should be front and center in the whole struggle against ICE and BPD (whose role seems to get ignored despite the fact that from what I am told they are even worse than ICE). The questions are (1) why is the leadership operating like a dead hand, keeping the unions back, and (2) what can be done about it And what is the reality of a few union locals having endorsed Jan. 23? The fact that they had nothing - not a word - on their web sites about it tells you all you need to know. It tells you that they did nothing to get their staff of full timers to go out to the job sites and organize their members to participate. News about Jan. 23 on their web sites was just as present as were union banners at the protest.. Jacobin's article on ICE and the labor movement is about what can be expected from that rag. John Reimann -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#40456): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/40456 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/117547923/21656 -=-=- 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. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
