The DP has always been a royal pain-in-the-ass, but in a period when a nascent left is in its early and stumbling stages, badly needing more people actively engaged in the struggle the DP is more and more fitting Black Agenda's label of "The More Effective Evil." I personally know, here in Bloomington, at least five persons who would be active in the local movement were it not for their inability to break loose from "the lesser evil." This drain on the left's 'person-power' makes the DP the world's foremost protector of evil.
Carrol -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eugene Coyle Sent: Tuesday, July 03, 2012 1:10 PM To: Pen-l Pen-L Subject: [Pen-l] Michael Yates on Labor and Wisconsin Full at http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/07/02/are-you-now-or-have-you-ever-been-an- anti-labor-leftist/ Scapegoating the Wisconsin Debacle Are You Now or Have You Ever Been an "Anti-Labor Leftist"? by MICHAEL D. YATES The recent defeat of the Scott Walker recall in Wisconsin, an election in which Walker soundly defeated the same Democratic challenger who ran against him when he became governor in 2010, has generated much discussion. Why was the Wisconsin Uprising of early 2011, where hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites took to the streets and occupied the Capitol building to protest Walker's attempt to destroy public employee unions and eliminate social welfare programs, diverted by the Democratic Party and labor leaders into a recall effort? Why was the man chosen by the Democrats to run against Walker a person who had himself been an enemy of labor unions and who distanced himself from organized labor every chance he got during the recall campaign? Why didn't the unions build on the Uprising to reconstitute the state's labor movement on a more militant and class conscious basis? Several people, including radical economist and Left Business Observereditor Doug Henwood and Progressive magazine editor Matt Rothschild, took labor leaders to task for not taking advantage of the mass anger and willingness to protest shown by the Uprising. Henwood said, <snip > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
