On 8/12/06, Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yoshie:
>There hasn't been any strike of significance in Venezuela -- except
>the management-led lockout and the CTV-led strikes -- since the
>beginning of the Bolivarian Revolution. One will see how they get
>treated when they go on strike.
I don't recall Chavez sending in goon squads to break up strike meetings,
even if the goal was openly to overthrow the government which was not the
case in the Tehran bus drivers strike.
Pitched battles between supporters and opponents of the Bolivarian
Revolution have been common, the battles that have sometimes included
gun shots and deaths:
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2625997.stm>.
>What of the rest of the Middle East? How do the other Middle Eastern
>states treat their trade unions where they exist?
I am not interested in comparing Iran to Egypt.
That would be an interesting line of inquiry.
My interest in this debate
is to challenge the preposterous idea that Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad have anything in common
I don't know why you are obsessed with challenging that. Is that a
dominant ideology nowadays? :->
--
Yoshie
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