John Gulick is right to warn of the dangers of
a progressive left/labor agenda simply dissolving
into US economic nationalism, or worse, outright
Buchananism . But I think *some* folks in the US labor
movement *do* recognize the need for a different
strategy, one based on a renewed labor interna
For those of you interested in U.S. organized labor's "new direction"
under the Sweeney/Trumka leadership, see the article in today's _NYT_
about the labor bosses paying a visit to the Boeing strike in Everett,
WA. Renewed militancy, perhaps, but with a woefully protectionist
twist. What is one of
