The illusion-mongers for the Liberals and the NDP claim that these political parties are actually pro-worker or even working class parties as is the case with the NDP. The Liberals and the NDP ensure that the working class neither puts forward its own class interest as the main thing nor adopts its own independent political program. The illusion-mongers always demand that the working class place the agenda of the bourgeoisie as paramount. The Liberals and the NDP are the facilitators in this regard. This is where their treachery against the working class lies. A key feature of this treachery is the question of the "rule of law" in relation to the economic and political system. If there is any threat, even minor, to this rule of law and the economic and political system, the real beast emerges from these political parties to crush anyone or anything which poses such a threat. In such cases there is no "pro-worker" bias to soften the blow. It is not accidental that these political parties are pursing the bourgeois agenda of the anti-social offensive at this time. This treachery is organized by these political parties with the support of the illusion-mongers. The illusion-mongers claim, as their strategic opinion, that no radical transformation of the society is possible. Having ruled out the possibility of revolution, they set out to demand that the working class support the very political parties that commit treachery against them time and again. In other words, these illusion-mongers do not want the working class to become political and look after its own interests. The demand by the Ontario Labor Relations Board that the trade unions must abide by the existing rule of law and not engage in protests against the anti-social offensive comes from these political parties themselves. They are the ones who established these boards and this labor law. They are the ones who place the interests of the financial oligarchy in the primary position. The NDP and its illusion-mongers, right from the day Mike Harris was elected in Ontario last year, accused the people of a gross "wrongdoing" by not "voting" for the NDP. And little by little they have become more brazen in their pressure that the people must not do anything to stop the Harris government in its anti-social offensive. No, they are exhorting the people to elect them next time around or suffer the consequences. The message they give is loud and clear: Stop the struggle against the anti-social offensive and vote for us or else! The protest movement in Ontario is arriving at its own conclusions. Workers learn from their own direct experience. As they develop their struggle against the anti-social offensive, they also see that they can achieve success only by relying on themselves and not on the Liberals and the NDP. They are coming to the conclusion that they must become political themselves. They are coming into a head-on collision with the illusion-mongers. They are coming into a head-on collision with this treachery. Shawgi Tell University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education [EMAIL PROTECTED]