It may be true that American labor doesn't wield as much clout as it did, say, forty years ago, and that a broader-based organizational effort will be needed in the coming (hopelessly nonviolent) class war. But unions do provide the kind of infrastructure that's going to be essential for mass mobilizations and general strikes: Meeting halls, phone banks, strike funds, food banks, etc. Personally, I'm a little disappointed that the major union bosses haven't already held a summit to discuss the possibility of this, but I still think unions will need to be a major player if we're ever to raise people's class-consciousness to the point where they're ready to take a week, or more, off work to man the barricades.
(Via.)
---Baron V
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