Good point scorp, but I would add that the McNamarra model was not so much a production model as a social and political model, one that ensured a particular versoin of the US post war social settlement. It's time is indeed over, but the casues of that go much further than the fact that Detroit refuses to produce vehicles that people want to buy. it is as much an outcome that the 1950's and 60's are long over, and that the model McNamara and the rest of the cold war liberals strived go cement in the US is one that the …
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Shorter wolf. It's all her fault because the State cannot be expected to carry out its most fundamental role-protect people rfom violence and assault, especially when a person is incarcerated under the direct control of the State! Really, I have seen some really stupid 'blame the victim' posts in my time, but this takes the cake. In wolf's view, if you do the crime, you not only do the time, but you should expect to be raped and assaulted as well. This is a perfect example of the inability of right wing reactionaries to understanbd the most basic precepts of liberal …
Posted to Transgendered Behind Bars
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What the US labor movement needs is an analysis of the distorting effect of US imperialism on every aspect of working people's lives in that country. Whether it's Change to Win or the AFL-CIO, the great silence in the US labor movement is the silence concerning the US' role across the world, including interference in other countries' labour movements, something which has occurred everywhere, including in my own, English speaking country. The Democrats are simply incapable of mounting any serious political challenge to the policies of the Republicans, because in reality, the argument amongst US elites is not that there is …
Posted to Has the Change Led to Wins?
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I think Susan has put it rather well. This adminsistration has managed to 'debase' the $US, all without any help from the 'reds under the beds'. The 'free market' is an ideological abstraction that obscures more thn ait illuminates, and left unchecked, will kill the very thing it is supposed to underpin-capitlaism. In the US the situation is absolutely gobsmacking to anyone living abroad. The 'reserve currency' so important to the prestige of the US abroad, is slowly deflating, and risking a turn to the Euro by holders of $US, meaning most of south east Asia. When and if that happens, …
Posted to Twilight of the Market's Idols
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Who hooo! Rabbit eh? Get a grip! BTW, what's your prediction for the amount of time the Chinese, Japanese and South Koreans will be content to see their foreign reservs slowly deflate in value as the US palms off its debt to the rest of the world, onto those countries, full of hard working people whose efforts permit US citizens to consume beyond their means? How long do you think the rest of he world will be happy to hang around while the US threatens to bomb the crap out of anybi\ody that doesn't accept their particular nostrums for the ideal …
Posted to Twilight of the Market's Idols
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Oh dear scorp. I can tell you exactly what is happening. Your business leaders just love a labour force that has absolutely no civil rights at all. The fact that this one speaks Spanish matters not one whit. Your pathetic attempt to 'wedge' the black working class against spanish speaking immigants is obvious and laughable, even from this distance. Have you pondered why your southern border, the one with your very own 'back yard' is the one that needs guarding against work hungry peasants, and not the one to your north, which sees mainly US citizens fleeing their military obligaioins? Ever …
Posted to No Match? No Mas!
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Really wolf? Those who oppose access to legal, safe and free abortion are frauds of the highest order. They know full well that the frenzy to prevent abortion on those terms does nothing to stop abortion, it merely ensures that wealthy and well connnedcted women get access to safe, expensive and illegal abortions, and poor women get a 20% chance of being killed in their attempt to have the same rights that being rich give to wealthy and well connected women. This is a farce of the highest order, and outlawing abortion is nothing more than state sanctioned punishement of poor …
Posted to Not By Spin Alone
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Denial of a woman's decisions to end a pregnancy is simply denial of personal agency to women, on the grounds that a fetus is a human being. They are not, and once more, they never have had the status of a person, even in conservative theological reasoning. Otherwise, why not baptise msicarriages? But in any case, once again, outlawing abortion does nothing to save fetuses, it merely serves to ensure poor women die, together with their fetuses. And no, I wouldn't decide when and in what circumstances a woman 'may' have an abortion. Since I have no intention of dealing with …
Posted to Not By Spin Alone
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Hey hey Hillary is just like the rest of US liberal hawks, only she is a girl! When I vote, I vote for policies, not 'brands' and her brand reeks of US centrism. In my view the rest of the world should be very afraid if the next US President is a Dem. They will feel obliged to bomb someone just to show they are 'tough' on defending US interests, and in an attempt to 'wedge' the kind of nutters posting here, who have masculinity issues. I can't stand her kind of politics. give me an honest to goodness reactionary Republican …
Posted to Why Women Hate Hillary
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jc, If you are a serious about your view that US elections are both fair and transparent, you would of course support tasystem that ensured that all elections for public officials were conducted by a non partisan body, and that every vote is recorded by marking ballot papers, that every vote is counted, and that scrutineers are able to watch while people who are not partisan, actually count the votes. If you do not support such a process, you are not serious about a properly functioning democracy. US election procedures are a laughing stock in every democratic country in the world. …
Posted to Fear and Voting in the USA
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texasetc, Lol, you are pathetic. You definately have a problem, and grown up attitudes to sex is one of them. Stop pretending to be the offspring of people who can think, and just admit to pathetic partisanship. If you are having sex over the net, you need to get out more, and if you don't want to catch diseases, use a condom.
Posted to Virginity or Death!: A Conversation With Katha Pollitt
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chopper, I live in a democratic country that would in no way describe itself as 'socialist; and much of what US liberals want ot reform is just standard operatiing procedure elsewhere. You guys need to grow up, and stop labelling everything you are unfamiliar with as 'socialist' It is not that I think the term in itself is an insult, it is just that it is used incorrectly by US conservatives, mostly as a result of igorance and a provincial inability to unertsand anything not 'made in USA'.
Posted to The Abramoff Babies
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Very interesting article. It is about time that trade unions everywhere understood that the war waged against trade unions and the post war 'settlement' in the West is never going to go away, and that the rules have changed. Solidarity unionism is nothing more than unionism, period. The fostering of acts of social solidarity in the workplace, and linking them with solidarity actions elsewhere, will do more to build a new, relevant and sustainable labour movement than a ton of windy manifestos and tinkering with structrures. Reclaiming the discourse and practice of human rights and democracy, at work and in the …
Posted to Starbucks Gets Wobbly
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Hey scorp, I'm still waitng for a reply from you on an earlier post when I asked you how we would know when we have won the global war on terror? Do you think you could reply? I am really interested, since it seems reading you bile, that you couldn't give a rats for anyone other than the US, and so it is important to me and around 6.2 billion other people on this planet that we know when 'we have won' as opposed to just knowing that we will always be in a state of perpetual war, until every other …
Posted to Route-Stepping? Our Way to WWIII
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Hey scorp, could you just take your meds and listen up a minute. What would an 'unsuccessful' policy in Iraq look like, and how would it be distinguished from say, the current debacle? When will we know 'we' have 'prevailed' over the 'enemy'? How will we know when 'we' have won the GWOT? What would an 'expensive' policy in Iraq look like? A deifict of two trillion dollars? Why do you think that the real elites who run US foreign policy are currently running a mile from the neocons? Signs of success, or fear for the cosequemces of letting frat boys …
Posted to Route-Stepping? Our Way to WWIII
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Hey scorp, still waitin' my man. Why are you so shy all of a sudden? Cat got your tongue? Not able to reply to specific questions? Lost your book of talking points? When will we know 'we have won' and what will 'winning' look like? What would victory in Iraq look like? What would losing in Iraq look like? and Since the policy objectives in Iraq (as far as one could ascertain them from the lies and spin) was the overthrow of old friend Saddam (bad ass) Hussein, and since that job has been done, what is now left to be …
Posted to Route-Stepping? Our Way to WWIII
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Jay Cline and scorp, Your refusal to answer my questions and the hurling of asinine abuse instead of responding to an invitation to deal with complex issues, demonstrates what most people all over the world already know. The Bush administration and its supporters are not only irrational and liars to boot, but they have done more in the last five years to trash the reputation of the US than a cartload of left radicals ever could. You, and people like you in the US, on blogs and in the right wing US Press should understand that the rest of the world …
Posted to Route-Stepping? Our Way to WWIII
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So texasindependent, if I have your drift, we will konw we have won, when civil war breaks out in all the countries that now claim a muslim majority, or when the rest of the muslim world takes up your advice and attacks both saudi arabia and iran. Presumably unitl the rest of the muslim world (1.2 billion people) understand their historic mission as being to forment war and strife in their own backyards, 'we' will just have to do it for them. BTW, terrorism is not a label. It is a word that describes a technique used by a wide variety …
Posted to Route-Stepping? Our Way to WWIII
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'Until we squash the terorists and killers' Oh good. When are you going to 'squash' the killers that infect your own back yard? How will you do that? How will you know you have squashed 'all the terrorists and killers'? When there is no more killing? Or is it only killing prefaced with the words 'Allah is great' that gets you going. Grow up!
Posted to Route-Stepping? Our Way to WWIII
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Er Scorp, How will we 'wipe them out' and how will we know when they are 'wiped out'? Waiting to hear from the 'gwot is the cold war redux 'crowd' for some on this one. Just this once, could we havve some rational basis for determining the truth claims of the ratbag right.
Posted to The Neocons Lexicon
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scorp, you haven't a clue have you. Just answer the question. How will we do what you want, and how will we know when we have succeeded. If you are finding it hard to concentrate, I understand they are prescribing Ritalin these days.
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cabdriverinchicago, I admire your perserverane in the face of the most amazing idiocy, however it is clear there is absolutely no point. I suspect now that blogs like this are used by right wing spin meisters as a means of 'running up' talking points for the great unwashed, as a means of seeing who salutes the 'flag'. It is irrelevant that the term islamofascist applied to a movement like Al-Quaeda is nonesensical. The IF term has been designed to link in people's minds, the 'good war' 1939-1945, with the current gwot. The fact that this project is both conceptually as well …
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Jay, You haven't a clue. Go back to the thinktank and try and be a bit more plausable. You are a bit too transparent for anybody who is neither certifiably insane or ohas completd at least five years formal schooling. If you think the gwot is like WW2, when will we know we have won, and perhaps more importantly, what are the goals of this exciting enterprise? The elimination of all those who profess Islam?1.2 billion poeple will take some firepower to wipe out old son, but the rhetorical principle is masterful-until the rest of the world just decides that the …
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cabdriver, You are doing masterful work in trying to cram about a decade worth of modern and ancient history together with a modicum of sociology into that idiot's head. But while you are claerly very good at what you do, I restate my earlier point. Why bother? jay Cline and the rest imho are nothing more than 'stalking horses' for spin meisters' and the rest. They know what you say is 'true', but in a trivial sense, since 'the truth ' as such is not the point. As always, the 'truth' concerning the term 'islamofascisim' has nothing to do with history …
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cabdriver, I think now you have entered that terriroty known as 'pearls before swine'. Leave it be man. jc and the rest of the wingnuts aren't interested in a debate on history, they are too busy fighting history wars! BTW, globalisation also threatens the basis of the link drawn between soverignty and democracy, since if sovereignty is not confined to the bounded politiclalcommunity called 'the nation state' and floats somewhere between the iMF/WTO and individual corporate boears, to whom shal lwe address our gievances?
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cabdriver etc, iran under the Shah certainly exhibited all the hallmarks of a facist state, but how would you characterise it under the mullahs? Personally I am inclined oto think it now exhibits the hall marks of an authoritarian confessional state, a la Spain under Franco, with about as much a shelf life, although the nationalism being promulgated by the mullahs and their populist spokesperson adhminajad seems both 'authentic' as well as being the traditional 'bait and switch' employed by regimes under pressure. As for China, in my opinion it ow exhibits the characteristics of a regime under extreme pressure, and …
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I understand the history of Iran cabdriver, but i think your typology concerning current Iran awry. The mullahs are both corrupt and have a large say/control in the economy and in my view the current hysterical nationalism promulgated by the leadership in Iran is a 'distraction' from the fact that they can't deliver what people want . Which is not to say of course, that the Iranians want a bar of the 'shock and awe' freedom fighting claptrap tirelessly beamed at them by an equally demented regime in the US. I just think we need to be caeful about deploying neat …
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cabdriver, While I agree that facismis an entirely modern phenomenon, I do not agree that its modernist provenance can be sheeted just to its relationship with technology. In my view, its provenance must be understood more as a specific political response to the crisis that faced the dominant regimes in Europe during the post WW1 era. The specificities of that time won't be repeated, although racist populist mobilisation by a ruling class in political crisis is once again 'out there'. This time, it is immigrants (especially if they are muslim), and the phony spectre of 'islamofacisim', that is wielded as the …
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jc, Just for my elucidation, could you tell me how the glorificaiton of the US military, the projection of US power outside your bounded national community, and the itching desire to not leave any culture or polity alone unless and until they conform to your culturally specific view of the 'the right way', differs from other ideologies which glorify might over right, seek to obtain influence over political entities other than their own, and thereby laud a strong and militaristsic state? The only difference between the US state and every other democratic state, is that you guys tolerate military spending to …
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jc You are really crazy. Who the f**k is starboy? Wow, you really are crazy!
Posted to The Neocons Lexicon
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Both my father and maternal grandfather served in the WWs-2&1 respectiively. Both men were volunteers, and my grandfather was wounded. Three of his four brothers were killed in the war, which sent my great grandmother mad with grief. Neither men were under any illusions about war, and both were utterly immune to BS rhetoric about the glory and moral clarity that violence and death brings. Although both are now dead, I learnt at an early age that War brings nothing but death and tears, even if, as in WW2, it was felt to be necessary. Because both were real soldiers, volunteers, …
Posted to The Good War on Terror
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On yer codepink. She really is a disgusting piece of work. Oh, and if she is by any chance nominated as the Dems candidate for POTUS she will stuff every Congressional Democratic candidacy in the mdiwest and southern states. A typical, elite wanker posing as a 'friend of the people'. She and her husband are odious. Yuk!
Posted to Bird-Dogging Hillary Clinton
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Congratulations JL, you have the nail on the head. US citizens can scarcely imagine what it is like to live in countries that take social solidarity seriously, and who have actually suffered themselves (as opposed to creating suffering solely for others) at the hands of their own elites. Until the US as a whole, not just students, (who by definition, are a relatively privileged minority), are able to confront the truth about their society and the way their elites treat both US citizens and the rest of the world, there will never be any change, notwithstanding the good intentions of those …
Posted to SDS, New and Improved
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The war on working people and their rights continues. From the US across the OECD, the political elite daily demonstrate their arrogance and contempt for the electorate they so clearly despise. How their masters must be laughing, as they busily strip away every vestige of the post war settlement that ensured popular support for liberal democracy. Well there is an old saying 'Be careful what you wish for'. The daily assault on secure employment and social rights in the Anglophone world will create a 'pushback' , and those that think nobody notices or cares about what is happening are set for …
Posted to Nurses Fight to Retain Right to Unionize
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The US 'democratic process' is amazing. This is a country that can't even ensure that everyone gets to cast a ballot that is actually counted! This from a country that neo cons on this site insist, should blast the crap out of any country that doesn't conduct itself in the usual 'approved by the US' manner! Ya know, it really doesn't matter which bit of the corrupt US elite started it all-Dems or Repubs all look a lot the same from elsewhere. The point is, what are y'all going to do to make the US less of a laughing stock in …
Posted to Legislating Under the Influence
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The right wing uses race to mobilise a mass base for a program that no-one in their right mind would support. Theft from ordinary working peole (confiscation of Pension funds and the like), falling real wages and lack of health care all has to be busily camoflaged. What better way than to froth at the mouth over race and sexuality. Someone once said that anti semitism is the socialism of fools. Judging by the posts above, we have the socialism of utter idiots!
Posted to Two Faces of GOP Hate
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Until the fight is taken out form the workplaces and into the streets worker solidarity on the job (although very important) won't be enough to win in the war that is being unleashed everywhere against working people. The right to organise on the job is a concession that must be won all oveer again, and nothing is ever given away for free. We must make the political classes of every country in the OECD fearful for their priveleges if we are going to win rights that have been taken away everywhere. What we had was fought for and won, because the …
Posted to Troublemakers Are Great--But Are They Enough?
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Wolf, How do you distinguish between bad 'terrorists' and acts of violence committed by states? What exactly distinguishes the two? The identity of the actors who carry out the violence? The saction of a powerful state for some acts of violence, and the lack of state sanction for other kinds? How would you describe the overthrow of regimes of which the US dispapproves? Terrorism? Prudent preventative action? What exactly? When is an act of violence a crime and when is it an act of war? Who says so, and who gets to define it? Let me be clear-the people who murdered …
Posted to White Phosphorous Lies
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Scorp, Your post about the US only having to observe its own laws is exactly the problem. For you and others that believe that the US has the god given right to go into any country they please and in the words of Michael Levien-'throw some crappy little country up aganst the wall', the fact that the rest of the world is distinctly nervous about the exercise of US power abroad should come as no suprise. What the 'US uber alles' crowd just don't get, is that the view of the US they hold is not necessarily shared by the rest …
Posted to When Boys Will be Jarheads
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HenryB, If you think the Democrat Party in the US is Communist, you need to get out and about more my friend. This kind of rave, complete with capital letters, just serves to prove to people from other democracies that there is something skewed about US right whingers. You are so out of touch with the real world, that means the 95% of the world that doesn't actually live in the US that it would be laughable if it wasn't so scary. Wake up and smell the coffee. The US doesn't have a social democratic party of the kind notable in …
Posted to Give Iranian Nukes a Chance
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Natalie, Who cares whose fault it is that citizens in a democracy do not have an effective right to vote? It is shameful that the US which wants to export its system everywhere, at the point of a gun if necessary, has proved to the world once again that the most precious possession a person has in a so called democracy, the right to vote, is so easily removed in the good old US of A. As a citizen of a country whose leaders have lead us into the morass and barbarism of the war in Iraq, I am simply disgusted …
Posted to Keep the Voting Rights Act Alive
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Hey you guys, Stop passing the buck and start bucking the 'pass' on the basic right to vote! It is a right - no ifs, no buts, and it doesn't matter who tried to take it away when. The point is to fix the problem, not to assign blame or score points. I can't believe that serious people who would all describe themselves as supporters of 'democracy' (even if they disagree about what it means or who is more democratic) can seriously believe there can be any justification at all, in any circumstances for denying people the vote. Once you qualify …
Posted to Keep the Voting Rights Act Alive
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Natalie, I may be a 'foreigner' but I do know a little about US history, both past and more contemporary events. First let me say, while I am familiar with the shameful history of the Democratic party, particualry in the 1950s and 60s as the civil rights struggle intensified in the US, and I am aware of the honourable role that liberal Republicans sometimes played in staying the worst excesses of that ugly breed of Southern Democrat, I am aware that time has moved on. Let me explain my incredultiy about the current US system. Where I live, electoral enrolement is …
Posted to Keep the Voting Rights Act Alive
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Natalie, Would you care to respond to my post? That way you could take a breath from screaming at your ideological opponents for a minute or two, and explain to me why ensuring that every person is able to cast a vote free from the interference of elected officals or their agents, on whatever grounds, seems to be beyond the wit of the US polity to guarantee. Please, just respond to the question - do you agree that every person should have the right to cast a ballot free from the interference of any agent of any political party or elected …
Posted to Keep the Voting Rights Act Alive
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Hmm Natalie, Big government is the problem here is it? Constitutional issues with guaranteeing that every body has the right to cast an effective vote, in order to protect against the Monarch hey? That last bit is a bit rich, since the Monarch against which you say your constitiutional creators struggled, would no more have approved of guarantees of a universal right to cast a secret ballot than your founding fathers did. I don't know what small government has got to do with it. I am on about the state of a government's democratic credentials, not its size. I don't know …
Posted to Keep the Voting Rights Act Alive
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Can someone answer my question please, preferably Natalie. What is it about the US political class that makes it as a whole(both Democrat and Republican) so reluctant to guarantee every US citizen a vote, to appoint independent non partisan commissioners to oversee and conduct, enrolement, placement of voting booths, conduct of elections and counting of ballots? The Cold War anti communist rhetoric here is simply incredible to an outsider (ie a foreigner, citizen of another country, subject of Empire I guess). You see Natalie to an outsider like myself, it looks a tad suspicious that when a discussion about the right …
Posted to Keep the Voting Rights Act Alive
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Natalie, I see you prefer to conduct a debate about:- 1. Who is 'soft on Communism' and whether the poele posting here are communists and 2. Who is soft on criminals. rather than the topic at hand, which is the importance of the fundamental guarantee of a right to vote absolutely free from any interference on behalf of political operatives or their orgnaisations. Hmmm. Could I ask you again please, although I now know better than to expect a reasoned and respectful reply. Do you, or do you not, support the right to vote of evey person, in the way I …
Posted to Keep the Voting Rights Act Alive
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Natalie, For the record, as if it matters to the matters at hand, I come from Australia whose government has indeed commited us to the illegal invasion of Iraq. Although the decision made little difference in our national elections last year, be assurred, the majority of the people opposed our intervention in support of the US, and still do so. This is a diversion from the matter at hand. I am unimpressed with your quotes from some dopey Senator about voting machines, and how good they may or may not be. What gives me the creeps is how quickly this discussion …
Posted to Keep the Voting Rights Act Alive
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Whether or not the split in the US labour movement means growth or further decline, will depend more on the behaviour of all the movement than on whether people support the Democratic party or not. IMO, it will be important for all players to ensure that there is unity at local levels and cooperation in industries and on campaigns that will make a difference. In general I am in favour of people being able to work in creative ways, and being free to develop new and innovative methods of doing things. Unity is a positive thing, but unity that stifles action …
Posted to Gods and Mortals
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The problem with union rights requiring judges and courts to uphold them is that they ossify and become the target of lawyers and others who wish to destroy them. In Australia over 100 years of union organisation and award rights is about to be torn up by the current conservative government. In my view the rights and powers that unions stand for have now been decisively rejected by the political class in both the US and here in OZ. This means that we are facing a situation unprecedented since the 1920s in your country, and since the 1850s in mine. The …
Posted to Labor Split a Mixed Bag
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No, John Howard is not worse than George Bush, because he has less power, not because he is a nicer guy! His whole career has been built on 'kiss up, kick down' politics ever since he left his father's service station in a suburb of Sydney, did law, and decided to spend the rest of his life helping those that have more, get more! Back to your question. Australians have had the good fortune to have a more social democratic polity than the US, and as a consequence, we have far more social and economic equality here than you guys have-up …
Posted to Labor Split a Mixed Bag
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Liberal, Don't be downhearted. I know a little about what has happended in the US, and it sure is a shame. But when has the media anywhere ever supported working people's aspirations? The fact is that that the ruling classes everywhere have become emboldened in the post cold era. We have to rebuild a new progressive movement which takes on their power with as much tenacity and fight as the movement which imposed some control on the bastards after the great Depression and the second world war. I know it stinks, believe me-it is unbelievable what they think they can get …
Posted to Labor Split a Mixed Bag
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cabdriverinchicago You may be right about the current split in the US labor movement, but nevertheless I am sad that it has come to this. In Australia I suspect there is a greater ideological convergence in the movement than in the US, simply because it is a more ideologically united country overall. I am not underplaying the very real differences that exist here-particularly between the labour movement and our opponents, and our levels of migration since ww2 have been even larger (proportionately) than even the US. This has provided the labour movement with a rich addition of labour movement heritages and …
Posted to Labor Split a Mixed Bag
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An organisational split is not as disastrous as you might think hurd. IMO, new ideas and new ways of working can often bloom in a situation where the some poeple feel freer to do their own thing. The rela test is to ensure that organisational split at the top doesnt ranslate into splitting and wrecking at the grass roots. There is a real need it seems to me for goodwill, recognition of honest diffrences, and collaboration rather than competition between unions in the various indsutries. If that can be achieved, and if the coalition that left behaves in a principled fashion, …
Posted to Labor Split a Mixed Bag
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n*t*, I agree that money needs to be poured into organising, rather than donating to a political party. I also agree with your point about supporting good candidates rather than simply a party per se. However, it is not an either or question. Whether or not the Dempcrats have ever been a labor party seems to me to be irrelevant. The ALP in Ausrtalia has been a labour party, and it is struggling to define itself against the current neoliberal assault as well, although it is not as bad as the Democrats - yet. My point is that building another party, …
Posted to Labor Split a Mixed Bag
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My point is, at the risk of repeating myself, that any goal which seeks to change the way political business is done anywhere, requires a mass base of support to make the changes. Build the mass base, (organising, creative campaigns etc;) and you will be in a position to demand changes that are in your interests. Again, what I see here, is avoidance of the hard questions. What is to be done about building a mass base which has the capacity to challenge power as it is now constituted in the US? Political parties are merely expressions of a base, they …
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