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There's news that the congressional republicans are offering a "compromise" that demands strict concessions from the labour unions. This has to be stopped.
The labour unions are the only group on the left who know how to put up a good and proper fight. No one, not the intelligista, not the greens, not the feminists, for all their lofty ideals, knows how to fight like labour does. They must be preserved.
The death of labout is the disease of the left. That's why the left continues to lose the argument, even when democrats win. (Death Penalty anyone? What about gay rights? Cuts in defence spending? Worker rights?). Ever wonder why the left is so much more effective in Europe?
If Republicans succeed in finally snuffing out the labour movement in the United States, then THAT will be the beginning of the end of any pretensions of progressive politics in the USA. And no amount of pretty speechifying will do anything about it.
