Okay, I hate to send anyone to a site such as the Communist Party USA but I've linked it just in case someone doesn't believe this. I went to this site simply to see what it mentions about trade unions and their role in toppling capitalism in America and how these same unions would serve as the instigator of socialism and then communism in America.
I found some interesting parallels here that I do believe are shockingly reflective with what we are seeing in America right now. Think about the power that has been unveiled by community action organizations such as ACORN and then think about the rise to power of unions like the SEIU and the UAW in recent months. Who has been to the White House the most of anyone in America as a visitor? Andy Stern. Andy Stern is President of the SEIU.
Anyway, look at this excerpt from the Communist Party USA site and tell me it doesn't scare the ever-loving shit out of you:
I found some interesting parallels here that I do believe are shockingly reflective with what we are seeing in America right now. Think about the power that has been unveiled by community action organizations such as ACORN and then think about the rise to power of unions like the SEIU and the UAW in recent months. Who has been to the White House the most of anyone in America as a visitor? Andy Stern. Andy Stern is President of the SEIU.
Anyway, look at this excerpt from the Communist Party USA site and tell me it doesn't scare the ever-loving shit out of you:
The working class plays a leading role in the struggle for various demands, but many of the key needs of working people cannot be won by the trade union movement or the working class alone. Unions must engage in coalitions with community, civil rights, women’s, student, senior, and other organizations in order to increase their combined ability to win against a powerful enemy. From strike struggles to legislative initiatives to the fight for the White House, labor must build unity with other social forces to achieve victory. Only the unity of millions of working people led by the working class can win a revolutionary struggle.
The unity of labor and community cannot be based solely on the demands and leadership of labor. Labor must take up the fight for the demands of its allies on the basis of mutual trust and commitment. This allows for the working class to establish its leading role among the mass movements as a whole. The Communist Party always seeks to build principled unity among the working class and all progressive social forces to further their interests and power.
New levels of unity and new alliances and coalitions have developed in the working class movement in the recent period. The common struggle against capitalist globalization has ushered in an advanced phase of working unity between the labor movement, the environmental movement, the student movement, and others. Shifts in labor’s immigration policy have allowed a new level of unity with immigrant rights organizations. Labor has increased its support of and work with labor/student solidarity organizations in recent years. There is a constant need to reinforce and defend this unity on the basis of common work, mutual respect, and understanding.
At all strategic stages of struggle from the present to the construction of socialism, the working class is the most important and consistent class and the only one whose interests are entirely on the side of progress and socialism. That does not mean that at every moment, in every struggle, it will in fact be the leader. But the working class will tend more and more to become the leader of struggles for progress and socialism.
The working class, however, cannot be the sole force in these struggles, because its opponents at each stage are powerful, with great resources at their command. There are other major social forces whose interests substantially parallel those of the working class as a whole. Only with the maximum of unity and powerful alliances can victory in a peaceful manner be assured.
The labor movement is the organized sector of the working class and is the key strategic factor to achieving fundamental social change. The diversity of the labor movement is growing in composition and leadership in recent years. The working class is constantly being joined by some who were once independent professionals—including doctors and engineers— but are now employees of vast corporations. The labor movement is no longer limited to “pure and simple” trade union struggles. It plays a major, often leading role, in legislative and electoral struggles and has developed a large and increasingly independent labor electoral apparatus. It has developed on-going relationships with organizations of the nationally and racially oppressed, women, students, and others. It is increasingly seeking forms of international labor cooperation.
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"The Communist Party always seeks to build principled unity among the working class & all progressive social forces to further their interests & power."
Whoa!!! Sure gave me chills...plays
out like a well scripted horror movie, scaring the shit out of all
who SEE it, or should I say, that
"choose" to SEE it...God help us!
GREAT post Holger, thanks!!!
GOD Bless America & Our Troops...
silence is NOT an option!
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