
There is Power in a Union: The US Labor Strike Wave
Rev Left Radio
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The Left Benefits From the Right Struggle
In a worker struggle you stop seeing, let's say, your black co worker as somebody on the other side of a racial line. And that does more to humanize the other than almost anything else. Being involved directly in a struggle with that person for both of your economic benefit can do more to dismantle the white identity and the racialist nationalism that the right wants to promote. In that sense, it will always, i think, benefit the left and will be our advantage. The corporate, liberal democratic party, centre left also does it, but in the opposite way. So what they basically do is they elevate and centre the voices of a multi racial, but upper class crust. They obscure
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