Wage stagnation and the ever-greater concentration of wealth at the very top will not be halted by appeals to the bribed stooges of Wall Street in Congress or any of the other institutions of the corporate-financial oligarchy. Only the renewal of working class struggle on the basis of an anti-capitalist and socialist program will change the situation.
[premium_newsticker id=”154171″]Parting shot—a word from the editors
The Best Definition of Donald Trump We Have Found
In his zeal to prove to his antagonists in the War Party that he is as bloodthirsty as their champion, Hillary Clinton, and more manly than Barack Obama, Trump seems to have gone “play-crazy” -- acting like an unpredictable maniac in order to terrorize the Russians into forcing some kind of dramatic concessions from their Syrian allies, or risk Armageddon.However, the “play-crazy” gambit can only work when the leader is, in real life, a disciplined and intelligent actor, who knows precisely what actual boundaries must not be crossed. That ain’t Donald Trump -- a pitifully shallow and ill-disciplined man, emotionally handicapped by obscene privilege and cognitively crippled by white American chauvinism. By pushing Trump into a corner and demanding that he display his most bellicose self, or be ceaselessly mocked as a “puppet” and minion of Russia, a lesser power, the War Party and its media and clandestine services have created a perfect storm of mayhem that may consume us all.— Glen Ford, Editor in Chief, Black Agenda Report
I remember well during an (un)authorized strike cira 1969 in which I was involved as a union leader. The district union representative called and asked me to tell the workers to go back to work. That was the ‘official’ position. The unofficial position was what my rep said afterwards: “But don’t let me catch you crossing any picket lines”.
Today, union leaders ‘bosses’ live in gated communities and hobnob with the elites, hang out with their neoliberal democrat pals…..in other words F….ing Useless.
This does reflect the middle class perspective, I suppose. The middle class are less than half the population. As for any bourgeois concerns about “the struggles of the working class,” notice how those concerns instantly vanish when workers get pushed out of the job market, into poverty. We’re stuck with reality out here. Not everyone can work (health, etc.) and there aren’t jobs for all. The last I heard (over a year ago), there were seven jobs for every ten jobless people who still had the means to pursue one (home address, phone, etc.). The US shut down/shipped out a… Read more »