Forget Elections – Labor Needs to Get Back to Its Roots
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Nov. 20, 2018 | SOLIDARITY | […] Partisan and competitive thinking insidiously affects behavior. Fifty percent plus one passes for solidarity. Unionists succumb to political speak, sounding like Washington rather than “folks ‘round here.” We blame workers for voting for Republicans. If they’d only voted how we told them, then we could get things done. We estrange ourselves from large chunks of workers while giving ourselves an excuse for failure. We don’t have to do the hard work of building a movement, we only need to win an election. Maybe we should rethink that. Instead, start today from where we are and who we are… In These Times
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