Global Issues: Bringing Class Back In
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- Published on Saturday, 19 September 2015 22:15
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Socialist Interventions -- 20 September 2015:
Global Issues: Bringing Class Back In
The new unionism of the 1930s brought dramatic new tactics such as the sit-downs, new strategies that included industry-wide bargaining, and spread new forms of in-plant democracy based on the shop steward system. Today union structures are again in crisis, but nothing comparable to the labour explosion of the 30s has yet emerged or is even much talked about. When those of us who support labour by silencing ourselves out of sensitivity to the assault it's facing, we do labour no favour. Nothing is more important to the renewal of the labour movement than to soberly confront the mess it's in and encourage the most open and creative discussion of how it might move on.
Sam Gindin argues that bringing class back in must stand at the center of such discussions.
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