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So my union might be taken over by capitalists. The member parliament didn’t vote for a plan by the supervisory board that would basically turn the union into a company where the supervisory board would appoint the board of directors instead of the member parliament. So now the supervisory board is suing the member parliament. One of the people in the supervisory board is a former politician for the socialdemocratic party who helped implement austerity policy. Proves that socialdemocracy serves to destroy the workers movement from within.
During the allied occupation of Germany, the us basically removed socialists from union leadership and put conservatives in their place, so nowdays unions just rubber stamp company policies. And remember it was polish unions that brought down their socialist republic.
Most unions (exceptions?) in the imperial core are not revolutionary in the slightest, their goal is securing overtime + wage stabilization for a select group of workers. You guys need land reform, capital controls + expropriation measures, employment & education provisions. None of that is a part of western leftist politics, including the stuff that postures as radical and antiimperialist. If it doesn’t even educate people on the economic structure of imperialism, how can it be revolutionary because it quotes Sankara? Mamdani is easy to criticize. People need to see what the PSL, the FRSO, and others are doing by repainting failed Vietnam War era sheepdog tactics that coincided with the repression of armed movements and the successes of Ho Chi Minh, taking credit for the sacrifices of the latter
Yeah. Remember when the dock workers union shutdown for a while but carved an exception for military shipments lol. America is a joke with zero class conscience.