If we believe the filthy rich press and media, American workers are the world's most sluggish and overpaid and deserve to be busted and rebusted. . The Plutocrats who own the big newspapers, TV and Radio Networks bore us daily with why their teeny intelligence, crooked hearts and soft butts warrant billions while our incompetence deserves wage, benefit and job cuts. The Big Media tells us just about everything except the truth.
G. K. Chesterton observed: "Knowledge is now a monopoly, and comes through to the citizens in thin and selected streams, exactly as bread might come through to a besieged city. Men must wish to know what is happening, whoever has the privilege of telling them. They must listen to the messenger even if he is a liar. They must listen to the liar even if he is a bore. The official journalist has for some time past has been both a bore and a liar; but it was impossible until lately to neglect his sheets of news altogether. Lately we have really begun to find out that Capitalism cannot write, just as it cannot fight, or pray, or marry, or make a joke, or do any other stricken human thing."
The filthy rich use their media to praise themselves while bashing us. They deserve unlimited wealth and power. We deserve unemployment, unjust war, cuts and poverty. When was the last time we saw in their print the fact that America now has 36 million people in poverty while the rich export the productive capacity of our country while profiting immensely from war? The truth is, they stand against us in every way and their lies are designed to turn us against each other.
Let us settle for the truth. To win the AMFA strike early let's tell the truth about our own potential power. Let's use our newsletters, email and internet connections to settle on a common strategy.
Our voice then, needs to be raised country-wide in defense of the basic goodness, not of the rich individual but the modest working class family and the values of solidarity. We need a truthful voice to combat those claims of the left and right elite that say we are no damn good. Our voice needs to be everywhere pointing out the fact that most of us do our best to stand up for each other every day. Our voice needs to point out daily, who is really to blame for all our disunity and who gets the credit for defending what's left of solidarity.
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Today, and all these days, we can point out that the AMFA strikers at NW Airlines are fighting for us all. The AMFA fighters are under attack by all the allies of NW Airlines: The Big Media, the Big Corporations, the Big Bankers and Speculators and the Big Unions. But the truth is the AMFA strikers are our Brothers and Sisters in Solidarity and Trade Unionism. They are men and women of courage and honesty and deserve our friendship and support and THE CONVERSATION about how we win this strike.
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Like the P-9rs, the CAT and Accuride workers, the AMFA strikers deserve a real solidarity movement and democratic direct action to WIN the strike. By direct action we mean the traditional actions of a democratic solidarity movement: sympathy strikes, slowdowns, workplace takeovers, general strikes. The truth is, the tactics of the Traditional Trade Union Movement will still work, can still win.
We are not there yet. But we CAN get there overnight by simply connecting ourselves in a common sense conversation about what we all need to do to win. Sure we've been hurt. But we are NOT the problem. We have been separated for years by strikebreakers and dog eat doggers. But we can win when we connect ourselves in a national conversation about what is true about family and working class virtue.
No working class in world history has the potential to connect itself like we do. We need to look to ourselves to kick off a new solidarity movement to popularize the idea of maybe simply doing less. Thank about it: An organized vacation would win this strike. An organized move to show our bosses what a human workplace is could win this strike. Forget dog-eat-dog. Let's talk General Strike! Let's start connecting to win! Talk with us in Solidarity Now!
Tom Laney, former president of UAW Local 879 at the St. Paul Ford plant, writes on labor issues from his home in Colfax, Wis.
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If we believe the filthy rich press and media, American workers are the world’s most sluggish and overpaid and deserve to be busted and rebusted. . The Plutocrats who own the big newspapers, TV and Radio Networks bore us daily with why their teeny intelligence, crooked hearts and soft butts warrant billions while our incompetence deserves wage, benefit and job cuts. The Big Media tells us just about everything except the truth.
G. K. Chesterton observed: “Knowledge is now a monopoly, and comes through to the citizens in thin and selected streams, exactly as bread might come through to a besieged city. Men must wish to know what is happening, whoever has the privilege of telling them. They must listen to the messenger even if he is a liar. They must listen to the liar even if he is a bore. The official journalist has for some time past has been both a bore and a liar; but it was impossible until lately to neglect his sheets of news altogether. Lately we have really begun to find out that Capitalism cannot write, just as it cannot fight, or pray, or marry, or make a joke, or do any other stricken human thing.”
The filthy rich use their media to praise themselves while bashing us. They deserve unlimited wealth and power. We deserve unemployment, unjust war, cuts and poverty. When was the last time we saw in their print the fact that America now has 36 million people in poverty while the rich export the productive capacity of our country while profiting immensely from war? The truth is, they stand against us in every way and their lies are designed to turn us against each other.
Let us settle for the truth. To win the AMFA strike early let’s tell the truth about our own potential power. Let’s use our newsletters, email and internet connections to settle on a common strategy.
Our voice then, needs to be raised country-wide in defense of the basic goodness, not of the rich individual but the modest working class family and the values of solidarity. We need a truthful voice to combat those claims of the left and right elite that say we are no damn good. Our voice needs to be everywhere pointing out the fact that most of us do our best to stand up for each other every day. Our voice needs to point out daily, who is really to blame for all our disunity and who gets the credit for defending what’s left of solidarity.
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Today, and all these days, we can point out that the AMFA strikers at NW Airlines are fighting for us all. The AMFA fighters are under attack by all the allies of NW Airlines: The Big Media, the Big Corporations, the Big Bankers and Speculators and the Big Unions. But the truth is the AMFA strikers are our Brothers and Sisters in Solidarity and Trade Unionism. They are men and women of courage and honesty and deserve our friendship and support and THE CONVERSATION about how we win this strike.
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Like the P-9rs, the CAT and Accuride workers, the AMFA strikers deserve a real solidarity movement and democratic direct action to WIN the strike. By direct action we mean the traditional actions of a democratic solidarity movement: sympathy strikes, slowdowns, workplace takeovers, general strikes. The truth is, the tactics of the Traditional Trade Union Movement will still work, can still win.
We are not there yet. But we CAN get there overnight by simply connecting ourselves in a common sense conversation about what we all need to do to win. Sure we’ve been hurt. But we are NOT the problem. We have been separated for years by strikebreakers and dog eat doggers. But we can win when we connect ourselves in a national conversation about what is true about family and working class virtue.
No working class in world history has the potential to connect itself like we do. We need to look to ourselves to kick off a new solidarity movement to popularize the idea of maybe simply doing less. Thank about it: An organized vacation would win this strike. An organized move to show our bosses what a human workplace is could win this strike. Forget dog-eat-dog. Let’s talk General Strike! Let’s start connecting to win! Talk with us in Solidarity Now!
Tom Laney, former president of UAW Local 879 at the St. Paul Ford plant, writes on labor issues from his home in Colfax, Wis.