At a Convention Like No Other, Teamster Challengers Turn a Corner
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This was a Teamsters convention like no other—and not just because it was held online, avoiding the usual Las Vegas spectacle where a few brave reformers run a gauntlet of booing red-vested

This is big news because it signals a militant and social turn for the Teamsters. This is one of the biggest unions in the country, and it's moving left fast. Fuck democratic party entryism, this is where it's at

  • quarantine_man [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Eh, it'll turn out to be nothing in time. Best case scenario there's a couple measly concessions for some (enough to shut people up and diffuse things) and it's back to business as usual

    • HamManBad [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Nothing ever changes, until it does. We're either building a socialist movement or headed for straight up fascism in the long run, the idea that we're going back to "business as usual" is undialectical

    • jabrd [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Doubt it. Feels like the machine can’t make concessions anymore. We’ve been in the same crisis of a declining rate of profit since the 70s. They’ve been carving out a pound of flesh to cover for it but that can only go so far

      • quarantine_man [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        No, they haven't had to make any concessions since the New Deal. They've just been hollowing everything out since then.

    • fuckwit [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      The conditions are so much starker here than anywhere in the west. We have by far the most potential because the leftist e*ros have been resting on their laurels for the past 30 years and haven't accomplished shit. They're pudgy and complacent because of what their fathers accomplished, purely sucdems now.

      Our movement is nascent, ripe for radicalization, we'll have more grit and grind to us as the years go by. The fash will probably win, of course, but we'll be fighting the good fight while the French dweebs eat shit.

      :troll:

    • budoguytenkaichi [he/him,they/them]
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      3 years ago

      You're getting dunked on...but you're probably right.

      Remember when the George Floyd uprisings were "totally gonna set off the revolution finally you guys!!!"?

      • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Those things don't set off revolutions, but they're major events conciousness building wise. You are what you do, so getting thousands to rebel makes thousands of rebels.

      • TeethOrCoat [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        At the time, I heard that it wasn't going to set off the revolution but that the assessment that the US had no revolutionary potential was either wrong or jumping the gun.

      • Dingdangdog [he/him,comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        It set a bunch of people leftwards. Yeah there's the famous examples of the libs turncoating immediately, but there was a non-insignificant amount of class consciousness raised there, especially in minority groups