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

  • star_wraith [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Not gonna pretend that developing socialism in the imperial core is anything other than a million-to-one shot right now, but if there was an avenue to make it happen, one potential one would be the fact that the overwhelming majority of workers fucking HATE their jobs. But since Americans have an easier time imaging the end of the world than they do the end of capitalism, instead of agitating for workers rights, we put that energy into dreams of running our own businesses one day. That's their ticket out of hellworld. If you ask workers if they like the idea of not having to worry about losing your job and then losing their home, or ask if they like the idea of workplace democracy, you'll get extreme majorities that agree. The hurdle is just getting over preconceived notions of socialism.

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

      IMO the main role and mindset socialists in the imperial core should have and strive towards is to just make life and the way of doing things here plain hell for the capitalists. We have to make things completely untenable and unreasonable the same way they have for us for the last 50+ years.