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

  • 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