Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:40:42 -0500 (EST)
Subject: M-G: new voice? (fwd)




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Date: 25 Nov 96 02:48:15 EST
From: neil <74742.1651-AT-CompuServe.COM>
To: "Recip. Of Conf." <labr.party-AT-conf.igc.apc.org>
Cc: Curt <cansv-AT-igc.apc.org>, JS Daborn <J.S.Daborn-AT-sheffield.ac.uk>,
    marx-gen <marxism-general-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu>,
    "A. Smeaton" <smeatoaj-AT-uwec.edu>
Subject: new voice?

dear friends,

Bob Malecki (BM) has gone into paroxysms  over criticism
of bourgeois trade unionism & his own obsequious 
fawning over left postruring  union  hacks  so as to grease the 
skids to getting  his own  'leadership' style  at the head of
the unions.

BM  won't advance any serious materialist critique of the 
unions  pro- corporate and pro-state collaboration  in the
modern epoch. He refuses to see the unions have qualatatively
degenerated from bonified organs of the working class
when they were first  formed in the last century to the taming, bribery,
and pro-capitalist institutionalization and company unionism
you see today . E.g. Delivering up enormous concessions and
 knifing mass workers fights at GM, South Gate (closed) GM Van Nuys
 (closed) Hormel, Pittston, Greyhound, Phelps/dodge, Massey, 
Caterpillar and Staley just to name a few key  battles in the US
 where the AFL Benedict Arnolds of labor have delivered up  hundreds of
thousands of workers up to the tender mercies of capital and its state.
BM, lance man  for the labor fakers, wants to cover all this up.

Of course BM, various  unions have arisen under capitalism .
Capitalism ,  the market system need the institution of
legal trade unions wedded to the system  to  control the
resentment of workers who are being robbed by the 
wages system  and to get the workers to accept the 
existsing order and the system of wage slavery. This 
is why you never see the unions use their strong arm men 
and muscle against the capitalists and their cops/ goons but
only against  radical militants, anarchists,  syndicalists,
communists, etc.

You should be a lawyer BM, as you have more respect  for
legal bourgeois union contracts than do the bourgeois 
themselves.  ABC stuff here. The bosses only respect 
contracts in tandem with the pumping out maximum 
profits  from  the labor power they exploit . Countless times,
 when  when bosses   can strangle workers struggle with the 
'contract language", they always get their judicial lackeys 
to enforce these contracts!  When the bosses  file for
fraudulent bankrupcies and further cheat workers,  again,the
 bourg. law court lackeys are always at the  beck and call of
capital,  fiding 'loop holes" so they can flush BMs "sacred'
 union contracts.
Only the actual rising of militant workers struggle and 
orgnization can change this equation around for workers.

BM hails the AFL support for imperialist  WW1 because after 
all " it gave birth to the October revolution in Russia" .To get
revolution, BM supports the  posadist concept that if the 
imperialist system can just butcher enough workers, well then,
certainly revolution will be just around the corner. So conerning
WW1, to BM anyway, Verdun, Tannenburg  and the Somme 
were the best things that could happen for the working class
 there because to BM, "WW1 gave birth to the October revolution
in Russia  and the rise of the communist parties and tendencies 
throughout the western and eastern words........"
BM has become today a shameless lackey for the trade union
chauvinists and imperilaist war itself.

And in  the next sentence on WW1 , BM  is  still in raptures over
this imperialist slauhghter of workers  as the war after all also
 led to " the strenghtening of the reformist  Social Democratic Parties
 . Are you saying that this was a bad thing for the working class?"
Yes  I am BM, because your social democratic parties joined with 
the capitalist state, the freikorps and white guardists to help
the capitalists bath the post war workers revolutionary upsurge in the 
blood of many tens of thousands of  brave revolutionary marxist 
proletarians and other militant soviet and councilist workers.

BM is also a good recruiting sergeant for imperialism in WW2.
He cannot see taking an internationalist position of principled
opposition to any imperialist  war.
BM takes sides with the anit-fascist imperialist camp over the
fascist imperialist camp, instead of opposing both camps 
of butchers of workers.
BM covers for  Russias alliance with nazi Germany  because 
of the later victory of the Russian army over the German nazis.
But BM, didn't the American , French , British, Canadian
 Greek, armies also fight tooth and nail  to defeat the fascists?
You really want to get the band out and pin the medals on them
too as did your nationalist union leaders  , don't you BM? Why, 
they  might even give you a medal for your "patriotism" too! 

You like to pose  the questions but you don't answer any. 
Again as concerns WW2, where 55 millions, mainly workers,
 were butchered by the Democracies and the fascists.
What do you think the USA would have done to the Japanese 
civilians in special camps had the tide of battle turned aginst the
US? And c'mon BM answer , no more of your coverups for bourgeois
imperialist democracy and the nature of WW2!

And by the way BM, the US AFL/CIO trade union leaders were some
 of the most gung ho , other than the KKK types and the California  banks 
and land grabbers , for packing the US Japanese  off to speicial 
camps in WW2. Again you are in great company BM!

Your apologetics for the unions collaboration with the capitalist offensive 
 today has not been backed up by a shread of real material evidence.
I know of what i speak not form theory  alone. I have been in the 
midst of  class  events where  your unions blocked with the bosses and
even the cops against workers . I have seen rank and file militants
beaten senseless not just by cops, but by union muscle men too.
South Gate GM in 1978 is a good example of this.
I have seen the craft unions demand and get   hundreds of workers
in other AFL/CIO unions fired  , give concessions, so they they could keep 
collecting dues. (LA state workers , 1991)
Then there is the list of other base crimes of the unions against the
workers i have listed, and there are  hundreds of others to be sure.
A few of which others of this list have recently  alluded to.
 BM, Enough of your blowhard spart mantras and name calling !  Put up 
or shut up!


Neil


















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