A Reply to Nelson Lichtenstein: Assessing Union Leaderships

http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/1993
Date Written:  1997-09-01
Publisher:  Against the Current
Year Published:  1997
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX11386

What is the relation of even the most liberal bureaucrats to capital (why do they inevitably downplay the fight for equality, why are they so much in favor of collaboration, corporatist approaches, in contrast to class mobilization)? It is important to carefully dissect the approaches (without sentimentality or holding back) of those groups that purported to be for class solidarity and opposed to capitalism and capitalists.

Subject Headings

• Labour History
• Labour Unions