Green unionism?
Nov 7 2006 15:54
http://www.iww.org.uk/about/updates/061106-green/index.html
Quote:
Many thanks to Dan Jakopovich for submitting this article on Green Unionism, in which he argues that only working people, with their hands on the levers of production, have the power to protect our environment through grass roots organisation and action.
admin: moved to thought forum, as requested. and please include an abstract so people know what they're clicking on ;)
Nov 7 2006 16:08
#2
that should go in our library, as it has good info on stuff we haven't covered yet like Bari and the lumber stuff, the UK nuclear-dumping sailors (you got a source for that by the way?) and some of the aussie stuff.
The article echoes the sentiment of our environment feature - http://libcom.org/thought/environment . But your article does naively argue for pacifism, a redundant a meaningless ideology, which you also seem to try to paint as a Wobbly tactic, when they were - sensibly - not, as workers used to have armed strikes and engage in gun battles with bosses' thugs. Pacifists would have seen them all shot to death and their strikes crushed.
Nov 7 2006 16:23
#3
The argument is less for pacifism "as commonly defined", and more about the need to
a)oppose middle-class "eco-warrior" attacks on workers
b)rely on the masses and their non-cooperation with the system - you could say it's more about the "war of position" than the "war of movement" (although the latter might also have a tactical role to play), to put it in Gramscian terms
The author of course doesn't go into the issues of splitting up the armed forces etc. etc. which would be an extension of this theme.
sorry can someone please remove it to the Thought section.