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In reply to the discussion: Paul Krugman rediscovers Marxism--what's next? Fire? The wheel? [View all]byeya
(2,842 posts)you and me and other workers and retirees. It used to be they'd keep a low profile but with the celeb crush the corporate media has, they've become front line.
I go back to the civil rights days when the few red unions were in the forefront and MLK was just asking to have the Africans Americans cut into the pie. MLK wised up and saw the Viet Nam war for what it was and what the imperialist intents of NATO were and changed his message. SNCC was a huge help to his consciousness but in the beginning, it was a few members of unions on the outs with the AFL-CIO and progressive African Americans until the beatings, murders, and general clampdown forged an alliance between the mainstream black fighters for justice, students, and the original left who were from all races and national origin mainly held together with the glue of union solidarity.
There were several stops along the way and several are regularly pointed out but I would like to mention the Greensboro sit-ins and the fight for equal access along the truck stops on Rte 40 in Maryland as being two that don't deserve to be forgotten.