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Omaha Steve

(98,872 posts)
Thu Oct 9, 2014, 09:22 PM Oct 2014

After Defeating Democrats, Will Ohio Unionists Form a New Labor Party?


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And this DU post from 2011: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1812319






http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/17227/defeat_democrats_independent_labor_party_ohio_lorain_county_unionists




Three independent city council members backed by unions won city council seats in Lorain, Ohio. What's next? (angelfire.com/mi2/LorainOhio/)


The relationship between the American labor movement and the Democratic Party has long been fairly predictable. For the better part of a century, labor has depended on the Democrats for favorable policy, and the Democrats have depended on labor for votes. Few from either side of the bargain anticipate an immediate future where that arrangement will be upset.

So when rumblings started coming out of Ohio late last year about breaking with the Democrats, many in the labor movement were startled. Last November, in the small county of Lorain, Ohio, local labor leaders who were intimately wedded to the Democratic establishment broke rank and supported three independent pro-labor candidates in county elections, all of whom won.

The act of rebellion in a union-dense county gained national attention as a story of labor flexing its muscles—and winning—against a Democratic establishment drifting rightward.

Considering Lorain along with the election of Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant, the first socialist in decades to be elected to public office in a major American city, Jennifer Roesch wrote for Jacobin after last year’s elections that “for the first time since 2000, there is a space opening up in mainstream politics to the left of the Democratic Party.”

FULL story at link.

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After Defeating Democrats, Will Ohio Unionists Form a New Labor Party? (Original Post) Omaha Steve Oct 2014 OP
Yee Jackpine Radical Oct 2014 #1
Works for me. LoisB Oct 2014 #2
I don't want to see the Democratic Party destroyed, Jackpine Radical Oct 2014 #3

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
1. Yee
Thu Oct 9, 2014, 09:27 PM
Oct 2014

[font size=8 color=red]Haw![/font] (and Hot Damn!)

This is about what it will take to jerk the Democratic Party back to humanity.

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
3. I don't want to see the Democratic Party destroyed,
Fri Oct 10, 2014, 09:59 AM
Oct 2014

but I would love to see it transformed into something more like the Party of the People, and sometimes short-term shocks are necessary for that.

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