AT MAY DAY CHICAGO, MAINSTREAM LEFT NO LONGER DISTANCED FROM RADICALS

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Not too many people remember May Day last year. Of course, a few videos and images made their way onto the cables before the evening news that Sunday. But as I was going through footage of the Haymarket Riot Reenactment in Chicago that I covered earlier that day, news broke of a big announcement coming from the White House and nobody knew what it was. About 15 minutes later, hundreds of college kids were chanting “USA, USA,” outside the White House, celebrating the death of Osama Bin Laden.

Subsequently, there was zero coverage of May Day. Sure, you could find it if you looked for it, but as I recall, the images and videos that presented an accurate picture of the International Labor Movement’s most cherished day of the year were lost in the excitement of America’s greatest enemy--greatest enemy of the past 10 years, that is.

America's other greatest enemy--communism, socialism, anarchism, left wing collectivism, neo-liberalism, or what ever you want to call it--was alive and well, and it was on the move. And thanks to a strange coincidence, that evening, all those evil entities once again passed by, operating under the cover of darkness, right under our noses. And they were allowed to thrive for one more year, virtually undetected by mainstream Americans who simply don’t have time to keep up with the ongoing revolution.

What is the key difference between then and now? Back then, the union bosses, the unionists, the radical progressive caucus members, and the rest of the Democratic Party were still calling all those communists and anarchists in the street a “fringe element—protest vultures.”

“You can’t lump the whole the group into one category,” I remember Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky telling me one night this past January during an interview. Yet that didn’t stop her or any of the other Occupiers, union members, and “civil rights” leaders from marching “as one, in solidarity.” Not as long as it helped them increase their crowd sizes and the impact of their intimidating tactics.

Two days ago at May Day in Chicago, however, the tone changed--at least, the tone of those who claimed they were “together but separate.” First off, the number of radical organizations at least matched the number of unions. There were no protest vultures here; everywhere you looked was a radical group. The Communist Party U.S.A. was in the house, along with the Progressive Labor Party, the American Party of Labor, Black Bloc anarchists, the Revolutionary Communist Party, Democratic Socialists of America, and the list goes on and on. Along with them were the trade unionists; the Teamsters Union, Unite Here Local 1 (the hotel and hospitality workers union), National Nurses United, Postal Workers, and even the Association of Street Vendors--who by the way, had no clue why they were there or what their signs said, and still found it more important to protest than to use the protest as a place to set up their push carts and have a productive, successful day.

I wondered whether there was anything different about this year’s annual May Day celebration and whether or not these trade unions and union bosses, more specifically, felt they were marching in solidarity--as one--with these radical elements, or if they thought they represented something different. And what surprised me the most was that everyone I asked--not just a few--no longer had any problem marching alongside communist and anarchist revolutionaries.

[Draggingtree]

May 4, 2012

 

 

BEWARE THE MOB that advocates “fairness.” “History is replete with Peoples’ movements that, claiming weight of numbers and well-meaning intentions for others, have changed the course of society–but not necessarily for the better. In other words, pathologically altruistic movements.”

From Barbara Oakley, author of Pathological Altruism.