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If I understand you correctly, this guy is a real enemy of the younger worker then, if he'd quit rather than give them decent working rights. And where is the Left on this????

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia
by whataboutbob on Thu Feb 9th, 2006 at 01:46:20 PM EST
The lest is at home watching the evening programming, obviously.

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Feb 9th, 2006 at 01:49:28 PM EST
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I hope that you are able to resist this, over here in USA this has been going on for a long time and it is just another failure to stand together and resist the hegemony of the corporations.  We are about to get a good dose of it here as the post-WWII generation starts to retire and we quickly eat up all the under-funded pensions.  Assuming, and I think there are good reasons for the assumption, that we can oust the Republican party from the Presidency and the Congress over the next couple of elections we will be looking to Europe for ideas.

"I said, 'Wait a minute, Chester, You know I'm a peaceful man...'" Robbie Robertson
by NearlyNormal on Thu Feb 9th, 2006 at 02:59:35 PM EST
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the bulk of leftist leaders are decent people (by a politician's standards), ie not ready to rip off all their formers friends and allies to get one step higher.
It may be that they are just not mischievous enough to play along the rules of the current Right.

When through hell, just keep going. W. Churchill
by Agnes a Paris on Fri Feb 10th, 2006 at 05:05:47 PM EST
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My experience of student politics is that leftist are more interested in principles and rightists are more interested in power. Leftist are idealists and rightists are pragmatic. Leftists bicker and infight, while rightists just insert themselves as cogs in the machine and make their way up.

It's actually amazing (and encouraging) that the left actually manages to win elections sometimes. When they do, they honestly try to do the best thing even if it spoils their chances of re-elections.

guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Feb 10th, 2006 at 05:10:13 PM EST
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