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| Sunday, 11 October 2009 01:36 | ||||
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In the last CHALLENGE (9/30), the page 3 article “Call for Teachers’ Strike vs. Fascist School Reform,” is a scathing attack on L.A. school reform, but not much of what we are doing about it. PLP has been active there for some time, with some of our most committed cadre. But this reads more like a leaflet that might have been distributed at the meeting. We, as readers, need more information about what actions they are organizing. For example, it says that some teachers called for a strike at an area union meeting. How? Did they make a resolution? Did they give out a flier? Did it get discussed and/or voted on? What was the response of the union leaders? How did they take them on in the meeting? What was the response of other teachers? How are they working in the union to spread these ideas? How are they answering questions teachers have? How much support is there? How are they building a base for PLP? The article closes by saying that “a trade union response is totally inadequate,” and “PLP calls…[for a] strike…based on expanding CHALLENGE networks…” Are they expanding? If so, tell us how so we can follow that example. If not, what are the obstacles? The formulation makes it sound like PLP is trying to organize a strike led by us and our base, outside the unions and other mass organizations. If so, that would be a big mistake. Unions and other mass organizations are reform groups, even if we lead them. The same is true for strikes at Stella D’Oro and Boeing, or job actions against transit workers getting killed in Washington, DC. But if we are not in the thick of these struggles, fighting for our communist outlook and trying to lead workers in sharper more militant actions, we will just be spinning our wheels. The fake-left Trotskyite groups are always “calling” for a General Strike, or demanding the union leaders do something. But they are not the least bit interested in making anything happen. They attack PLP for “working with the liberals” because we are active in our unions. We shouldn’t make their same mistake. The revolutionary leader V.I. Lenin said that by fighting for the political leadership of the workers and leading class struggle, unions could become “schools for communism.” The founder of scientific communism, Karl Marx, said that workers would have to wage 50 years of class struggle in order to be fit to rule. By fighting shoulder to shoulder with workers within mass organizations, we can expand the circulation of CHALLENGE and the size and influence of PLP. A Chicago Comrade
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