What is the role of trade unions in modern capitalist society? Two facts stand out clearly: that governments all over the world, faced with a deepening economic crisis which brings with it the growing threat of social chaos, are calling on the trade unions to help preserve the fragile equilibrium of capitalist society; and, that wherever the working class attempts to resist the effects of the crisis, the trade unions are amongst its most determined and ruthless opponents. With a new introduction.
Raises some important points and I do have some sympathy with it. However, it reads like a weird dogmatic rant and some parts of their theory of decadence just seem wrong?