Status Updates From Blue-Collar Empire: The Unt...

“As with the Brazilian coup in 1964, [US Labor] leaders argued that the new military regime in Chile would somehow open the door to "free" trade unionism. Once again, the exact opposite happened”

I fuckin hate these ppl man

“Even as industrial corporations increasingly moved production outside of the heavily unionized Northeast and Upper Midwest to the non-union South and Southwest, the top officials of the AFL-CIO… were uninterested in organizing new workers” and “instead devoted much of their time to waging the Cold War overseas”

Unionism fell from 30% to 6% of workers over the last 75 years but thank God for no communism!

“Neither Stalin nor Standard Oil… We do not believe that our choice is between Wall Street and the Kremlin”

Yeah well, those were the two options and you chose Wall Street. Sitting here seething reading about how US labor unions have been selling out workers for 100 years bc they were blindly anti-communist.

“The world we inhabit today—one in which capital flows effortlessly across nations and multibillionaires take joyrides into outer space while a subjugated global working class remains bounded by militarized borders on an ecologically degraded planet—was shaped most decisively by the US government’s actions during the Cold War”🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥