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Iranians form human chains at bridges and power plants
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If this happens we all need to be off our asses and in the streets. No memes, no shitposting, on the fucking streets. It’s already been way too long and far for this administration to continually hold the world hostage.
We don't need to let it happen first. We should be already on the streets.
Very true
General Strike. Don't work, don't shop.
I don't think US Americans are capable
im outside every single time but nothing crazy ever happens except police brutality like tear gas and arrests and energized republicans
Sure but there's so many far easier things. Buy spray paint and go out at night and write some thoughts on the walls. Do easy things that are a little bit out of your comfort zone.
There's no way the US is going into france protest mode over a president, it has been proven. Trump could kill half the country and the other half would go to work.
Unfortunately true. Half who voted still support him after all.
Organize committees in work places and represent as labor. Don’t wait for the union leaders who stifle the power of labor for their own gain any chance they get. The working class needs to take this into our own hands as a class…not as individuals.
Classes need coherency and leverage in order to make demands, which is typically done by coordinating leadership. We have leverage, but how are we supposed to realize any of it without class coherency? If you can’t, then it sounds more like you’re aiming to create a new political party… right?
In another world, the government would help curate a coherent working class by strengthening and encouraging workers unions and coalitions between them.
The working class has all the leverage we need…. We literally make the world run with our labor, and the world does not run without it. We do need leadership, but independent of the labor bureaucrats, most of whom sell us out or limits our class struggle. Workers can form their own committees within their unions to start mobilizing their power.
I feel like this has been tried before, though, in the 1900s. What makes this time different? Do we have a better strategy, now?
They were successful in 1917. This is worth studying!
The first step is to build a unified movement, rooted in the working class, that builds a revolutionary consciousness.
Leftists in various parties/orgs need to unite around some basic principles and fight together. We need to unite around agreements while we continue to hash out differences for clarity regarding the way forward. Both can happen at the same time.
To not unite around agreements is to be sectarian, and this is castrating the power of the left….in addition to some parties and orgs actively pushing a liberal agenda, doing nothing but helping to build illusions that the bourgeois parties will work in the interest of the working class.
Tbf this should have happened under W, Obama, the first Trump admin, but especially since j6