PUERTO RICO LABOR CONFLICT, BETHLEHEM STEEL, AND MORE

One of our pseudo-Left mouthpieces, recently had a modestly decent report regarding labor struggles between the SEIU and Teachers Union in Puerto Rico, paralleling the Obama and Clinton campaigns. It should be noted SEIU is amongst the most corrupt, dictatorial, closed door, and mafia like unions in the US, and, it is not by coincidence that they are the largest labor supporter in Obama's, Chicago mafia campaign. The SEIU motto is similar to the amorphous Obama one, "Change to Win," sound and fury signifying nothing, unless, of course, one can interpret it to mean, change to me so I can win. Also, as pointed out in the following, SEIU is involved with further "internationalizing" unions! God help you all! One more point along these lines. After dissolving Iraq's previous, large, national, major, umbrella labor organization, which was attached to the WFTU, instead, Iraq's unions are fractionalized and NOW affiliated with the virulent, anti-Communist, ILO. The pattern is abundantly clear, and, extends everywhere, as well, to Europe, especially France's militant and Left led, CGT. So, now, the labor report from Puerto Rico regarding their recent Democratic primary rallies: www.democracynow.org/2008/6/3/juan_gonzalez_on_puerto_ricos_overlooked Since the above is one amongst the many fake Left programs, it is obligatory upon them to include some appropriate spin, misleading information or factual omission, somewhere, in the program in order to deflect the viewer from ever managing to reach clear conclusions and correct analysis. This is accomplished with subtlety, elsewhere. I won't bother elaborating further, since this is such a copious problem. Suffice it for me to make just one point. The next time you hear someone say Hillary's campaign is hypocritical by utilizing the concept that the "popular vote" matters, you might remind them that Obama's super delegates are emanating from states that voted OVERWHELMINGLY for Hillary, such as West Virginia, for one!! In other words, the one or two or three well placed political individuals from such states are contradicting the popular vote from the many hundreds of thousands!! So much for such arguments. They illuminate nothing and divert from the real issues. And the real issue is that Hillary and/or her backers, intentionally or unintentionally, are confronting, exposing, the Democratic mafia machine and the Republican, Nazi like, ersatz Obama campaign, that Hillary and/or her supporters should BREAK, bolt, leave, reject the corrupt Democratic-Republican Party corporate monopoly, join, REACH OUT to/with others to create a new, independent, third party, form a united front with clear alternatives and both a long and short term class program, platform, objectives and strategy. Plenty of people, allies, organizations exist looking for such a home. People such as Cynthia McKinney, herself, driven out of the Democratic Party by similiar tactics, the very principled, California Nurses Association, Ralph Nader, the panoply of organizations and individuals who DEMAND single payer universal health care, an end to overseas military expansion, corporate and government accountability,and, ultimately, preservation and expansion of the public ownership to include all industry and natural resources. In this ongoing, global battle against privatization and reactionary, counter revolution, different countries emerge historically from differing places, the US being amongst the most backwards. So, for example, in Pennsylvania, such a fully integrated industrial giant, from the source of its raw materials, coke production, to shipbuilding, Bethlehem Steel, was allowed to be dismantled and its remains sold to India-Great Britian's Mittal Steel. This is truly remarkable!! An industry of this sort SHOULD, MUST be nationalized, collectivized and made into a public utility. THIS is the definition of national security!! Otherwise, there is no national security, but, only national insecurity. For a snippet of background on Bethlehem Steel: www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlehem_Steel This epic struggle, for which both the Iraq and Afghanistan war is being fought, continues everywhere, and, here's something on the privatization front from Egypt, whose last sentence is really quite amusing. I can only speculate if this is a literal transcript of what was said or something manufactured by the writer: www.thedailynewsegypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=14154