Richard Mellor
Afscme Local 444, retired
GED/HEO
Yet more massive strikes in the UK, things are really humming there. This is from a You Tuber named Politics Joe, who does some good stuff but I would respectfully suggest that union officials like this one are not bosses in the same way that capitalists are and best not use that term. Even the worst of them are not the same.
Looking from afar it does appear the possibility of a General Strike in the UK is a real option. The heads of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) will do whatever they can to avoid calling a General Strike, as they are as afraid of the power of their members and the working class as a whole, as their colleagues atop the AFL-CIO here in the US are. But this is what they should do, set a date for a one day strike and plan for a series of them if need be and increase pressure on them.
I left England a long time ago and most of these essential services were public not private. Along with the National Health System (NHS), which is constantly under attack, these industries need to be taken under public ownership and management by workers as producers and as users of the product.
There is surprisingly little coverage of these developments in the US mass media, an ally of the US in more ways than one. The US capitalist class does not want us getting any ideas; our own history is suppressed as Hollywood likes to stress that the Mafia built the trade unions and they are controlled by organized crime. Practically none in my local news as the reports of murders, bad weather and cats stuck up trees (Ukraine excepted) must be told as these are the most prominent on people's minds apparently. But we know workers are watching this stuff.
Our time will come.
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