“Dating back to World War 1, the ILA was always proud to note that ‘ILA Also Means Love America’ when it came to its “No Strike Pledge” in handling U.S. military cargo at all its ports,” said ILA President Harold Daggett, who served in the U.S. Navy and saw combat duty during the Vietnam War. “We continue our pledge to never let our brave American troops down for their valour and service and we will proudly continue to work all military shipments beyond October 1st, even if we are engaged in a strike.”
The ILA’s Military Consultant, Gen. (Ret.) Tim McHale, weighed in on the ILA’s “No Strike Pledge” for U.S. Military cargo: “The U.S. Government representatives I have been engaging with are very happy and satisfied with the ILA who have always been there in tough situations, and always successfully accomplished the mission. Our U.S. Military knows that the ILA will conduct military load out operations even if there is a strike by ILA.”
critical support to their strike and all, but example of international solidarity this aint
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The ILA is committed to making sure the treat goblins can at least go vacationing.
the absolute state of yankkkee unions
I “get” the military one, but what is the deal with cruise ships? Those losers can forego their vacation
The imperial core proving it lacks any recognizable revolutionary potential; exhibit 238285-cdx…
you’re on hexbear instead of grad now?
Third Worldists proven correct yet again
fyi third worldist is an exonym that was later adopted, like dengist.
Fuck their strike; it is meaningless.
Strikes in the global south: actually refuses to work and directed directly and indirectly against amerikkkan hegemony and imperialism
Strikes in Amerikkka: we will only work if it materially supports genocide
In order to truly understand this contradiction, the most explosive contradiction capitalism has engendered, the centers/peripheries polarization must be placed at the heart of the analysis and not at its margin.
But after a whole series of concessions, the forces of the Left and of socialism in the West have finally given up on giving the imperialist dimension of capitalist expansion the central place that it must occupy both in critical analysis and in the development of progressive strategies. In so doing, they have been won over to bourgeois ideology in its most essential aspects: Eurocentrism and economism.
The very term imperialism has been placed under prohibition, having been judged to be unscientific. Considerable contortions are required to replace it with a more “objective” term like “international capital” or “transnational capital.” As if the world were fashioned purely by economic laws, expressions of the technical demands of the reproduction of capital. As if the state and politics, diplomacy and armies had disappeared from the scene! Imperialism is precisely an amalgamation of the requirements and laws for the reproduction of capital; the social, national, and international alliances that underlie them; and the political strategies employed by these alliances…
The discouragement that has overtaken the forces of socialism in the West, who find in the situation of the “socialist” countries an alibi for their own weaknesses, has its source elsewhere, in the depths of the Western societies themselves. As long as it does not have a lucid understanding of the ravages of Eurocentrism, Western socialism will remain at a standstill…
Eurocentrism is a powerful factor in the opposite sense. Prejudice against the Third World, very much in favor today, contributes to the general shift to the right. Certain elements of the socialist movement in the West reject this shift, of course. But they do so most often in order to take refuge in another, no less Eurocentric, discourse, the discourse of traditional trade unionism, according to which only the mature (read European) working classes can be the bearers of the socialist future. This is an impotent discourse, in contradiction with the most obvious teachings of history.
- Samir Amin - Eurocentrism, For a Truly Universal Culture
Jesus Christ this is disappointing.
Bernie was the compromise.
MFW “leftism” in Amerikkka is someone suggesting to NOT reimport all the exploitation we do in the global south back here, and STILL getting booed for being too far left.
we will proudly continue to work… even if we are engaged in a strike.”
The leverage-understanders have made a union
This isn’t even a US specific thing — these are the same social chauvinists trend that Lenin was railing against around the failure of the 2nd international in Europe, which is illustrated in their ‘proud’ WWI history.
Everyone knows the best way to negotiate is to completely trash your leverage to engage in servile bootlickin’
Like telling liberals ‘please move left but I’ll always vote for you anyway’
Disco Elysium but Evrart and Joyce are the same character.
