Although this is about the UK, there are many useful ideas here for American liberals — if they have the balls to change their not-so-useful reactive strategies. Worth a read!
In a post-Maggie world
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fwiw, Labor still seems to be the cog that can be taken from the old machine and remachine its cogs to interface with new hubs and leverage for new social conduits for matriculating into a vital economy.
Whereas back in the day, it was a major coup for the Unions to bargain for healthcare (ins.) and 40-hr work week, it now seems it would be apt use of their leverage capability to position themselves with collectives of health care providers that operate independently of any affiliation with employers. Detaching health care from employment is and always has been Step 1 (sorry, the truth remains that health care mandate disguised as a tax is still fraud in the inducement – of commerce. Back to the drawing board. It can, and must be, done correctly.) Step 2 could include positioning themselves to facilitate co-ops providing everything from day care to food, water, and access to alternative energy. To escape the current paradigm, we have to build one that out-modes, moreover, out-competes, the former.
Retool for the future. If anything, labor as a cog must re-envision itself and merge causes with OWS, permaculturalists, immigration and education reformers and infrastructure repair initiatives a la CCC.
So Maggie and Obama are continuing the motherfucking work. Kewl. I do love ashes.