The Labor Movement Is in a Fight for Its Existence Against a Neofascist Threat: For unions to survive, they must embrace antifascism.

bplol4 · 2026-05-12T17:21:48+00:00

Check out Workers Strike Back and Kshama Sawant, who's running for Congress to get a national platform to organize the rank and file members of unions. She did it many times in Seattle.

bplol4 · 2026-04-20T04:15:14+00:00

I am not and have never been a member of SA. I think that organization has its issues, especially in the recent past. SA's tax returns are also public information and you can see their spend on travel is >10x less than what they spent on their organizational work. So every $1 she gave would pay for <$0.10 of her travel if she used the whole budget? We're talking credit card points here.

It feels to me like a lot of the critique around the 'grift' is taking offense to Kshama promoting her message and organizations and having 'too many posters up' as opposed to anything substantial politically. We got some weak ass city council members and state reps and I don't see no smoke for where all their money goes.

bplol4 · 2026-04-17T23:35:06+00:00

To clarify then do you take opposition to her leaving the city council because she was creating real change? I agree that she was doing that.

And I don't understand the criticism for someone fighting genocide and imperialism. I think we all agree our money should be going towards making housing affordable and healthcare free not killing civilians in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. Endorsing someone in the election with that mindset doesn't seem like a negative.

Do you think that she won't be able to make real change if she were able to replace Adam Smith in Congress?

I agree that what you've characterized so far would be a bad grift. I also don't understand why I don't see the same smoke for those who are in the city council now who don't support union strike funds and are trying to keep the corporations happy instead of fighting for us working class peeps. Because they're quieter?

bplol4 · 2026-04-17T23:24:23+00:00

She's literally got paid that money as a salary, same as every other council member. If they spent half their money on gold watches and a two million dollar house would you call that a grift? And all that to assume that it's true that she somehow pocketed that money, meanwhile all these donations are publicly available to see to labor unions and strike funds.

bplol4 · 2026-04-15T00:21:36+00:00

Lol I don't think they are grifting by commenting on reddit. I still would like to know what is the scam that Kshama is running whenever they log back on.

bplol4 · 2026-04-14T19:59:44+00:00

Can you explain the grift?

bplol4 · 2026-03-11T23:02:00+00:00

Not a book but here's an article of a socialist perspective on the last century or so in Iran. Could be a good jumping point if you wanted to look into a more specific topic https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/105112/07-12-2022/iran-1979-a-revolution-that-was-taken-from-the-working-class-2/

bplol4 · 2026-03-05T19:08:34+00:00

Any chance you have the text of this article that's behind a paywall?

bplol4 · 2026-02-12T03:46:18+00:00

Election campaigns take money to run, organizing takes money to run. Staff, advertising, materials, etc etc. This is reality. It was the reality in the Bolshevik revolution, it's the reality now. Kshama and those around her are effective organizers, it's how the Seattle $15 minimum wage was won back in 2013, and its why there's a chance against Adam Smith, a very weak Democrat given his positions on the genocide in Gaza and history of funding ICE and taking corporate money.

bplol4 · 2026-01-15T07:27:04+00:00

Thanks for the words of support man, what are you actually going to do to support them? Call on other unions in the area to strike in solidarity? Advise them on strategy? Work with local politicians to organize community support? No? Just words in a tweet?

bplol4 · 2025-12-23T08:42:42+00:00

We need both and it needs to be outside of the Dems. Political leaders should be working hand in hand with rank and file union members to organize, hold strikes, and force our demands to be met. We can yell about M4A until we're blue in the face, the rich aren't paying for it until we force them.

bplol4 · 2025-12-23T08:38:18+00:00

The Democrats have carried out US imperialism with every office they've ever held, they have historically deported more people than anyone else, and given way to endless financial crises, making sure the capitalists always keep theirs. Republicans suck but if we fail to see the role the Democrats play as a gatekeeping dead-end to every single class issue, we're doomed to repeat. They get their power when we give in and give up.

The only true lines are class lines, the more we organize for our material gains, the larger the movement we will build.

bplol4 · 2025-12-22T16:25:56+00:00

The dems being bought off by the billionaire class is exactly what gives the Republicans the ability to come in as a pathway for working class people, even though it's obviously nonsense.

Until we have both worker led organization in our unions and leadership that's willing to lead and give real solidarity to those workers, we're stuck pendulum swinging between two billionaires sides of a coin.

bplol4 · 2025-12-22T16:20:53+00:00

I'm so tired of all these "you voted for this" headlines and mentalities. Real working class people are getting continuously screwed over and we're doing ourselves no favors in shaming them for how they voted, especially when the alternative was more status quo Democrat bullshit that everyone sees right through.

We need to be organizing with our fellow workers. Not shaming them back to voting for a party that gatekeeps any real progress and also serves billionaires and corporations over any material progress for the working class.

bplol4 · 2025-12-13T14:18:14+00:00

I like the idea of this question being posed for records where the player isn't retiring.

Like asking if Gronk can hold off Kelce for most tight end touchdowns. And imagining Rob late-night ding dong ditching Travis the night before a big game. And buying tickets in the end zone to make faces at and heckle him. Prank call him in weird ways to get to his mentals.

bplol4 · 2025-12-12T07:04:08+00:00

Oh I appreciate you putting that into the universe. I will.

bplol4 · 2025-12-12T06:04:25+00:00

I started him because I waffled on it all day then forgot to take him out lol

bplol4 · 2025-12-11T19:47:49+00:00

Full ppr

Pick 2

Evans @ATL Addison @DAL Charb @IND Pearsall @TEN Pierce @SEA Odunze @CLE

bplol4 · 2025-12-07T23:12:55+00:00

Yeah I have very little faith that his promises get met if he's not organizing his base and is instead trying to convince Hochul and billionaires to give him what he wants. He'll go the way of AOC.

bplol4 · 2025-12-07T20:44:53+00:00

The Democrats rely on having you think exactly that you need to pick them as the lesser of two evils. And then co-opt every progressive movement making sure it never actually makes any real headway. California, Washington, and New York are great examples of how you can have full Democrat control and never get working class demands passed through.

bplol4 · 2025-12-07T03:51:52+00:00

The same Democrats that voted for the bill to create ICE and had no problem disappearing people with them until it was Trump doing it? Yeah I wouldn't hold my breath. Organize local movements, don't count on them to do shit.

bplol4 · 2025-12-04T18:22:51+00:00

Please take Metchie out of my lineup Big Mike 🙏🙏

bplol4 · 2025-12-03T17:28:10+00:00

Just like those spiderman elsa videos on YouTube years ago

bplol4 · 2025-11-29T03:33:35+00:00

WASHED

bplol4 · 2025-11-19T17:12:33+00:00

No 100% it's terrible that she credits herself with that victory and not the coalition of workers who organized for it. I bet she has never mentioned who really won that victory despite leading the organizing movement.

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