The current situation with the strikes is not good enough at all, not going far
enough and sadly it appears to be a lost cause - but they do highlight the factthat it's us versus them. And striking workers themselves are rightlydissatisfied with how things are at the moment - we need autonomous collectiveaction, revolt from below, militant grass roots sabotage and subversion, popularassemblies and worker's councils, or coordinating committees, workers' resistancegroups and things like that. Not unions - not reformist ones anyway. ---- Andreally, trying to make workers content with capitalism by trying to get thembetter pay and conditions is not truly sufficient or effective. We need properresistance to worsening capitalist barbarism and real, militant revolutionaryupheaval from below. And the current strikes very much seem to be going nowhereand stand to put people off of unions and strikes altogether. The TUC unions arealso centralised, bourgeois organisations, and cannot be relied on. Theindependent unions do good work, but are also basically reformist in practice andtherefore limited - though they are much smaller than the reformist unions.The strike wave should really have been a starting point, but this doesn't seemto have happened, at least not yet, and it seems very unlikely that this willchange. Mick Lynch has been great at showing up pundits and commentators on tellyfor being the idiots and stooges of the establishment they are, but it was peoplesuch as him who called off the rail strikes when the queen died. The reformistsand union bureaucrats have deliberately failed to make the most of the strikes,which does the ruling class a huge favour. People like Lynch are too close to theLabour Party and are getting behind Starmer for the next general election. Theyare also, in their own way, part of the establishment - union leaders whose jobis to divert and pacify discontent and negotiate social peace with the bosses.It's up to workers what they do, but if the reformist unions are not doing whatis necessary, lacking militancy and escalation, then we advocate the idea thatworkers can always organise and fight outside of such organisations.As things are, we have the unions and they are clearly bourgeois and franklyuseless. The strikes are going nowhere and look completely hopeless. We've evengot Unite helping the smooth operation of an atomic weapons manufacturer (AWE/NGBailey) by representing the electricians in such an industry and winning them apay deal. We desperately need some real militant, autonomous, grass rootscollective direct action and people need to completely reject this system andgenuinely resist it.https://anarcomuk.uk/2023/05/15/militancy-and-escalation-needed-not-compromise/_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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