wannabeeahack wrote:
Todays generation have forgotten the 70's with unions trying to rule and overule everything any goverment (even Labour) wanted or tried to do, lets put the rose tinted glasses on and read of Scargill, Red Robbo, etc, etc, folk heroes now, but just block-vote bullies back then
when Labour won elections the union leaders were at number 10 before any cabinet was invited in, oh yes, the good old days indeed!
workers want paying wages, and better wages, then decry management and capitialism for producing the profits that pay them....
Dearie me. You're not the brightest candle in the box, are you?
Capitalism doesn't produce profits. Profits are produced by the sweat of the workers' labour. The commodities produced by that labour. Nothing else.
Now tell me where these guys were wrong?
Scargill told us that Thatcher was intent on destroying the mining industry. Well, lo and behold, what happened? Thatcher destroyed the mining industry. She did it to break the collective strength of the workers.
So, Scargill was right.
Now we're left with an impending energy shortage and vandalised coal reserves which could have met that shortage.
Now Cameron, Thatcher's evil spawn, is gonna do the same thing. Emasculate the workers, make them pay for Capitalism's failures.
Last night I heard the most absurd thing on Any questions. Talking about the potential BAA strikes, John Sargent said that although the workers are being oppressed again, unlike the 70s they would not be able to resort to the same tactics. The Law has been changed and wouldn't allow it.
What Sargent fails to appreciate is that in the face of such an attack on its working conditions by the Capitalist masters the Law will mean nothing. There is going to come a time when workers will distance themselves from their union leaders, removing any legal threat to the Unions' organisation and resources, and take direct action.
Anyone wanna bet against that the cops are already topping up their riot gear stocks?
a taxi driver (even me) is not a "worker/brother" as recognised by the communist/socialist types are they, even a 1 man band is a capitalist surely? i dont work for the common good/good of the people/state, im 100% self-interest, id be shot in the Russia of old
go on, lets hear it...........
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