The following is excerpted from a news article called “Longview, Wash., Longshoremen show the way: Trains, Grains and Fightback” at Liberation News.
During the course of this depression, it has become even more clear that workers in the United States are under attack. The endless catalog of corporate mergers, layoffs, consolidations and assaults on organized labor expose the true nature of class relations. These events, combined with chronic high unemployment and a record number of people in poverty, are smashing the idea that so-called “middle class” workers are anything other than a relatively privileged sector whose privileges can be revoked in order to increase profit.
The struggles of the ILWU in Longview point to the comprehensive measures needed to bring us true freedom. We commend ILWU 21 for their uncompromising stand against EGT’s union-busting and demand that all criminal charges against ILWU 21 union members and supporters be dismissed immediately.