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Great site rustbelt, thanks for brechts poem thompsons song ,buzzcocks video, and the very informative and historical articles you post.I guess I am a bit like yourself coming from Coventry in England, which attracted lots of migrants including my parents to work in the car factories and engineering companies.In fact in the 60’s they called us boom town, struck me as rather strange as we lived in council estates, and never had much money.Now after 30 years of neo-liberal economics, and a further attack on the working class by neo-liberal scum under the cover of austerity, we are set to strike on the 30th Nov. I am hoping this union sponsored strike, but encompassing wider social groups such as the disabled,pensioners,care workers,unemployed,firefighters, we will begin to see the raising of the consciousness of working people and so can begin to build a real movement of resistance. Ther are many working people in Britain who are greatly encouraged by the actions of the American working class, and perhaps a bit surprised at their militancy. I think there should be a lot more contacts and solidarity between British and American trade unionists, and socialists, something which I believe has been lacking in the past.
The Rustbelt Radical is a personal blog. It is revolutionary, socialist and internationalist. It comes straight from the ravaged middle of the post-industrial American Midwest and yearns for the refounding of the Marxist project. The landscapes of radical history are my main interest, but other topics might include politics, economy, work, culture, war, theory, travel, music and frequent tubthumping for the free association of producers. Let me know of needed or broken links.
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"The realm of freedom...can only consist in socialized man, the associated producers rationally regulating their interchange with Nature, bringing it under their common control, instead of being ruled by it as by the blind force of Nature, and achieving this with the least expenditure of energy and under conditions most favorable to, and worthy of, their human nature..."
Karl Marx, Capital, Volume III, p. 820.
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Great site rustbelt, thanks for brechts poem thompsons song ,buzzcocks video, and the very informative and historical articles you post.I guess I am a bit like yourself coming from Coventry in England, which attracted lots of migrants including my parents to work in the car factories and engineering companies.In fact in the 60’s they called us boom town, struck me as rather strange as we lived in council estates, and never had much money.Now after 30 years of neo-liberal economics, and a further attack on the working class by neo-liberal scum under the cover of austerity, we are set to strike on the 30th Nov. I am hoping this union sponsored strike, but encompassing wider social groups such as the disabled,pensioners,care workers,unemployed,firefighters, we will begin to see the raising of the consciousness of working people and so can begin to build a real movement of resistance. Ther are many working people in Britain who are greatly encouraged by the actions of the American working class, and perhaps a bit surprised at their militancy. I think there should be a lot more contacts and solidarity between British and American trade unionists, and socialists, something which I believe has been lacking in the past.
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