Money to Fight Aids. U.s.out Americtral Socialist Action
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an organized manner, for the first time.
Despite the distorted form this coalition of the Democrats and labor movement took, despite all the illusions and disappointments that it brought-and it certainly brought plenty-this entry of the unions into politics in a deliberate, organized manner, for the first time, was a tremendous step in a direction that cannot be reversed. Labor is in politics to stay. That's the conclusion we have to draw from the present development of the Democratic-labor coalition....
Labor is in politics to stay. But labor is not going to stay in the Democratic Party. And for good reasons. The imperative demands which labor must raise under conditions of the impending social crisis, will not and cannot be satisified in the Democratic Party as it is coalition in government may not be tried again. There will be ups and downs. This current attempt of the American bourgeoisie to rule directly in their own name through the biggest millionaires in the country-this reckless experiment will go down in ruins under the first impact of the crisis. They may very well turn again to a new version of the Roosevelt-Truman-labor coalition. But it won't work. And the reason it won't work is that it can't give the workers what they need....
Consequently a coalition for class collaboration in government will not work the next time. Not under conditions of social crisis, when on the one hand the workers' demands will be far more extensive and imperious, and when on the other hand they will be threatened with the destruction of their Procon Socialist Action/May May Gong