I ask this because I’ve recently gotten into creating a union for my work place and noticed that North America is really the only place where a Labor or workers party never took off.
It would be probably be doable to unite the unions into a political party similar to the UK Labour party after the world wars. The major point is, is that the party would have to be purely an economic party with each individual member deciding for themselves how to vote on social issues.
Not a fucking chance in hell.
I’m an anarchist. Flat out, voting is a whole deal for us in general but if I’m gonna vote then you better be damn sure that that person better care about some degree of intersectionality.
So what if we have a workers alliance? How is the representation of black women and the treatment of indigenous queer people and and and?…
I don’t want to be party to any group that excludes based on such things or even worse, is silent while others do horrible things to them. Indifference is so much colder. Watching on as other suffer under the bootheels of oppression simply because they were “only concerned with class”. Ugh.