Saturday, 1 May 2010

Chicago Swells The Surging Throng

I am whistling The Red Flag this May Day, not least because the events described took place in Chicago, where this blog has several readers.
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2 comments:

Mr. Piccolo said...

Chicago does have a long history of labor activism. But I was somewhat dismayed this morning to find out that many May Day organizers are planning on making opposition to the Arizona immigration law a major target of their wrath. While I do have some reservations about the Arizona law and about the spirit behind the law and much right-wing opposition to immigration, I think it is very hard to be pro-immigration and pro-worker, or at the very least pro-unrestricted immigration and pro-worker.

Open borders, whether at the high end or the low end of the labor market, is about increasing the power of global capital over labor and depressing wages across the planet. A lot of trendy Lefties might not like to hear this but it is true.

1 May 2010 18:54
David Lindsay said...

Clearly, the movement needs to arrange its own May Days as urgently as it needs to arrange its own Tea Parties.

1 May 2010 19:32

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