Posted on 12/23/2004 7:26:50 AM PST by Kitten Festival
On the surface, it's a little puzzling for a communist supremo to go after a labor union leader. After all, aren't communists the self-proclaimed vanguard of the proletariat? And more to the point, aren't unions full of communist leaders anyway? The answer to both is yes. But only in a liberal democracy.
It's quite different under a working communist dictatorship. In the Russia of Lenin, or the Poland of Jaruzelski, the destruction of labor unions in the name of "the people" was the earmark of consolidating communist power. Few groups suffer more than independent labor unions when communists roll in. This fact was very well understood by the late Lane Kirkland, a great union man who quietly aided Poland's Solidarnosc freedom fighters as leader of the AFL-CIO during the Reagan years.
Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela is turning his gunsights on Venezuela's independent labor union leaders. His pretext is in the long-snuffed embers of a state oil company strike two years ago
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