During the Great Depression we had a Worker's Unity League. We had Tim Buck. We had voices who spoke and fought for me and you. We saw a 'ginger group' evolve - to speak for others. To the south, we had John Lewis and his brothers.
We witnessed Estevan, Stratford and 'Onto Ottawa'. We saw a solidarity in purpose. And sacrifice. We saw brave one's speak against the madness in their midst ... against capitalism and its vice.
Today? Amid our growing collective discontent and marginalization there is a perverse disconnect - a voice missing.
Labour is mute.
Its leaders, long ago co-opted and bought off by the capitalist machine, now beg borrow and steal to keep their own position's safe and their noses clean. All the while making faux Versailles-lian peace with a morally bankrupt system that is concurrently raping the worker of their livelihood and dignity.
Stimulus this - Stimulus that. Today's labour leaders care not they are abetting the preservation of greed and corporate dynasties. All they care care about is the insular 'me'...
Unlike the 1930s, a voice missing today....
Labour's done and gone away.
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