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Labor Now Needs to Be an Anti-Fascist Movement
https://inthesetimes.com/article/trump-maga-labor-fascism
MAGA forces have begun what they believe to be their final offensive against everything on the Left. One way to fight back is for organized labor to become a conscious anti-fascist movement
Bill Fletcher, Jr. November 8, 2024
A protester outside of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July 2024. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images
The election has proven to be a disaster not only for the Democratic Party, but for progressives more generally. Republicans have the Presidency, the Senate, the Supreme Court and, likely, the House of Representatives.
The fundamental issues at play are inflation, revanchism, racism and misogyny, and MAGA forces have begun what they believe to be their final offensive against everything on the Left.
Vice President Kamala Harris ran an amazing campaign considering it only started in August. She galvanized much of a base that had, by that time, become especially lethargic. She reached out to build a broad front to oppose former President Donald Trump. But she also made two crucial mistakes.
The first was not permitting a Palestinian speaker at the Democratic National Convention and, further, not making greater efforts to distance herself from President Joe Biden’s nearly unequivocal support of Israel.
FULL story at link above.