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“Dating back to World War 1, the ILA was always proud to note that ‘ILA Also Means Love America’ when it came to its “No Strike Pledge” in handling U.S. military cargo at all its ports,” said ILA President Harold Daggett, who served in the U.S. Navy and saw combat duty during the Vietnam War. “We continue our pledge to never let our brave American troops down for their valour and service and we will proudly continue to work all military shipments beyond October 1st, even if we are engaged in a strike.”

The ILA’s Military Consultant, Gen. (Ret.) Tim McHale, weighed in on the ILA’s “No Strike Pledge” for U.S. Military cargo: “The U.S. Government representatives I have been engaging with are very happy and satisfied with the ILA who have always been there in tough situations, and always successfully accomplished the mission. Our U.S. Military knows that the ILA will conduct military load out operations even if there is a strike by ILA.”

critical support to their strike and all, but example of international solidarity this aint

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[–] anarcho_blinkenist@hexbear.net 67 points 2 months ago (1 children)

we will proudly continue to work... even if we are engaged in a strike.”

The leverage-understanders have made a union

This isn't even a US specific thing


these are the same social chauvinists trend that Lenin was railing against around the failure of the 2nd international in Europe, which is illustrated in their 'proud' WWI history.

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Everyone knows the best way to negotiate is to completely trash your leverage to engage in servile bootlickin'

Like telling liberals 'please move left but I'll always vote for you anyway'

[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 49 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 25 points 2 months ago

currently at pages ~100-110 and this was my very first thought

[–] OpenDown@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bro the haters really were white chauvinists I'm on the floor 😭😭

[–] frauddogg@hexbear.net 10 points 2 months ago

They always are

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 45 points 2 months ago
[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 42 points 2 months ago

Disco Elysium but Evrart and Joyce are the same character.

[–] VILenin@hexbear.net 40 points 2 months ago

Strikes in the global south: actually refuses to work and directed directly and indirectly against amerikkkan hegemony and imperialism

Strikes in Amerikkka: we will only work if it materially supports genocide

[–] Tomboymoder@hexbear.net 38 points 2 months ago (3 children)

fuck their strike, yankees can suffer without international solidarity.

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 32 points 2 months ago

Anyone who gleefully fuels the US war machine isn't a ""worker"" in my book. Let the colonists fight between themselves.

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

Nah, porky annoyance is always good, but thats between porky and them. (also why both people cited are retired military, christ) ila-gon up in there

[–] SadArtemis@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

Agreed. They are either with the global majority, with the true force of humanity, or they are against it. Thankfully humanity has built itself up to a point where the tides are truly and fully turning, now.

They can either get with the program, or resist and be eradicated. The chance will always be there, right up until they're at the wall, yet so many of them undoubtedly will reject it till the end. Fuck them, the beatings will continue until they can express even the slightest humanity, and if they can't may they die with their empire.

[–] iByteABit@hexbear.net 33 points 2 months ago
[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 29 points 2 months ago

Fucking weak. I won't shed a tear if the national guard starts teargassing them for refusing to transport Beanie Babies.

[–] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 28 points 2 months ago

Bernie was the compromise.

MFW "leftism" in Amerikkka is someone suggesting to NOT reimport all the exploitation we do in the global south back here, and STILL getting booed for being too far left.

[–] cmhickman358@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago
[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Third Worldists proven correct yet again hasan-smash

[–] milk_thief@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

fyi third worldist is an exonym that was later adopted, like dengist.

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago
[–] milk_thief@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago
[–] frauddogg@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The imperial core proving it lacks any recognizable revolutionary potential; exhibit 238285-cdx...

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Jesus Christ this is disappointing.

[–] aaaaaaadjsf@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago

In order to truly understand this contradiction, the most explosive contradiction capitalism has engendered, the centers/peripheries polarization must be placed at the heart of the analysis and not at its margin.

But after a whole series of concessions, the forces of the Left and of socialism in the West have finally given up on giving the imperialist dimension of capitalist expansion the central place that it must occupy both in critical analysis and in the development of progressive strategies. In so doing, they have been won over to bourgeois ideology in its most essential aspects: Eurocentrism and economism.

The very term imperialism has been placed under prohibition, having been judged to be unscientific. Considerable contortions are required to replace it with a more "objective" term like "international capital" or "transnational capital." As if the world were fashioned purely by economic laws, expressions of the technical demands of the reproduction of capital. As if the state and politics, diplomacy and armies had disappeared from the scene! Imperialism is precisely an amalgamation of the requirements and laws for the reproduction of capital; the social, national, and international alliances that underlie them; and the political strategies employed by these alliances...

The discouragement that has overtaken the forces of socialism in the West, who find in the situation of the "socialist" countries an alibi for their own weaknesses, has its source elsewhere, in the depths of the Western societies themselves. As long as it does not have a lucid understanding of the ravages of Eurocentrism, Western socialism will remain at a standstill...

Eurocentrism is a powerful factor in the opposite sense. Prejudice against the Third World, very much in favor today, contributes to the general shift to the right. Certain elements of the socialist movement in the West reject this shift, of course. But they do so most often in order to take refuge in another, no less Eurocentric, discourse, the discourse of traditional trade unionism, according to which only the mature (read European) working classes can be the bearers of the socialist future. This is an impotent discourse, in contradiction with the most obvious teachings of history.

  • Samir Amin - Eurocentrism, For a Truly Universal Culture
[–] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

I "get" the military one, but what is the deal with cruise ships? Those losers can forego their vacation

[–] Pentacat@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

Fuck their strike; it is meaningless.

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 13 points 2 months ago
[–] darkmode@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago
[–] FunkYankkkees@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

the absolute state of yankkkee unions

[–] nothx@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

The ILA is committed to making sure the treat goblins can at least go vacationing.

[–] bigbrowncommie69@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

Issue with all unions in the west. Infested with social chauvinists. We need to fight to re-radicalise labour unionism.