Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Lessons of the Cold War: [Part 1] The Corporate War on Labor, at Home and Abroad

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Lessons of the Cold War: [Part 1] The Corporate War on Labor, at Home and Abroad

Click here to access article by Gerard Colby from Toward Freedom.

Check out the author's background:

Gerard Colby is the author of Du Pont: Behind The Nylon Curtain (Prentice Hall, 1974), Du Pont Dynasty (Lyle Stuart, 1984), and with Charlotte Dennett of THY WILL BE DONE, The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil (HarperCollins, 2005). He was the lead contributor to Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press (ed. Kristina Borjesson), winner of the National Press Club’s first Arthur Kruse Award for Press Criticism. He has taught international economics, political science and the history of Latin American political economy at various colleges, has lectured throughout the U.S. and Brazil, and has done investigative journalism for national and local news services for over 30 years. From 2004 to 2009 he served as President of the National Writers Union, Local 1981 of the Technical, Office and Professional Division of the United Auto Workers.

Colby provides a much needed working class history of the US since WWII in this first of two(?) series. Such histories are vitally needed to correct all the falsifications and omissions presented to the 99 Percent through the One Percent's ownership and control of all mainstream ideological organs--schools and media. Only with a proper understanding of history and current events can the 99 Percent effectively mount a campaign for real change.

Part II is here.