MB Civic

Chomsky ..

When the workers [in Egypt] joined the Jan. 25 movement, the impact was decisive, and the military command sent Mubarak on his way. That was a great victory for the Egyptian democracy movement, though many barriers remain, internal and external. The external barriers are clear. The U.S. and its allies cannot easily tolerate functioning democracy in the Arab world .. As working people won basic rights in the 1930s, business leaders warned of “the hazard facing industrialists in the rising political power of the masses,” and called for urgent measures to beat back the threat .. They understood as well as Mubarak did that unions are a leading force in advancing rights and democracy. In the U.S., unions are the primary counterforce to corporate tyranny .. In different ways, the fate of democracy is at stake in Madison, Wis., no less than it is in Tahrir Square

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