Forum Post: WSWS: Growing anger over state repression of anti-Wall Street protests
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 28, 2011, 11:29 a.m. EST by SandyEnglish
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Growing anger over state repression of anti-Wall Street protests
Among those who are genuinely looking for a way to fight, the call for a general strike in Oakland undoubtedly represents an attempt to turn to the power of the working class. However, among the pseudo-left organizations, such a demand is intended only to foster illusions in the unions.
To the extent that this demand is directed to the existing trade unions, which are completely subordinated to the Democratic Party and represent the interests of management and their own privileged officials, not those of the workers trapped within them, it will at best become another futile form of protest.
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