Belly, Workers go through a series of experiences drawing some crucial lessons. Questioning this precarious existence that resembles a violent madhouse. Our epoch too, is characterised by everlasting uncertainty. I looked around for an alternative perspective, as much to defend but more to take forward, the struggles of workers. I was a delegate the trade union officials got sacked. Why? for opposing their betrayals. The unions have become transformed from pressuring the bosses to pressuring workers for the return of conditions; another way the trade unions have clawed back conditions has been to take workers out on strike to lose - nice filth that method. Workers should never forget too, in the 1930's the ALP and ACTU dumped the economic crisis on the backs of workers. Something the ALP/ACTU would prefer workers to forget.
Far more than anything else, the trade unions from their inception were founded on a national reformist perspective that for todays needs has become obsolete and reactionary. The hideous White Australia policy originated in the trade unions. Protest politics or pressure politics - striking to apply pressure - doesn't work today.
Today life is dominated by global concerns, the IMF, World Banks, global capital, 'big business.' Who constantly, gouge and bruise the world for ever cheaper sources of labor and raw materials such as oil. And under this system that is a never ending battle, the unions cannot conquer. It is a race to the bottom with workers in one country or region working for ever cheaper labor, it becomes each against all that ultimately leads to war. Tensions are rising between the big powers and bigger wars are in the making expressed as Bush's "one war following another."
Now the real strength and fruit of the workers lies in the alternative to global corporations who are DOMINATED by profits. Profits control them prescribing their actions they take. To go forward first you need an alternative perspective, an international socialist program fighting for international solidarity and goods produced for peoples needs not profits. Genuine human relations replacing economic relations would mean an end to all wars.