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*really* interesting read!
"Can anti-racist activism feed into labor organizing and multiracial working-class organization?"

"Critics are not wrong to identify the self-serving nature of much of what passes as anti-racism today. Business leaders, non-profit execs, and neoliberal Democrats have — under pressure from protests and public opinion — painted themselves in social justice colors, while studiously avoiding any meaningful distribution of resources or power downwards. "
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"In contrast, recent labor struggles have tied fights against police brutality and systemic racism to pushes for multiracial working-class unity and economic redistribution."
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"Leftists, in short, are justified in criticizing neoliberal anti-racism. But only focusing on this is one sided and strategically unhelpful."
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"'There’d been so many huge protests against police murdering Black people, and I felt like unionizing my store, even if it wasn’t directly related to police brutality, was a way to make a real difference in people’s lives at a place where we could exert some degree of control.” 

-> this author should be featured in every union newsletter. The artificial conflict between 'class struggle' and 'side contradictions' (antiracism, feminism ...) is drawing way too much energy from our common causes.

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