Why does France, Italy, Germany, and many more countries have such well organized labour?
It wasn't long ago when 2 million workers in italy did a general strike for Gaza, and those protests are still happening as i write this thread.
Is there any way to replicate this and produce the same form of organization in the US?
also what does leftypol think of Will Lehman?
https://apnews.com/article/italy-gaza-protests-meloni-2-million-0fcc2fc85f53209100beb3dbff1256a9https://www.willforuawpresident.org/statements/uc-grad-students-strike-vote>>2696485> France, Italy, Germany, and many more countries have such well organized labourLmao. As compared to your country shithole maybe, but let us not delude ourselves it's dangerous.
>>2696485You dont replicate or produce this.
The depth of pro business unionism in the USA derives from specific historical conjunctures that combined to produce uniquely pacified labor organization. The post-WWII settlement established labor peace as national priority; capital accepted limited union recognition in exchange for guaranteed production, the state institutionalized collective bargaining as conflict management, and labor leadership secured material benefits for racially privileged and or professional sections of the working class sufficient to produce stake in stability over open class struggle. This was the labor aristocracy's material foundation…not moral corruption but structural position created through specific class compromises.
The Cold Wars intensified this dynamic. Anti-communism functioned as organizational purge and ideological unification. The radical elements removed, remaining leadership bound to American imperial project, business leaders, the DNC, and even reactionary groups like the mafia. The white American workers' relative privilege is openly secured through global suppression of black and brown workers' movements that might disrupt imperial extraction.
Geographic and demographic factors reinforced institutional conservatism within trade unions. The USA's continental scale dispersed working-class concentration that enabled European style solidarity. Racial division, historically constructed through slavery and maintained through Jim Crow and its afterlives often fragmented class consciousness along lines that business unionism managed rather than challenged. The resulting formation was segmented labor markets, jurisdictional competition, craft exclusivity, and overall produced unionism as racially privileged interest group rather than class struggle movement.
Legal architecture completed the enclosure of this reformation. The Wagner Act's promise of recognition became Taft-Hartley's leash, the prohibition of solidarity action, compulsory anti-communist affidavits, state surveillance of internal governance, all parts of things that dissolved pro labor momentum. American unions learned to operate within constraint in this era, and as planned this became second nature.
even if we assume you're correct on this, it doesn't really matter anyhow, organized labor in any of these countries have been completely defanged, they do not pose the slightest threat to capital, they'll do their little performance on the streets and get back to work after, while not pointless, the point is complete dull.