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Read online at https://workersliberty.org/node/9623 Missing the point on Palestine Submitted by AWL on 22 November, 2007 - 10:15 Author: David Broder I was disappointed by Rhodri Evans’ response to Daniel Randall’s article about the Palestinian trade union movement. While Daniel’s piece displayed his support for the “third camp” of independent working-class forces in Palestine, the tone of Rhodri’s letter (“Lacking a dimension on Israel-Palestine”) was to emphasise our criticisms of initiatives to organise Palestinian workers rather than focussing on their vit...

Unions, Democracy, and the Third Camp Comparing Lessons from New Politics and Herman Benson The decline of labor has been accompanied by an opportunity we have not seen in decades. A new generation of socialists, many of them members of Democratic Socialists of American, are enthusiastically discussing the role of the working class and unions in the fight for socialism. Making the best use of this development requires critically analyzing the past several decades of struggle among labor leftists about how a commitment to socialism “from below” might inform our union activity. In this arti...