kool credo

by Aldon Morris and Dan Clawson
submitted to portside
1/2/06

What kind of labor writing gets suppressed in the U.S.
today? Apparently it doesn't take much.

We wrote an article on "Lessons of the Civil Rights
Movement for Building a Worker Rights Movement" whose
last paragraph said:

Finally, 
a fundamental question faces workers today: 
do
they have the courage 
to get up off their knees 
and
confront powerful employers 
and corporations? 

 A
movement requires moral authority 
and enormous
sacrifices by its participants 
if it is to succeed. 

 In
mass movements 
people must be willing to go to jail
 be beaten
 and even  lose their lives
 in a noble
 and
just collective effort 
designed to win
 their rights 
   and
restore their dignity

  Although we do not know 
whether
contemporary workers 
possess such courage
 we do know
that Jim Crow 
was overthrown 
because southern Blacks
                         did