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Trade Union Brothers and Sisters, banish the thought of organizing your way to revolution. The old machinery of state power must be smashed and a new system based on love, truth, and the powers of creation must be built. To accomplish this we need a dedicated core of revolutionaries, comrades, (a Peoples' Party) able to communicate and struggle with the system, understand the laws of transformation, and bring life to the movement. We must break our ties to the money system and establish beachhead communities of comrades here in the belly of the beast.
Unless trade union brothers and sisters rise up and take control of their unions and make the first steps beyond collective bargaining towards a workers state, we can expect nothing but continuing stagnation and business as usual. These first steps must be toward collectivization of housing, production, education, governance, etc.
We must transform not only the machinery of society but also its consciousness; we need Cultural Revolution. Every union shop, and workplace needs workers' councils to raise consciousness and begin the shift of power.
Union brothers and sisters, which side are you on? Will you permit one more day under wage slavery to pass without rising up in protest and struggle? Come, let us together leave the land of wage slavery and travel the narrow pathway forward.
In Struggle,
Joe Chafe
31 March 2001