Jon Queally is managing editor of Common Dreams.
If there is a chicken-or-the-egg question as it regards working class politics in the year 2024 and beyond, some of the boldest labor leaders in the United States have a very unified response: organized workers come first and then—and only then—can the progressive vision of a healthier democracy and more equal nation that meets the material needs of all its people finally come to pass.
'So the first question is, why aren't we winning? And the answer is we don't have a working class base.'Without workers in the fight in a deep and organized way, Leopold argued, progressives can't win—'or can't win substantially'—and that means new structures are needed to galvanize workers.
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