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agreed
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This Balfour Beatty thing has been going on for a while but it's been criminally underreported. Maybe now coverage will pick up (lol no it won't the strikers will be painted as workshy whingers)
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has there ever been a time where scabs flew over the picket line in a helicopter, or perhaps snuck underneath it in a secret work tunnel of some kind
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why do you keep saying it's a human right? work is inhuman; there are no such things as rights. as soon as strikes are outlawed they will no longer be human rights
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i don't think scabbing is a "culture" either but it for sure is a betrayal and very lousy thing to do
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discipline posted:
the problem with scab culture is the same problem we have with regular culture. people are islands. they are lonely unless they are hooked up to capital's soothing mechanisms (drugs, video games, webforums) and are not used to speaking with others or are maybe afraid of being part of a movement.



yeah i probably wouldve gotten involved with a socialist organization a long time ago if lf had never existed, so i'd like to thank all of u for being enablers

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Mike Nelson here.
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what socialest orgazination are you a part of aerdil
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http://www.hark.com/clips/qgqtnxjjdb-youre-not-a-scab
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Kurdt
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rebrand illegal immigrants as the labor scabocracy
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they will send police to intimidate you and they will arrest you and they will fire you. they will threaten to withhold food from your babies mouths. they will beat you and turn the hose on you and attack you with dogs.


Yikes! better scab out then

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i told my brother not to scab and he looked at me like i was crazy and said "but im not a union member, ill just get disciplined"

so i asked him why he wasnt a union member and he looked at me like i was crazy and said "whats the point of joining the union"

i explained to him what solidarity means and his eyes glazed over, and next morning he tried to beat the picket by 'getting in early' (8am lol) and got yelled at, hes a fuckshit moron but hes my brother and i love him
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vampirarchist posted:
has there ever been a time where scabs flew over the picket line in a helicopter, or perhaps snuck underneath it in a secret work tunnel of some kind

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tpaine posted:
If you have the most delicious milkshake in the world and when you're finished with it, you see on the bottom of the glass "NOW YOU HAVE HERPES", the milkshake ceases to have been enjoyable. Because you just got herpes from that milkshake.



finally a metaphor for interpellation i can relate to

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i love to pick at scabs. icepick scabs. trotsky.

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MarxUltor posted:

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seems like talking to potential scabs is in some ways similar to talking to cops. obviously in a confrontation you shouldn't talk to cops at all, but i'm talking about the bored dudes who've spent an hour and a half standing with a sole partner behind a barricade or whatever (assuming you enjoy a level of privilege where you feel you can risk talking to a cop). where possible you should play into the public perception of 'bad apples' and explicitly differentiate them *in conversation* from the cops you've seen beat and harrass your friends. much as with proto-scabs, the goal is to sap their nerve and instil that little seed of guilt that will one day bloom into a beautiful subversive flower~

not saying "THE COPS ARE OUR FRIENDS, 99% ARGLEBARGLEGLAH"; obviously scabs are infinitely more likely to join our ranks, and you should bring the fucking noise as soon as a cop suits up and falls in line. but there's a strategic parallel is what i'm saying i guess