Interesting...
Aug. 11th, 2004 09:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
inulroRead this article on alternet.
Substitute "democrat" for "Labour" and "republican" for "conservative" and there's a global phenomenon on our hands. Except that, according to this article, the Democrats started to distance themselves from their trade union constituency a lot earlier, in the 70s.
Which explains why I never associated the Democrats with organised labour or any real left-leanings. I'm not old enough.
I haven't had time to have a good look yet, but the whole site look quite interesting.
Substitute "democrat" for "Labour" and "republican" for "conservative" and there's a global phenomenon on our hands. Except that, according to this article, the Democrats started to distance themselves from their trade union constituency a lot earlier, in the 70s.
Which explains why I never associated the Democrats with organised labour or any real left-leanings. I'm not old enough.
I haven't had time to have a good look yet, but the whole site look quite interesting.
