Tag: solidarity

If You Want Working Class Solidarity

It is up to those of us with privilege to stop drinking from the poisoned chalice that gives us some small advantage over the rest of our class, at the expense of dividing us from our comrades, at the expense of the real power which we can only build when we come together.  We cannot come together as a class while working class women are told by their comrades to accept violence and inferior status for the sake of revolution, to show solidarity with those who ill treat us for the sake of revolution.  We cannot come together as a class standing on the backs of our black and brown comrades.  We cannot come together as a class if we treat our gay, lesbian, bisexual, and so on comrades as deviants or tokens.  We cannot come together as a class if our transgender comrades are denied the right to take a fucking piss safely.  We cannot come together as a class if our spaces are inaccessible to our disabled comrades.  

You want working class solidarity?  You want the revolution?  Show that solidarity to your women comrades, your comrades of color, your LGBTQ comrades, your disabled comrades, show us that you will fight for us and not just yourself and we will fight at your side.  Show it through your actions and not through empty words.  

We can only have real solidarity when we stand beside our comrades and not above them.

Comrades not Allies or Benefactors.

I don’t trust anyone whose interest in my liberation isn’t to some extent self interest. Charity is always from above. I trust men who want the liberation of women because patriarchy fucks everyone over, but women more, and they know they can’t achieve their own liberation in any meaningful sense without us. I trust those who do not seek to alleviate their sense of guilt for their superior social position but instead seek to demolish the structures that create it because they harm them too. I am opposed to racism within the white working class not simply because it is morally repugnant, but also because I know that the liberation of the working class cannot come when we fall prey to their divide and rule tactics, and that the group the ruling class have placed on top has to be the one to extend the olive branch, the ones who have to say “No, I will stand beside you, not above you” before we can have true solidarity. Demanding solidarity with your boot on someone’s throat is no way to be their comrade.

It is those who have power within the working class who keep it divided, not some recalcitrance on the part of the most oppressed

You know unfaithful men pitting the women they sleep with against each other is shitty

Solidarity between wives and mistresses as in “let’s take this fucker for all we can get” solidarity. Making you compete gives douchefuck the advantage, don’t let him take it, team up and take everything. Gang up on him
Oh and never marry a really rich dude (we’re talking 1% here) for love, only money. Actually I’m getting an idea for a cute heist story about a pair of lesbian SBs doing this to some particularly douchey dude I’d call it “the long con”