Last week, 58 percent of Australian Education Union (AEU) members in Victoria made history. Going against our union leaders’ advice, tens of thousands of school staff voted down an in-principle agreement the union had reached with the state Labor government.
The industrial workers of India, so often written off by academics and paternalistic union bureaucrats alike, are once more proving themselves to be a fighting force.
As we take stock of our forces on May Day, working-class power, international solidarity and socialist politics are still forces that can move the whole world. In fact, they are the only true sources of realistic hope.
