New From LA: Just What We Need - A Leftwing (Immigrant) Labor Movement

As the Democrats convene for their coronation         in Los Angeles, two powerful accounts have been         published of the way in which Hispanic         immigration into California is fuelling a new,         class-conscious, race-based, militant labor         union movement: Lloyd Billingsley's "Union         Card for Green Card: The Radical Vanguard in the         Los Angeles Labor Movement," posted on the         Capital Research website http://www.capitalresearch.org/LaborWatch/lw-0800.htm;         and Harold Meyerson's "Back to the         Future" in the August 13 Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
articles/A15043-2000Aug12.html

Meyerson, who approves, says that         "Latinos have become the single most         left-leaning group in the entire state."         The future to which he happily alludes is         "the New Age version of the big city         immigrant ghettoes out of which the Democratic         Party of Franklin Roosevelt emerged, and out of         which a nationwide progressive movement may yet         emerge."

Just what we needed.

Of course, the same milieu produced the         neocon intellectuals who proclaim from e.g. the Wall         Street Journal Edit Page that "family         values" made Hispanic immigrants natural         Republicans.

They were wrong. Funny thing.

August 13, 2000