In an era of growing acceptance of racist demagogues—if not outright creeping fascism—strategy for working-class institutions has to give equal weight to strategic political education as it does to winning material gains. The two go together. The material wins in this UPS contract will be life-changing for many workers—a tremendous achievement, and nothing to diminish. We will need more, though, from all our organizations—especially those with unusually high strategic workplace leverage—if we’re going to win the country, and planet, workers deserve.
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