Here is why Bernie Sanders is so important.

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19. For what it's worth...

I think you're on the right track in this post Gregorian. Without our labor nothing is possible. Nothing gets built. Nothing gets done. If workers - in mass - cross their arms the ruling class is in serious trouble and they know that. Everything comes to a halt. They will do everything in their power to stop that kind of mass organization and solidarity and they are doing a damn good job at dividing us. This is the main point of were our fightback must begin. It's about more than elections. A message and a different narrative like Bernie is providing is good but it will take more than that. The only question is how much longer the suffering, exploitation, and devastation will be tolerated by the workers and the struggling. Each time capitalist crisis rears it's head more and more of us are ground into the dirt. Nobody who is just a worker is immune.


This might be dated but I'll put it up anyway. Have some problems with some things Ralph Chaplin (IWW) did and he lost his way but you can't beat this rallying cry.

Solidarity Forever

When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall run,
There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun;
Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one,
But the union makes us strong.

Solidarity forever,
Solidarity forever,
Solidarity forever,
For the union makes us strong

Is there aught we hold in common with the greedy parasite,
Who would lash us into serfdom and would crush us with his might?
Is there anything left to us but to organize and fight?
For the union makes us strong.

It is we who plowed the prairies; built the cities where they trade;
Dug the mines and built the workshops, endless miles of railroad laid;
Now we stand outcast and starving midst the wonders we have made;
But the union makes us strong.

All the world that's owned by idle drones is ours and ours alone.
We have laid the wide foundations; built it skyward stone by stone.
It is ours, not to slave in, but to master and to own.
While the union makes us strong.

They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn,
But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn.
We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn
That the union makes us strong.

In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold,
Greater than the might of armies, magnified a thousand-fold.
We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old
For the union makes us strong.

Ralph Chaplin