150 years later, a new battle over labor

[Omaha Steve]

http://peoplesworld.org/150-years-later-a-new-battle-over-labor/

by: PW Editorial Board
April 12 2011

Our country today, April 12, marks the 150th anniversary of the official start of the Civil War with the firing on Fort Sumter.

And so began the war to end slavery in the United States of America, and to keep the promise declared in the Declaration of Independence that "all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

One hundred fifty years later our country has the proud distinction of having elected its first African American president in a clear and unmistakable indication of how far this nation has come since the days when men, women and children were sold as chattel on the "free market."

For anyone with lingering doubts, President Obama's victories in North Carolina and Virginia, the home state of Jefferson Davis and the capital of the Confederacy, were firm indications that the South and indeed the country has changed perhaps forever.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the forces of ruling-class racism, however, did not take these victories lying down, and with a scarcely concealed "rebel yell" organized a hate-filled Republican/tea party revolt to undo this great victory for democracy.

FULL story at link.