The war on labor history

[Hannah Bell]

Not content with the legislative assault on workers' rights in states like Wisconsin, Ohio and beyond, the ideologues on the far right of the budget-cutting and union-busting onslaught are also going after the history of labor struggle itself.

A reminder of the academic front in the war on working people was played out over the past several weeks at the University of Missouri, where two labor relations professors nearly lost their jobs thanks to a right-wing smear campaign involving nvasion of privacy and some crafty video editing.

Video footage of Judy Ancel, director of the Institute for Labor Studies at the university, and her colleague Don Giljum jointly teaching a class on labor relations was distorted in order to pull this out-of-context quote from the mouth of Ancel: "Violence is a tactic, and it's to be used when appropriate--the appropriate tactic..." the reality is that this is not at all what she said...

The footage was obtained from the university's video interconnect system...that video fell into the hands of none other than Andrew Breitbart...After posting it on his BigGovernment.com website, Breitbart's hit job made the rounds on conservative blogs and talk radio, prompting a virulent right-wing campaign to demand the termination of the two professors along with the entire labor studies program...


http://www.www.socialistworker.org/2011/05/26/war-on-labor-history


The same fucks have been targeting anyone in academia with a leftist stance. for years, decades.

as if the universities weren't presently *filled* with wingers.

[Brickbat]

1. I'm surprised they haven't gone after the Labor History in the Schools bill in Wisconson, which

Doyle signed in 2009. The bill requires that school curricula include the history of labor and collective bargaining.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Judy Ancel is a friend of mine

What these assholes did to her was despicable.

Thanks for posting.