Portside

The absence of a socialist left rooted in the working-class is deeply felt in the declining role of the union movement in leading social struggles in Canada as it had for a century.

Bob White played an historic role in building working class understanding of key principles: the need for workers to control their own class institutions; the need to maintain an understanding of the conflict of interests between workers and employers, the need to maintain a capacity to collectively struggle and resist, a rejection of competitiveness as a goal or concessions as a strategy, and the need for unions to develop an independent political capacity.