What the U.S. needs badly in this current economic crisis is a renewed militant, class-struggle labor movement. We don't see it yet. The once-mighty United Auto Workers (UAW) which was built during the Great Depression by resolutely occuping the factories and halting the assembly lines is caving in as fast as it can to the desires of the Big Three executives for a corporate bailout from the government. And barely a squeak about the potential for rank-and-file fight back has been heard out of the other AFL-CIO affiliates, as well as from the dissident so-called "Change to Win" coalition. The United Electrical Workers, "the USA's Independent Rack-and-File Union," was one of the original CIO unions but refused on principle unlike the UAW and many other unions to cave in to McCarthyite demands to purge its radicals back in the 1950s. It still stands out head and shoulders from the whole business unionism crowd. I was not surprised it was the UE that organized the recent sit-down strike that won the day for the factory workers in Chicago. More power to them!