In the IWW battle for Taiwanese workers
skirmishes and aversions like a French &
Indian War
rarely has there ever been self-management
an occasional murdered owner
thousands of mom and pop collectives
while Mao agreed to let socialists in Taiwan be
never were collective decisions enjoyed by the
progs
while warlord Chiang divvied the land to the KMT
then
on orders of American overseers
martial law was lifted
it seemed a chance for workers duly gifted
but top-down remained
the ruling class gained
Bian was imprisoned and there went the vision
to China in deed America flees
keeping the economy under its thumb
workers who’ve suffered these sixteen years
through dead-end jobs
at part-time convenience stores, my son
China through Cooloud’s communist big shots
workers remain downtrodden and defeated
bosses from China and America keep
workers unorganized falling asleep
in the confusion no revolution
the Industrial Worker solution
nowhere to land
where is the path to indigenous hearts?
like Native Americans who took French and English
parts
how can they be armed with power to fight
for neither side but the workers' might?
how can they be moved to reach a new level?
how can One Big Union defeat the devil?
like thread through a needle
a seamstress’s seed will
pull the garment together
it will win better
11-19-13
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