During the allied occupation of Germany, the us basically removed socialists from union leadership and put conservatives in their place, so nowdays unions just rubber stamp company policies. And remember it was polish unions that brought down their socialist republic.

Most unions (exceptions?) in the imperial core are not revolutionary in the slightest, their goal is securing overtime + wage stabilization for a select group of workers. You guys need land reform, capital controls + expropriation measures, employment & education provisions. None of that is a part of western leftist politics, including the stuff that postures as radical and antiimperialist. If it doesn't even educate people on the economic structure of imperialism, how can it be revolutionary because it quotes Sankara? Mamdani is easy to criticize. People need to see what the PSL, the FRSO, and others are doing by repainting failed Vietnam War era sheepdog tactics that coincided with the repression of armed movements and the successes of Ho Chi Minh, taking credit for the sacrifices of the latter