Striking
The vote’s
been taken, pickets are posted,
Placards
hoisted, slogans given full voice;
Their
situation leaves strikers no choice
As wages
fall, while profits are boosted
At the
workers’ expense. This feels arranged
As was the
broad discontent forty years
Ago which
surely must provoke fears
That forty
years on nothing much has changed.
Inflation is
still whittling away pay,
Governments
of various stripes all show
It matters
little how they come and go,
While the
interests of capital hold sway.
Class
solidarity may win, but then,
Gains
secured will be taken back again.
D. A.
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