An exchange on FireDogLake: Is the NDP's electoral victory in Manitoba "big news?"

My complete post and all comments can be found here:


http://my.firedoglake.com/alanmaki/2011/10/06/have-progressives-missed-the-most-important-political-news-this-week/#comment-419


Kurt,

The socialist, labor-based New Democratic Party's electoral victory in Manitoba is not only good news; it is very big news because this is a working class victory over over both Bay Street and Wall Street achieved in opposition to some of the largest multi-national corporations in mining, manufacturing, big-agribusiness, the forestry industry, the banking and telecommunications industries--- and most important of all, this important victory stymied and thwarted the attempt by Bay Street's and Wall Street's parasitical coupon clippers to get their greedy hands on Manitoba's huge publicly owned power generating industry like they did with Manitoba's modern provincially owned and operated telecommunications industry when the Bay Street and Wall Street backed Conservatives gave away it all away to these ravenous and greedy vultures.

This fourth consecutive victory for Manitobans comes at a time when the G-8/G-20 are trying to gain a choke-hold over all humanity and the fact that Manitobans are holding firm in opposition to Bay Street and Wall Street at this time as an example of how working people can stand up to these bastards makes this electoral victory placing Manitobans squarely in the forefront of international working class struggles makes this very big news.

Manitoba farmers, through their support for the NDP, are standing up in defense of the Canadian Wheat Board which has been a thorn in the side of the big grain cartels including the huge U.S. multi-nationals like Archer-Daniels-Midland and Cargill.

In choosing the NDP, workers at the huge nickle mining operation in Thompson, Manitoba have voted to save the refinery and hundreds of jobs as Vale/INCO tries to shut down the operation.

Manitoba's working class and farmers have done what workers everywhere need to do: back up their struggles in the workplace and in the streets by electing politicians from among their ranks to lead their government through these very troubling and difficult times.

Show me another local, state/provincial or federal government in North America that better reflects and represents the needs of working people and I will agree with you that this "is good news but hardly big news."

Manitoba's working class is not occupying a public square or public park--- Manitoba's working class dominates and controls the provincial government. It is time for workers everywhere to take a lesson from Manitoba's working class if we are going to be able to not only "Occupy Wall Street" but take it over and nationalize it by bringing the multi-nationals under public ownership so the wealth can be re-distributed as required.

The electoral victory of the NDP further provides us with proof of what the working class can achieve when it has real leaders; something the "leaderless" Occupy Wall Street movement might want to consider very closely lest it be hood-winked and hi-jacked by a bunch of worthless Wall Street backed politicians like Barack Obama and Ron Paul.

I understand why the Wall Street owned MainStreamMedia wants to ignore this most important electoral victory of the NDP in Manitoba; but, why has our alternative media from The Real News to Democracy Now to FireDogLake to the many left-wing newspapers and progressive blogs ignored this good news and important news story, too?