I just returned from calling Wisconsin teachers in a labor phone bank of New Jersey's National Education Association  and our own Rutgers AAUP-AFT.  .  While I was mostly leaving messages, I did get through to a  few teachers and their families.  One  particularly I would like to share with our readers.

She was retired teacher who at first had her answering machine on because she was sick of solicitation calls.  But she picked up the receiver as I began my message.  She told me that while she was legally bind, she had been campaigning against Walker, stuffing evenvelopes against him, even sending money to his opponent, Milwaukee Mayor Barrett.  She understood the importance of defeating Walker and also knew about our governor in New Jersey, a heavyweight version of Walker with the same featherweight mentality.  When I talked about the difficulty in fighting the corruption and money in politics, she was hopeful that decent people cound and would stop Walker and that whatever happened tomorrow the fight must go on.

I thought of that teacher in response to two nasty comments that I received for my  previous blog article on the Battle for Wisconsin when it was posted on the Bell Forum. 

 Let me say that I have nothing against the Bell Forum, but I was unable to regsister whatever I did and respond, even though   I would be responding to  a leftism that is pre infantile, that most would consider  i not worth worth  any response,

I  will respond in kind because  knee jerk attacks on all Democrats in response to any attempt to build a united front agaisnt the Republican right, is out there as a kind of pseudo politics, a "position" that in our context make be called, Anarcho-Knucklehead.

Someone using the pseudonym Blind Pig, called me "Norm"(I have friends who call me that but this was  clearly no friend) and saw the whole thing as the  Democratic party's trouble--the usual jazz  that , Walker Obama Romney all result in same policy, that  the CPUSA is holding the people back.  Blind Pig even through some dirt on my series of Dimitrov, even though Dimitrov was condemning and fighting  exactly the kind of self-isolating, self-segregating sectarianism that neither teaches nor learns from the working class. 

Blind Pig(not really  a pseudo nym to rally the masses) really is blind in a way that that farsighted retired teacher never  would be. Another responder who took my comparision of Walker with Joe McCarthy out of context to use the kind of language that William Z. Foster, responding to a Hearst Press labor baiter, called "toilet journalism" also threw his pebble thinking perhaps it was a stone.  Actually, Howard Stern would be more of a role model for the second "anarcho-knucklehead."

I hope to return to the phones tomorrow and urge our readers to contact their unions and their central labor councils to see  if they can volunteer for the final push. 

Actually, the fact that the national Democratic party has not gone all out for the recall drive and the way that many organizational Democratic leaders have defined the recall drive as a last resort deserves criticism. 

 But these organization Democrats, who as Dimitrov noted about social democrats and liberal parties in the 1930s Europe, may be more interested in their "soft seats" than in doing something to fight fascism, are not the trade unionists, working class activists, even many rank and file Democrats, who despise both what Walker represents and what he has done and will continue the fight against both, regardless of the outcome of tomorrow's recall vote.