In the latest round of their strategy to divide and conquer working people, the right-wing has launched an attack on workers in the public sector, aiming to pit them against workers in the private sector (at least after pitting them both against immigrant workers in all sectors).  Unable to shake the worst economic crisis since the Depression, Republicans  – and yes, some Democrats  – are hell-bent on shifting the blame away from their allies on Wall Street who continue to bring in record profits, and instead focus their malice on public employees.  Demonized as lazy, overpaid bureaucrats, teachers, firefighters, bus drivers, librarians, sanitation workers, and millions more are being put on trial for the crimes of investment bankers, hedge-fund managers and the handful of finance sector executives who have actually made money on the backs of the laid-off, foreclosed-on workers.

You do not have to be a lifetime activist to see through the muck on this one, this battle is over who controls the basic livelihoods of the overwhelming majority of the country: working people or corporations.

In order to unite and fight back, working people must fully understand the different battlefields of this attack.  Corporate fat cats, led by

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