As for presidential candidates Ralph Nader of the Green Party and Pat Buchanan of the Reform Party, both are increasingly marginalized. Nader's attacks against corporate power, environmental pollution, worker exploitation, health care fraud and neglect, and political corruption gained him considerable popular support, especially in California and Michigan. This began to erode when he failed to aggressively support Black aspirations, even though his causes affect Blacks more than any other group. As soon as the courts ruled Buchanan the winner, he launched his campaign with a speech at Bob Jones University-the openly racist Southern institution where Bush spoke and unleashed a storm of national outrage that forced him to apologize for appearing there. The massive financial power of the Democrats and Republicans does not go unchallenged.
Revolt remains a growing everyday occurrence.
At other times, the revolt is clear, powerful and involves many people. The Black and Latino rebellion in l992 in Los Angeles, for instance, gave new life to the idea of transforming society. The recent strikes of janitors in Los Angeles and Chicago, of pilots, flight attendants and mechanics at several airlines, of the Boeing engineers and the Verizon communication workers, the bus and transit workers' strike in Los Angeles, the unreported struggles of Black women workers in the South seeking not only union protection but fundamental change of the racist South, the movement by college youth to eliminate sweatshop working conditions in Third World countries producing goods for American markets, the strike by GM auto workers last year that closed down the largest corporation in the world-all constitute a mass rebellion against existing conditions and the instinctive striving to transform society. It is a striving always thwarted by an entrenched union bureaucracy that is also tied to the ruling political parties. Most significant of the recent rebellions is the coalition of workers, youth, gays and environmentalists who have joined together to battle the globalization of capital and the destruction it leaves in its wake.