Well, this shouldn't be a surprise:

GOP senators declare war on Net neutrality (Rawstory.com)

Six Republican senators have introduced an amendment that would block the Federal Communications Commission from implementing its recently announced Net neutrality policy.

Texas Republican Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison introduced the amendment to an appropriations bill. It would prevent the FCC from getting funding for any initiative to uphold Net neutrality. According to The Hill, the co-sponsors are Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS), Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) Sen. John Ensign (R-NV), Sen. John Thune (R-SD) and Sen. David Vitter (R-LA).

The move appears to be an attempt to pre-empt the FCC's expected new policy to ensure that Internet service providers don't discriminate between different types of information on their networks.

This is a fine example of class warfare, a term that gets thrown around usually when any legislation or political position might marginally favor working people. But, class warfare is ubiquitous in our society and regularly unnoticed when it's the owning class, the capitalist class, that legislates in it's interests. In this case, we have a group of flunkies for corporations attempting to create regulation that mandates corporate financial interests are upheld despite the consequences for everyone else. Corporate control of communications for profit is more important, apparently, than either consumers' access to publicly owned frequencies and networks or access to bandwidth purchased by consumers. So much for the supposedly sacrosanct contract. Ever notice that it's always big business that sets the terms and is free to adjust at whim? Talk about an unequal relationship.

Another fine example of warfare against workers is the battle being waged over access to health care, where health care corporations and those duped into supporting their financial cause are adamantly working against relatively minor reforms they label as "socialism."

Why are these instances so rarely named as such? Sure people get worked up when either party--and it is a bipartisan problem--works to promote corporate interests, but why isn't this type of class warfare called out for what it is? Why do we accept our interests are always secondary to the capitalists'?

It's past time to turn the tables.