Brody on Josh Freeman's Working-Class New York

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Jul 27 17:10:26 PDT 2000


Mark Rickling wrote:


> . Yet in a larger sense it is hard to believe that
> anticommunism didn't have a chilling effect upon challenges to the emerging
> business unionism of the post-war period. New York seems to be the exception
> here, not the rule.

Consider what might have been different in the anti-war movement had there still been an important left presence in the unions in 1965. What might have been the history of DRUM had there been a surviving left presence in UAW leadership.

Carrol



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