Michael Yates
Sam Pawlett wrote:
>
> Apsken at aol.com wrote:
>
> Today's
> > Wobblies are mostly nostalgic for a syndicalist past that never existed, and
> > many, like ChuckO, represent an anarchist strain that the old IWW
> > specifically repudiated (as when it urged the Communist International to
> > become an affiliate -- too bad that didn't happen).
> >
>
> Indeed. Big Bill Haywood and other Wobblies actually were forced to flee
> the USA and settled in the USSR. Of course this was while Lenin was
> still alive but I've always wondered what Haywood and the others thought
> of the USSR. The last IWW actions in the US were California's Redwood
> Summer and an organizing drive at a major bookstore chain.
>
> Sam Pawlett