Wobblies

Michael Yates mikey+ at pitt.edu
Sat Mar 18 06:27:14 PST 2000


As I remember, Haywood and Emma Goldman did not care for the USSR too much. But I could be wrong.

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



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