Re; Pop Front Communists and WWII Demobilization

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Wed Aug 22 21:26:50 PDT 2001


Halstead wrote, "Out Now: A Participant's Acct. of the Anti-War Movement." Published by Pathfinder mid 70's. Blurbed by the Noamster. Michael Pugliese

-----Original Message----- From: david walters <tialsedov at hotmail.com> To: debsian at pacbell.net <debsian at pacbell.net> Date: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 8:45 PM Subject: RE: ['spotters] Re: Miklos Haraszti, ex-maoist


>
>I don't have the pamphlet on Vorkuta or the anti-war movement at the end of
>WWII. Fred Halsted, who had participated in this movement in PI, gave a
>detailed account of this. Nothing was mentioned of the CP, only the active
>role of the SWP (mostly US Navy and Marine perseonnel), demos of up to
>50,000 "Bring us home now!" rallies.
>
>David
>
>From: "michael pugliese" <debsian at pacbell.net>
>To: dwalters at igc.org
>Subject: RE: ['spotters] Re: Miklos Haraszti, ex-maoist
>Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 18:25:00 -0700
>
>
> Hmm, from Solzhenitsyn (that will really set James Tait off
>if I mention I read some of the GULAG Arch.!) if I remeber right
>he only mentioned the one in the 50's. Interesting. On the net
>typing in Vorkuta revolt only brought up disgusting, neo-nazi
>websites like JewWatch and such. you have a copy of the pamphlet?
>Also, do you know anything about CPUSA'er and Trots in the US
>Army militantly demanding demobilization after WWII so they would
>not be used to suppress the Vietnamese or Filipinos? In the latest
>PWW there was a letter from William Pomeroy on this. Michael
>BBQ this weekend?
> >From: dwalters at igc.org
> >To: leftist_trainspotters at yahoogroups.com
> >Date: 8/22/01 6:13:28 PM
> >There is actually a book or pamphlet the SWP put out this rebellion.


> >There were actually several of them, beginning in the late 30s
>and
> >
> >one in 1940 when the Trotskyist miners demanded to join the
>Red Army
> >
> >to defend Russia. There were others into the 50s.
> >
> >
> >
> >David Walters


> >> Trying to find cites on the Vorkuta revolt in the GULAG
>by
> >
> >> the trotskyists, ran across this paper by Michael Burawoy,
>neo-
> >
> >marxist
> >
> >> at UC, Berkeley who writes on the labor process under kapitalism
> >
> >> and the former
> >
> >> socialist countries. Unlike almost all academics he has actually
> >
> >> been a factory worker.
> >
> >> Post-Braverman, labor process has been a fertile field in
>left
> >
> >> political economy and sociology.
> >
> >> The critique of Haraszti, "Worker in a Worker's State,
>" cited
> >
> >> here by Mike Pearn a while back, in
> >
> >> in part 2 of this paper, A Comparative History of Despotism."
> >
> >> www.hi.rutgers.edu/szelenyi60/burawoy.html
> >
> >> Szelenyi, btw, wrote, "Intellectuals on the Road to Class
> >
> >> Power, " a "New Class" type of analysis of Hungarian socialism
> >
> >> of the Hungarian SWP.
> >
> >> Michael Pugliese



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