Yale just
fired an anthropology professor and self-proclaimed anarchist. That must have made faculty meetings interesting. But down at the bottom of the article it mentions that he carries an IWW card. I thought the IWW was disbanded after its entire leadership was killed or deported in the 30s.
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Hey! My great-uncle Cosimo the Communist didn't get deported (although kids weren't allowed to talk to him at family reunions, lest they get the socialist cooties).
8:41 PM, December 07, 2005
The leadership was imprisoned as a result of the Palmer Raids, which took place in the 1918-20 time period. My book about the Colorado coal strike of 1927:
http://www.rebelgraphics.org/serene.html
...demonstrates that they had an impact years later. But the combination of the imprisonment and a split in the mid-twenties over the question of "centralization" took a serious toll.
The IWW has existed continuously for a century. While the mainstream labor movement has been losing membership over the past fifty years, the IWW is growing. But in comparison we are still quite small.
The IWW website is here:
http://iww.org
I first joined the IWW about fifteen years ago. I've also spent 33 years in an AFL-CIO union. I greatly prefer the IWW, because it upholds real union values.
3:10 AM, December 08, 2005
Thanks for the update, Richard. My knowledge of the IWW is confined to a long-ago section of AP US History and, of course, "People's History."
9:53 AM, December 08, 2005
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