"And while the Labour Party did eventually grow out of the Red Feds, I think the original ideas of the strike — its outright militancy against the company, its calling for the destruction of the capitalist class, along with the IWW and radical syndicalist ideas which influenced it — have very few things in common with the Labour Party, both past and present."
Very poignant point postulated. I see that the new Blackball Museum is taking the same old rigid line -- that of writing syndicalism out of history. They have a display for the 'communists' and Labour Party, but none for the syndicalists. The history of the left is much more rich and diverse than the class collaborationist Labour Party and the miniscule Communist Party.
Re: Blackball 08 — 100 Years On
Date Edited: 25 Mar 2008 07:39:31 AM
Very poignant point postulated. I see that the new Blackball Museum is taking the same old rigid line -- that of writing syndicalism out of history. They have a display for the 'communists' and Labour Party, but none for the syndicalists. The history of the left is much more rich and diverse than the class collaborationist Labour Party and the miniscule Communist Party.
Who was the NZ anarcha-feminist in NY?