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Reading Settlers 4 - The Union Makes Us... Wrong?
🕑 Added 2023-09-11 09:59:02 +0000 UTCIn Chapters 5 and 6 of Settlers Sakai talks about the history of populist anti-imperialism, the emergence of the white proletariat (we do exist!), and explains how the IWW was a vehicle of white supremacy.
https://readsettlers.org/ch5.html
https://readsettlers.org/ch6.html
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Maggie+Al
going of what your quoting of him surely what old mate Sakai is getting at with IWW "misleadership" is that they were too focused on organising workers to confront their bosses and not focussed enough on convincing American workers to donate to a American Zapatista Friendship Committee that they were running as front.
The Antifada
what i meant by that it was an american-based organization that intended to be THE one big union, and wouldn't join non-IWW internationals as a result
Kevin
49 minutes,Andy correction: IWW was not simply an American org that should have joined with other unions movements, that’s not the history - mentions Mexico, Mexico had IWWs! So did Australia etc etc
