I have a thing for old pamphlets. Occasionally when I have the cash I’ll get one or two off the interweb, related to a subject matter or group I’m interested in. I have a few about Italian stuff in the 70s. I really like the mimeograph look - there’s an urgency to it. I’m too young to know how mimeo works, but I picture it as some machine with a crank arm, I can see some hardworking stern-faced leftist cranking this arm, running off pages, thinking “we must tell the comrades about this!” (Incidentally, in a phone conversation with Scott McLemee a few years ago - I’d posted a trainspotting question to an email list about the name of the publication of one of the descendents of the Johnson-Forest Tendency and he’d kindly offered to call me and let me pick his brain - Scott offered a nice and succinct history of American Trotskyism: “whoever got to the mimeograph machine first won out in a split.” Mimeo is clearly tremendously important and overlooked.)
Anyway, so I got this copypaper box mostly full of pamphlets. Quality varies, but recently I’ve dug out all the ones I can remember with stuff on Italy back in the day because I met someone interested in this stuff. Among this stuff are two UK reprints/translations of pieces by Lotta Continua (their Take Over The City program, and a talk, delivered at the Telos conference in 1971, on organization); a Canadian translation of a piece written by Adriano Sofri on vanguards and unions, the piece is credited in the pamphlet as a Lotta Continua document; two issues of Urgent Tasks, the journal of Sojourner Truth Organization, with pieces on events in Italy; an issue of a journal called Ripening of the Time, which one of the Urgent Tasks issues refers to as the organ of a group called Revolutionary struggle, that seems to me distressingly pro-Red Brigades; and an issue of a journal called Radical America, dedicated to events in Italy. This issue also reprints the Sofri piece (dated in this case as written 1968, published 1969, part of the Pisa Potere Operaio group which later become part of Lotta Continua), “Take over the city”, and a 1973 piece by Potere Operaio. All of which is a long digression motivated by my own bibliographophilia.
In this issue of Radical America is a reprint of a letter to Radical America from the US offices of Fiat making “an urgent request” on behalf of Fiat HQ in Turin, asking for a copy of an article that appeared issue 3 of volume 5 of Radical America: “Counter-planning on the Shop Floor” by Bill Watson. The letter says that the Fiat US office had gotten Radical America’s address from the New York Library because they “were unable to attain [Radical America’s] telephone number from the Telephone Directory Information Service of Cambridge, Mass. because of no listing under “Radical America”.”
The reprint is used as an ad for the article in pamphlet form (”only 10c.”), with a blurb at the bottom of the page saying if Fiat thinks the piece is urgent reader so should Radical America readers. I wonder at the following: how did Fiat find out about the article? Why did they want it? Did Radical America send it to them? If so, what did Fiat use it for? When time permits, I’ll have to start emailing the folks I can find contact info for, I’m very curious about this. Preliminary googling of Watson pulls up a lot of stuff on the history of Chrysler, not unsurprising, as the piece here is about autoworkers. Hmm.
(Incidentally, Radical America listed Paul Buhle, who has written on James and on the IWW, among other things, as one of the journals editors. Among the associate editors, Martin Glaberman and Stan Weir. Very interesting. Lovely, even. Must remember to google the other listed editors. Also incidentally, Glaberman wrote a reply with some others, published in 1980, to claims made against Negri in an article by Thomas Sheehan.)
Note to self, see also: http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/onlinessays/jc12.13folder/40swkgclass.html
It is quite interesting to me that you have these pamphlets. I myself have several dozen different pamphlets from the early 1970s as well as old publications from the USSR publishing house. I am tempted to transcribe them when I find the time and wonder if anyone would mind. None seem to be available online. Perhaps you could do the same with yours sometime?
Comment by Edie — March 31, 2006 @ 11:30 pm
hi Edie,
Thanks for the comment. What stuff do you have from the USSR? I’ve got a bunch of Marx books in the International Publishers editions … I think we may differ on the USSR, I’m not sure and it’s not a productive issue most likely anyway but in any case that’s really interesting. I lived for a year really close to the CP-USA bookstore in Chicago, I used to go in and look at the old socialist children’s book a lot and ask the older volunteers for info on the Spanish Civil War. I really like the International Publishers stuff. Even if I don’t always agree or whatever, I like that the publishing is linked to politics. It’s much nicer than, say, Penguin, for whom the publishing is also linked to politics (the reproduction of the capital form) but in an obfuscated way.
I think transcribing stuff is a really good idea. I wonder if it might be easier to use some sort of scanning thing - I think there are scanners/scanner programs that can recognize letters now, instead of just taking a picture of the text. Some of them have trouble with the print in older pamphlets (this is part of why there’s weird typos in some of the texts online by folks like Mario Tronti, I think) If I was more tech-savvy I’d know more about this. Maybe we could start just by listing the titles of the stuff we’ve got?
One of the things that I get really excited about with all this stuff is … well, the micro-histories of the pamphlets, for lack of a better term. Who made them, where did they get the info, where did they distribute the pamphlets, who read them, what did people get from writing and reading this stuff, where did all these people go over time and where are they now, stuff like that really fascinates me. Like the Adriano Sofri text - Sofri is, I think, still in prison or if not was only just recently let out. Who were the Canadian lefties who translated the Sofri, what did they get up etc? My friend Mike is writing a history of the Sojourner Truth Organization, I think we could really use a lot more of those kinds of histories. I knew a handful of ex-STO people in Chicago and while I disagreed with some of them on broader issues (I’m sectarian enough to care about that stuff) they were really solid people in terms of their activism (mostly labor solidarity kind of stuff, around Jobs With Justice, that’s the context I knew them in) and were just good people. And they’d thought about a lot of stuff and it was great to get to engage with. Or someone like Stan Weir - his book and the stuff his publishing company put out is all so great, and I’m sure there’s other folks like that who many of us never hear about and don’t get to engage with by reading about them or reading things they wrote.
Something else I just thought about is the stuff that goes into (some of the time anyway) collective editing and writing and all that - people thinking together. Especially for people who don’t get paid to write and talk I think that’s a really big deal. That’s something else it’d be great to know more about (Weir’s small press, Singlejack Books, had a working class autobiography and memoir and fiction focus, which I really appreciate and the impact of which I’m intensely curious about.) I can say that the handful of experiences like that that I’ve had have been as productive and exciting as many of the better moments of my official education.
I think part of my impulse with initially collecting pamphlets (and I hope it’s clear, not just as an aesthetic thing, I’ve read a fair amount of stuff that I take pretty seriously in pamphlet form, I think it’s an underrated way to encounter stuff - I think my friend Steve initially got interested in the Italian 60s/70s stuff, which he later wrote a book on, from Red Notes pamphlets he read on the subject) came from punk rock zine circles, where it was about trying to think through things about growing up and about school and class and gender and sex and all that, often in really dumb ways but it was a huge deal none the less. A part of more self-consciously becoming someone, and making choices, and trying to understand the world. Sorry, I’m rambling. Please, tell me about your pamphlet collection. I’ve got a busy few weeks ahead but I’d be happy to dig through the box soon and list out some of the stuff.
best wishes,
Nate
Comment by Nate — April 1, 2006 @ 5:12 am
Hey there,
I was just looking at that same issue of RA last week, and that letter from FIAT made me laugh. I guess I assume that some writings by Potere Operiao (or whoever) had mentioned Watson’s piece, and the FIAT research wing was trying to get a better picture of the militants’ plans; corporate COINTELPRO, if you will. I also like to assume that RA didn’t actually send them a copy, but I further suppose FIAT was eventually able track it down anyway.
As I understand it, PO in particular was as obsessive about fringe workerist movements in the US as you and I are about obscure revolutionary pamphlets (my personal favorite: an Argentine-published anarchist critique of the limits of Bolshevism in Russia, published in Buenos Aires in 1921, which I bought for about one dollar off some table at a punk show there in 1999). The Italian revolutionaries collected everything they could from the League of Revolutionary Black Workers and the Black Workers’ Congress, for instance, and even managed to obtain copies of a bunch of very early publications of the Sojourner Truth Organization, which a member of the group found out only in the late seventies on a visit to Italy.
I was looking at that issue of RA because the early trajectory of STO was really influenced by operaismo, although much moreso by the practice than by the theory. The whole notion of mass independent (i.e. extra-union) revolutionary workers’ organizations found a clear model in groups like PO and the events of the Hot Autumn in 1970 (when STO was less than a year old). At the same time relatively little by Tronti or Negri or others had been translated into English yet, so the influence of operaist theory was pretty limited in STO at that point (though it became more prominent later). So I was trying familiarize myself with some of that background, and came across my old copy of the RA issue on Italy.
Speaking of old issues of RA, you can find bunches of them in very nice PDF form at http://dl.lib.brown.edu/radicalamerica/ . This archive is hosted by Brown University, presumably because Paul Buhle and his wife Mari-Jo work there. Paul was not only an editor of RA, he was if I understand correctly its primary founder. (Coincidentally, in the early 90’s, my brother lived for a while at the house in Madison, Wisconsin that had been RA’s headquarters for several years in the late sixties and early seventies.) A couple other interesting RA connections: for many years the magazine was printed by Fredy Perlman and his comrades in Detroit, who are now mostly remembered for the anarchist publication the Fifth Estate, but who were also responsible for the first US publication of Society of the Spectacle. Also, Franklin and Penelope Rosemont, Chicago-based surrealists and the people mostly in charge of the Charles Kerr publishing house here, were RA editors for several years.
As for Stan Weir, he was, without even knowing it, partly responsible for the initial political direction of STO: according to one of the founding members, the notion of mass independent workers’ organizations really began to click for him when he was told by a third party (who has a whole interesting background herself but never joined STO) that “Stan Weir says, the unions will never change anything…” I still haven’t read much by Weir, and if you have any recommendations for short pieces that I should tackle, I would appreciate it.
Okay, this comment is getting way too long. One last thing: I have set up (but not yet posted anything to) a blog to track my research on STO at http://sojournertruth.blogsome.com/ . I’m hoping to have it up and running this weekend, and you will be thanked in my first post, for having gotten me to take blogs more seriously, and also for inspiring me to try to write on a regular basis. Once I start posting, I’d love to hear what you think.
Solidarity,
Mike
Comment by Mike — April 1, 2006 @ 3:04 pm
Mike,
You’re very kind, thanks. I’ll link to the blog ASAP. Thanks as well to the RA archive, that looks great! Maybe at some point you and me and a couple other folks could do a short reading or three and discussion on radical history/historiography - maybe focusing on the how and the why more than the what: the uses of it, how to do it, topics that could stand more attention, etc. Just a thought, what do you think?
Re: Weir, what I’ve got is a collection called “Singlejack Solidarity,” made up of short essays and such. (There’s a really beautiful and sad one called “I am lonely” that really struck me, and some great stuff on the function of informal workgroups in workplace organizing, several comrades in the IWW have cited that as pretty influential on their thought.) Weir ran a publishing house I think just out of pocket, I think that’s how Glaberman’s Bewick Edition worked too. I keep meaning to track down stuff published by both imprints, and it’d be great to try to interview some of the folk who published stuff through those. Reading these guys is really inspiring, makes me want to do all kinds of things.
Those connections between different groups are really fascinating, and a nice corrective against a ‘nothing happens/could happen here’ mentality: if the Italian far left was looking to Detroit and the LRBW, then maybe the US hasn’t been the desert it’s often thought to be. I have to say, I totally love the IWW connections with all this: I think the Rosemonts were IWW members, connected with Rebel Worker magazine/newspaper, and Buhle is a member today (don’t know if he was back in the day).
Mike, what would you think about - when time permits - catalogging our respective pamphlet collections? Then you and me and Edie (if you’re interested Edie) could see about a pamphlet copy exchange arrangement. Some of this stuff may be online, of course - a lot of the old Solidarity UK stuff is online different places (and which really ought to be reprinted and put back into paper circulation). I gotta run.
take care,
Nate
ps- Mike, just curious, do you know if Dave Roediger is ex-STO?
Comment by Nate — April 1, 2006 @ 9:00 pm
hey gang,
I typed up the names of the stuff in my box. This a list of my stuff, just in the order it was in the box. I didn’t list journals or magazine issues for the most part (I’ve got a few issues of stuff like Processed World, Arsenal, Northeastern Anarchist, Aufheben, and many issues of the Industrial Worker).
This is very collector-y of me, but I’d love to track down everything I could by Solidarity UK and Big Flame. I also really want to know a lot more about Black And Red (Detroit), among other folk. It’d also be fun to try and track folk down who were part of these different efforts, or who read the stuff or were in the millieu, and get info from them/interview them.
Best,
Nate
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Photocopy of Alfredo Bonanno “Armed Joy”
R. Gregoire and F. Perlman “Worker-Student Action Committees: France May ‘68″
Solidarity (UK), “The Bolsheviks and Workers’ Control” (I believe by Maurice Brinton, this is available online)
Paul Wallis and Arthur Bauman, “Artie Cuts Out” (I believe Glaberman had a hand in this)
Solidarity (UK), “As we don’t see it” (this is online)
Big Flame, “Ford: Five Months of Struggle”
Jack Kramer, “Punching Out” (Glaberman wrote this pseudonymously, this is collected in his book Punching Out)
Martin Glaberman, “Shopfloor struggles of American workers” (photocopy put out by some wobs)
Noel Ignatiev, “Introduction to the United States: An Autonomist political history” (photocopy, this is online.
Information Correspondance Ouvreires “Poland: 1970-1971, Capitalism and Class Struggle” (printed by Black and Red, Detroit - who were those people?)
Libertarian Socialist Organization (Australia) “Politics of Human Liberation: Revolution Re-Assessed”
G. Munis and J. Zerzan, “Unions Against Revolution: Two Essays” (At least one of these is online)
Henri Simon, “Poland 1980-82, Class Struggle and the Crisis of Capital”
Loren Goldner, “Class Struggle Beyond Unionism” (Photocopy by Insane Dialectical Editions - www.idpeditions.org)
Martin Glaberman, “Revolutionary Optimist” (Also by IDE)
Stan Weir, “Class War Lessons From Direct Action On The Job To The ‘46 Oakland General Strike” (Also by IDE)
Crimethinc, “The Abolition of Work” (Photocopy)
Barbara Ehrendreich and Deirdre English, “Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers”
Selma James, “Marx and Feminism”
Selma James, “Sex, Race, and Class”
Alexandra Kollantai, “Women Workers Struggle For Their Rights”
Isaac Puente, “Libertarian Communism”
Aufheben, Wildcat, Mouvement Communiste, and Precari-Nati, “Stop The Clock! Critiques of the New Social Workhouse”
CLR James, “State Capitalism and World Revolution” (Facing Reality Pamphlet)
CLR James, “Dialectics and History: An Introduction”
Terry Moon and Ron Brokmeyer, “On The 100th Anniversary of the First General Strike In The US” (News and Letter Pamphlet)
News and Letters ,”The Coal Miners’ General Strike of 1949-50 and the Birth of Marxist-Humanism in the US”
?? “Anarchism In Turkey” (Photocopy)
?? “Revolution Is All Of Us” (Photocopy, about a trip to Chiapas and the EZLN
?? “A Day Mournful And Overcast” (Written by a member of the Iron Column in Spain upon the professionalization of the militias during the Civil War. I bought this at a bookstall at a show at the Congress Theater, I forget who, and I think it was Mike who sold it to me, along with a couple issues of Arsenal magazine)
Solidarity, “Paris: May 1968″ (This is reprinted in a collection, I think called “The Situationists And The Beach”)
Fredy Perlman, “The Reproduction of Everyday Life”
Peter Kropotkin, “Anarchist Morality” (photocopy)
Angela Terrano, Marie Dignan, Mary Holmes “Working Women For Freedom” (News and Letters publication, includes a Dunayevskaya article)
Alexandra Kollantai, “International Women’s Day”
Ruth Hall, Selma James, Judit Kertesz, “The Rapist Who Pays The Rent”
Radical America, Vol8,#6
Spectacular Times #7 “Women And The Spectacle”
Spectacular Times #11 “More of the Shame”
?? “Blood in the Street” (About Ireland, lists Lotta Continua - an address in Roma and one in London - and Peoples Democracy as the organizations involved)
FRAC, “Organizational Principles”
Silvia Federici, “The IMF and the Debt: Africa and the New Enclosures” (Photocopy, listed as “A Red Balloon Collective Pamphlet”)
Dunayevskaya and Denby, “American Civilization On Trial: Black Masses As Vanguard” (News and Letters)
Solidarity (UK), Vol7 #6
Big Flame, “Shop Steward and the Class Struggle” and “Docks and Fords” (Mimeo and stapled newsletter style)
Red Notes, “Dario Fo and Franca Rame Theatre Workshops At Riverside Studios, London”
Dunayevskaya, “Outline of Marx’s Capital Volume One” (got this from News and Letters, RD used to use this in reading groups she lead on Capital)
Red Notes, “A Songbook”
Andy Anderson, “Hungary ‘56″ (Solidarity UK)
Red Notes, “Working Class Autonomy And The Crisis” (Photocopy)
Comment by Nate — April 2, 2006 @ 7:55 am
Note to self: some stuff to check out referenced in this discussion thread - http://carldavidson.blogspot.com/2005/10/privilege-weather-underground-science.html
Comment by Nate — April 2, 2006 @ 9:06 am
Other note to self: organizational history chart worth looking at when there’s more time
http://www.tc.umn.edu/%7Esigal003/left_history/lnrchart.htm
Comment by Nate — April 2, 2006 @ 9:14 am
Update:
Preliminary research via email…
Paul Buhle’s hypothesis is the same as Mike’s - Potere Operaio translated Watson’s article and circulated it. He didn’t know anything in particular. He said Watson was part of the Root and Branch group in some way, who I hadn’t heard of. Some googling turned up these:
http://www.labor.iu.edu/LaborHistory/rab/home.html
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/2379/rb2.htm
http://geocities.com/cordobakaf/ico_may.html
(And this, unrelated, simply due to the use of the words “root and branch” in one of their pamphlets:
http://www.weisbord.org/ and here because of a citation of a Root and Branch pamphlet http://nefac.net/book/print/1871)
All of this is material to look over later…
On the Root and Branch archive site, in issue 2 of their magazine, was the following article on women working at Fiat, which R&B say was printed originally in Lotta Continua: http://www.labor.iu.edu/LaborHistory/rab/02/fiatwomen.html
This suggests the following other options, perhaps: that the connection was not Watson via Radical America to Italy but
some other, maybe some Detroit-to-Italy connection with the Watson-to-Radical America connection coming from another direction; that Fiat may have gotten the article from Lotta Continua not PotOp (there’s also an LC/PotOp connection that I don’t understand, like Sofri’s PotOp group that became part of LC).
Michael Hardt suggested trying to reach Gambino, saying he was very important in introducing the Detroit folk and US black power stuff into Italian circles. I got a few other leads on this stuff, will try to follow up and post any results.
Other unrelated thing: piece by UK group Rising Free, which draws on Italian stuff but disses on Big Flame. Something else to file away.
Comment by Nate — April 2, 2006 @ 6:53 pm
Wow. You have a lot of things by folks I have never heard of. Most of my stuff is from the Worker’s League, Labor Publications, the Bulletin, Young Socialist Publication, and Trotskyists associated with those. I know there is a scanner of some sort, but whatever it is, I’m sure I won’t have access to it. I think, all the same, I would really like to transcribe one little booklet in particular, from 1970, written by Tim Wohlforth. Probably you know all about him… Anyway, the piece is called “Black Nationalism & Marxist Theory,” although it was originally entitled, “The New Nationalism and the Negro Struggle” when it was written in 1969. I really wish I could get ahold of some of the pamphlets advertised on the back! “Revisionists in Crisis” by Wohlforth, on 50 cents. “Reform or Revolution,” 15 cents.
Comment by Edie — April 2, 2006 @ 10:36 pm
hi Edie,
Right back at you - I don’t know these folks you’re referencing either. I know what you mean about getting the pamphlets advertized on the backs of other pamphlets, that’d be great. Do you know where were some of these groups were operating, geographically, and where they came from lineage-wise? I’m not as up on who split from whom etc as I used to be, and I was never super steeped in that stuff. Lately I’ve become more interested in all of that.
take care,
Nate
Comment by Nate — April 2, 2006 @ 10:53 pm
Hello again,
Very quickly: 1) I’d love to do some readings on radical history stuff; I’ll think about stuff to read. 2) David Roediger was not in STO, although he did tell me a great anecdote about a disagreement he had with Noel during those years, which I’ll tell you someday. 3) I’d love to catelogue my pamphlets, but I don’t know when I’ll have the time; I am working on a bibliography of all STO publications, which I will post to my blog at some point. 4) I have copies of two of the Root and Branch pamphlets you provided links to (the translated piece on France in 68, and the “No Class Today, No Ruling Class Tomorrow” piece). The website you identified said more than I knew, which was pretty much just that Jeremy Brecher had been a member and that “Strike!” was initially an R&B project. 5) Yep, I probably sold you the copy of “Day Mournful…” in addition to having helped in its production back in 1997 or so. 6) I’d love to get copies of the Big Flame stuff you have. 7) Black and Red Detroit was Fredy and Lorraine Perlman and a handful of others, including some of the Fifth Estate people; I’ve been perusing “Having Little, Being Much” which is Fredy’s biography, and has some interesting information on that front (including some tentative connections between B&R and the LRBW). Okay, I have to run.
Solidarity,
Mike
Comment by Mike — April 3, 2006 @ 2:36 pm
Hi Nate–
AK Press have brought out the book “For Workers’ Power” which is a compilation of Maurice Brinton’s writings. I’m fairly sure I have some old Solidarity pamphlets from the late 70s/early 80s knocking around. I got a Bewick edition of “Facing Reality” via Jim Monk ( http://homepage.mac.com/jimmonk/iblog/C265541295/E976316708/index.html ) who was a friend of Marty Glaberman.
Comment by John — April 3, 2006 @ 4:43 pm
Okay, so, to be clear: I normally have a policy against doing this - I don’t post from emails from people to me without asking. It’s a privacy and respect thing, it just doesn’t feel right a lot of the time. (I don’t have an argument so much as a gut feeling, and my gut is kinda conservative or old fashioned when it comes to etiquette and
hospitality.) That said, Mike and I have been having an email exchange on this very topic. I’m going to paste it below, mainly cuz I don’t want it to disappear into the whirlpool that is my email inbox. Mike, I’ll edit or remove this if you want and won’t feel weird about it. Let me know please.
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For now, that exchange, in order…
Me:
Mike:
Hey Nate,
Me:
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Blog as notebook, up to date again.
Comment by Nate — April 4, 2006 @ 3:27 am
hey John,
That Brinton book’s on the infinite booklist somewhere. Have you seen much of what’s online by Solidarity? I’d love to crossref your collection to the online stuff and maybe beg you for copies. My pal Keir, from the Leeds Mayday crew, his dad was in Solidarity. At one point Keir and some of the other folk in that group were thinking about trying to write something about the history of autonomist type currents in the UK. John, you’re in Ireland, right? You know anything about the groups Revolutionary Struggle or People’s Democracy? RS are the folk who did one of the pamphlets I’ve got here, a special issue of their journal really (pamphlet can sound dismissive, that’s not how I mean it), their journal was Ripening of Time. I found these links on them:
http://www.phoblacht.net/lor1401051g.html
http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2002/msg03846.htm
http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/marxism/2002/msg03868.htm
best,
Nate
Comment by Nate — April 4, 2006 @ 4:00 am
I just had another thought, that this stuff touches upon other stuff that might help bridge the operaist/autonomist currents in my interest in them and the Maoist/thirdworldist interests of Geo and Mark and others to some degree (if one takes a really broad definition, in terms of an internal third world and includes certain nationalist type struggles - a la black power in the US - under a loosely defined Maoism). At a minimum, it puts race into the equation or might start to, via the operaist inspiration by the US black national and black working class movements.
Changing gears a sec, googling on related themes (I think somehow I got onto the League of Revolutionary Black Workers and from there onto this) I found a talk by Glaberman, which includes the following great quote:
“[T]he one thing that I think is an absolute given: workers will resist, because work sucks. Until someone can tell me that work has become real nice under capitalism, whether in the United States or anywhere else, I say that is the fundamental basis of our theory and our practice. Work sucks, and sooner or later workers are going to resist it in whatever way they can. One of the things George Rawick said is, “Unions don’t organize workers. Workers organize unions.” Workers’ self-activity does create organizations create unions and other institutions, which may become bureaucratized and turn against the worker. Unions are not a secret plot designed to fool the workers. Workers organize them and then they get out of control.”
Glaberman’s my guy. Text is here:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/glaberman/1997/xx/workersreality.htm
Comment by Nate — April 4, 2006 @ 4:23 am
and another thing…!
http://www.mnhs.org/localhistory/howto/index.htm
Comment by Nate — April 4, 2006 @ 4:49 am
Hi Nate,
I’ll see what I can dig out, although I have a feeling what I have is back over in England in an attic somewhere.
I don’t know the Irish scene very well at all, not getting here until 93. Of course, I know one or two of the Shinners and I know some of the folk in the Workers Solidarity Movement, who are the only people I’d have any time for here anyway; they’re a Platformist organization with some fairly substantial archives online somewhere or other. Most of the Solidarity stuff I picked up in London in the early 80s.
Comment by John — April 4, 2006 @ 9:41 am
Coming to this thread late as usual. Nate, I have some back issues of Big Flame I can pass along if you’re interested, including some internal bulletins I seem to have inherited from a former member. Plus a single A4 sheet that reprints a letter c1980 from Noel I to BF members - another link in the chain between the US and LC …
Yes, someone needs to interview Ferruccio Gambino about all this. There is some stuff in his interview for Futuro Anteriore - on contact with both Glaberman and Bookchin in the mid 60s.
Comment by Steve — April 8, 2006 @ 11:10 am