I knew Stan Weir at the time he and the anti-Bridges idiots did their
best to undermine the most anti-racist labor union in existence, then
and now, the Longshoremen. No, I was never a longshoreman, although my
late son-in-law was, and his son, my grandson, is. This has nothing to
do with Weir's courage in opposing the existing socio-economic system.
William Mandel
radtimes wrote:
>
> Gabe Gabrielsky <scottshuster@msn.com> sent the following to H-LABOR:
>
> Stan first gained public notoriety in the 1960's as a leader of
> the "B" men in the ILWU for full union citizenship and an activist in the
> struggle against containerization. Support for his struggle was taken up
> by leading anti-Bridges intellectuals on the East Coast including Norman
> Thomas, Michael Harrington, Bayard Rustin, Harvey Swados and James
> Baldwin.
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Do you teach in the social sciences? Consider my SAYING NO TO POWER
(Creative Arts, Berkeley, 1999), for course use. It was written as a
social history of the U.S. for the past three-quarters of a century
through the eyes of a participant observer in most progressive social
movements (I'm 84), and of the USSR from the
standpoint of a Sovietologist (five earlier books) knowing that country
longer than any other in the profession. Therefore it is also a history
of the Cold War. Positive reviews in The Black Scholar, American
Studies in Scandinavia, San Francisco Chronicle, forthcoming in Tikkun,
etc. Chapters are up at http://www.billmandel.net
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