Re: [Marxism] An exchange with Bill Onasch on the Million Worker March

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Fred Feldman wrote:
> I tried to avoid any appearance of red-baiting in my public article on
> MWM. But everyone on this list, and any other lists these comments may
> be circulated on, should be clear that MWM was not some spontaneous
> action arising from people of color in the labor movement. It was
> initiated, and tightly controlled, by two principal strange bed
> fellows--the Lambertist Socialist Organizer and the Marcyite Workers
> World.

Well, I don't know if it is redbaiting or not, but in all candor I am
not surprised that the American Lambertistes were involved with this.
About 6 years ago, there was stuff all over the Internet about a front
organization that they had set up called "Open World Conference of
Workers". It is still around, if this website is any indication:
http://www.owcinfo.org/.

Mostly, the OWC tried to make a big splash around conferences rather
than demonstrations. They would solicit the support of some high-profile
leftish trade union officials, but there never seemed to be any real
impetus from the ranks other than from the Lambertistes, who were mostly
ex-SWP'ers who had never really figured out what was wrong with this
approach.

I had a stronger sense that the WWP was involved, needless to say.


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