Re: [Marxism] why Chicago?

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew Pollack wrote:
>
> First, Chicago had the huge immigrant workers' rights
> march. Now, Chicago seems to have done the best among
> US cities in yesterday's antiwar protests (7,000 as
> reported  by CNN, which featured the city prominently;
> although unfortumately all US protests were
> embarrassingly small compared to many overseas).
> Chicagoans: how did you do it?

I suggest the two events (immigrant workers' march, anti-war march) are
intimately related. As I've argued before, an anti-war movement will
never be much of an anti-war movement unless it occurs in a context of
much wider social disruption and activity. The speakers at the Chicago
demo, I understand, included a number of the organizers of the immigrant
rights march. A variety of "movement type" activities play off each
other -- augment each other. At our small (100+) demo here in
Bloomington, Illinois one woman I talked to had not heard about the
immigrants' march, and she visibly brightened when I told her about it.
That is, I intensified a bit her link to our local anti-war work simply
by briefly mentioned the existence of such militancy and variety as the
earlier Chicago demo.

Carrol

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