Remembering the Wobblies

The Wobblies (IWW) stand for modern American radicals as a mythic memory of a virtuous past. There are those of the New Left (perhaps a majority) who do not even remember their informal name, but remember or not, they employ much the same rhetoric. Among older radicals the IWW is that revolutionary movement which existed prior to the failures and imported ideologies characterizing the American radical scene after the Russian Revolution. We call up images of Joe Hill, Leadville, and the dark m...