File spoon-archives/aut-op-sy.archive/aut-op-sy_1997/aut-op-sy.9708, message 159


From: "FRANCO BARCHIESI" <029FRB-AT-cosmos.wits.ac.za>
Date:          Tue, 26 Aug 1997 19:34:55 GMT + 2:00
Subject:       Re: AUT: Re: Comment on Franco's"RESULTS OF REPORT-BACK MEE


Chris,

> just one thing -- many people in the "One Big Union" (IWW) like myself do
> not emphasize and in fact actively struggle to change the "vanguardist"
> flavour of the One Big Union, but since the OBU and IWW are so
> intertwinded, I wanted to let you know in case you also dismiss the IWW as
> "vanguardist" (which I hope you know we are definately not!).

Yes, you are right. But, as I wrote, my message was originally 
intended for a South African public, and it was in particular 
addressed also in reply to a particular group here in Jo'burg and 
"their" notion of industrial unionism that is quite different, *I 
think*, from yours and from the wobblies' tradition and *practice* 
as OBU, for which I have the highest respect and admiration. I 
apologize for any misunderstanding.

Franco

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University of the Witwatersrand
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