Not sure how many folks here were around back then (syndicalist and syndicalistcat?) but I'm curious about whether the paths of anarchists and communists crossed those of the International Workers Party, the Provisional Communist Party and its fronts, Larouchites, etc.
This is prompted by noticing that a paper by "Capitalist Crisis Studies" was supposedly presented at a Nationwide Unemployed League conference, which was... startling. (Two kinds of nuts I didn't think mixed?) But one of you was talking about there having been a minority libertarian tendency in the early days of the NAM so maybe this was something similar?
I know the PCP/NATLFED groups, if you ignore the Stalinist brainwashing and fucked-up social-work paradigm, typically aimed to establish mutual aid networks among marginalized sectors of the class. (They still do this...) Similarly Newman had Centers for Change before joining the NCLC which ran, according to Wikipedia, the National Unemployed and Welfare Rights Organization. Did these kinds of organizations have a presence on the ground? Were their motivations and direction they were headed obvious? And are there other similar groups and personalities I might also be entertained to hear described?
