LETTER: US election set to spawn a cultural crisis
The Democrats have signed a Faustian pact with the new red bogeymen Wobblies
27 October 2020 - 17:07
Bubbling in the background of the upcoming US presidential election are issues far greater than a visceral dislike of Donald Trump. The Wobblies are back.
In the 1880s, after a period of unrestrained capitalism interspersed with financial crashes, socialist and anarchist worker groupings under the banner of the Industrial Workers of the World (the Wobblies) went on strike for an eight-hour workday. Business fought back using the immigration, and latterly, sedition acts to deport undesirable foreigners, and by making socialist thought anathema to God-fearing America...
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