Everyone's always talking about PSL, SRA, DSA, RR, CPUSA, and I'm just over here like "I just wanna grill for god sake!"

There's a million little random leftist organizations with slightly different goals and ideologies, but which one should someone looking to, in the words of Father Matt, 'log the fuck off' go to? Which ones are crank warehouses? Which are honeypots? Which are full of libs?

Bitch and complain about your least favorite orgs and shill for your favorites here. Reply to others telling them that their org is full of libs and FBI agents. Etc.

EDIT: also anyone with a specific recommendation in the Quad Cities area in Iowa/Illinois definitely drop me a line

  • OptimusPrimeRib [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Is anyone in the IWW ? Have they been active recently or is it still a book club coasting off of the success of 100 year old dead organizers?

    • EvilCorgi [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      I'm not in it but from all the information I've gathered, it's the second one still

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      I'm an at-large wob since the branch in my (quite large) city dried up after passing underneath some kind of minimum membership threshold. I pay dues every month out of begrudging respect for what they used to be. All they do is send me emails every now and then and a stamp in the mail each month.

      I guess they're a mixed bag. I've never met another wob in person, despite trying to get in touch with some of the locals. Someone on the facebook page said they'd get me in touch with some people with the General Defense Committee, but that was 3 years ago and I never heard back.

    • BigPoopPalls [any]
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      4 years ago

      I'm a wob. Locally we're actually doing some pretty cool stuff. The branch was mostly a book club up until a couple years ago when membership rose sharply. It became an org for people in other orgs, we have actually done some amount of real impactful hot shop organizing.

      Other local branches do really good stuff near me. PDX IWW has done a lot of really good work, they've had a lot of victories, actually stood up to a real corporate boss and established a union at a burger chain.

      The headquarters is nothing but larpers. It's parlamentary style gridlock all the time, they're truly just coasting off a bunch of dead heroes and sitting on your dues money and doing fuck all with it. My roommate was a convention delegate this year and there was a lot of really behavior from people who thought they were too radical to do anything useful for the org.