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
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. It's a lot of fun, we're trying to make a lot of stuff happen and there's never any lib shit.
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 any non symbolic organizing.
So yeah, your milage may vary. CHI and SEA are kind of up their own asses, fuck those guys.
What the fuck are you talking about? GHQ has two people, FW Cameron and whoever it is FW Travis hired to run the Lit Department after the last person got canned. Both do their jobs admirably, and FW Cam even helps with organizing campaigns, doing one-on-ones and stuff. He doesn't need to. FW Travis didn't do much organizing when he was GST. Furthermore, check the budget in the GOB. GHQ distributes funds as they are supposed to, it's then up to the various subcommittees to actually use that money (as an example the ODB is using their funding to focus heavily on their branch development program), please actually look at the budget, GHQ retains a fraction of the dues money. If you feel like your campaign needs more money put in a request for funds. Hell, they'll even give you a per diem if you're doing actual union business.
Yeah, convention was a shitshow this year. It's usually a lot better. I'm personally thankful I abstained from serving as a convention delegate this year. I blame the fact that his year we couldn't all get together and drink vast quantities of homemade hooch :p.
Edit: I'd like to ask what issues you have with the Greater Chicago GMB and the Seattle GMB? Because just writing them off entirely is writing off 1/6th of NARA branch members. That doesn't strike me as fair. If you have issues with individuals within these branches you should take it up with the individuals and not the branches.