After Silber was kicked out of the group he led: Line of March, for his sexism and homophobia, I met him during a book tour in 2003 for his 236 page paperback book that he wrote: Press Box Red, that was on Lester Rodney, the first sportswriter of the Daily Worker and Rodney's efforts that began the committee and activism to end the Major League Baseball Color Ban. I was fortunate to have met Lester Rodney on that book tour, which he gladly autographed the book and I shared showing him the very scarce pinback button from my collection, that his small successful activist group he formed had issued in 1942: "Score Against Hitler Lift the Color Ban". The book is a favorite of mine since I have been a lifelong baseball fan.
Rodney quit the CPUSA in 1958, I never asked Silber to autograph his book, preferring Rodney who was not as homophobic as Silber. I do have Sing Out publications that Silber was a co-founder and central editor in publishing 1951-1967. It continued publishing until 2014. Sing Out Music continues as a weekly syndicated radio show program. ________________________________ The comments on Irwin Silber gave us lots of heat, but very little light. I am guessing that the heat comes from a fight at The Guardian (US). ken h Factional disagreements led to a split within the Guardian staff, and Silber left the newspaper in 1979, moving to California to join the leadership of a current within US Marxism known as the "rectification movement" and he affiliated with the Line of March<https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FLine_of_March&data=02%7C01%7C%7C88d9325bf97949a29c3608d869acb6bd%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637375537801100713&sdata=DkuDweIo4dK4d3keCJYryWFqV0ZRBlPDIP2n1UDD5is%3D&reserved=0>. _._,_._,_ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#2268): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/2268 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/77325238/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
