Ira Wechsler:
CLASS OF 1967
Mepham High SchoolClass of 1967
Bellmore, NY
SUNY at Stony BrookClass of 1971
Stony brook, NY
Ira's Story
Life
I have been a very busy fellow since graduating Stony Brook, a year late in 1972. I have settled down in Brooklyn have a lovely wife, Yvonne, and a handsome son, Adam. I devoted 20 years of my life to the movement but, I have slowed down and started to appreciate the good things in life. I still have my views and issues that I will act on, but I refuse to self-destruct.
I wish to amend the previous paragraph. I am a union delegate in Local 1199 SEIU at Woodhull Hospital in Brooklyn. I am quite angered over the imperialist oil war in Iraq and the overt racism of the US response to Katrina victims . I see electoral politics as a farce and ponsey game to cover up big capital's
stranglehold on power. I have NOT mellowed. I am older ,yes and wiser, yes. But my heart and soul were in the right place when we rifled through the administration files on war research, when we chased IBM, military recruiters, and Dow Chemical off the Stony Brook campus, when we seized the computer center in 1970, and when we fought the Suffolk County cops against their attack on the student movement. Also we started the anti-racist movement on campus when we demonstrated in H quad cafeteria after they
had fired Leroy Sills, a black cafeteria worker. I have NO Regrets, other than wishing I had known what I know now in interpersonal relations. I would have been far more effe...Expand for more
ctive in building the movement and recruiting students committed to proletarian revolution. On my current job I organized a petition campaign with the help of co-workers that stopped the racist firing of one of my fellow ultrasonographers. But the harassment continued and eventually she left a couple of years later.All reform movements are limited as the capitalist class has the cops, the courts, and the power to negate any
reform we win. That is why building
a mass movement to fight for worker's power and smash the capitalist state is essential. Only an egalitarian society without money and where all the wealth our class produces is distributed internationally for only our benefit.
We need to rebuild the working class movement here and internationally. I see some small but significant signs that give reason for optimism. Hopefully before I pass we will see the rising of the mighty working class with communist leadership marching to its ultimate goal of wiping capitalism and its ugly children of war and racism from the face of the Earth.
I lost my older brother,Drew in June, 2004 after a 2 year battle with cholangiocarcinoma, a rare and very fatal cancer.
I remember so many of my friends from Stony Brook and would love to hear from any and all of
you. If you wish to contact me send an email to this web site and we will find a way to get in touch.
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