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Title: Bruce Augustyniak (Bruce Kala) Author: Chris Hobson Date: November 5, 2002 Language: en Topics: obituary Source: Retrieved on 7th May 2021 from http://utopianmag.com/archives/tag-The%20Utopian%20Vol.%203%20-%202002/bruce-augustyniak-bruce-kala/ Notes: Published in The Utopian Vol. 3.
Bruce Augustyniak, also known as Bruce Kala, died in Chicago on
September 6, 2002. Bruce was a longtime socialist and anarchist who was
trained as a scientist and gave up what presumably would have been a
lucrative career to be a revolutionary. He devoted his whole adult life
to this work, as a member of the International Socialists from 1970 to
1973, the Revolutionary Socialist League from 1973 until 1989, and the
Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation from 1989 to 1998.
During the 1970s and 1980s he worked in the U.S. Post Office in Chicago,
in other industries in Los Angeles, and as a teacher in New York,and
helped produce the RSL’s newspaper, The Torch/La Antorcha, and a book,
Trotskyism and the Dilemma of Socialism, by Ronald D. Tabor and
Christopher Z. Hobson (1988). In later years Bruce was active in several
anarchist groups in the San Francisco area; he was known for his extreme
militancy and bravery at anti-Klan/anti-Nazi demonstrations. Most
recently he worked in Chicago, his hometown, as an organizer for the
Service Employees’ International Union until this summer. He was living
with his brother when he died unexpectedly.
Bruce was not only an opponent of authoritarian society but, to some
extent, its victim. He had a hard life, struggling against drugs and
enduring the unsettled existence of an activist who lacked long-term
steady work, family, and community involvements. Now that he has passed,
we honor and remember his achievements in the struggle for a new
society.