We put up on the MIA, MS's "Sacco and Vanzetti, Labor's Martyrs" at http://www.marxists.org/archive/shachtma/1927/saccovanz.pdf This was published by the...
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Philip Ferguson
philipferguson8@...
Aug 2, 2011 10:16 pm
For people interested in Ireland: http://theirishrevolution.wordpress.com/ In the past week I've ut up some more writings by Constance Markievicz, an Irish...
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iancoleangus
Aug 5, 2011 12:09 pm
In the 70s, SWP conferences often featured a large banner that read: "The art of politics is knowing what to do next." -- James P. Cannon Can anyone tell me...
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Louis Proyect
lnp3@...
Aug 5, 2011 12:15 pm
... I suspect it is from "History of American Trotskyism"....
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Wayne Rossi
felianan
Aug 5, 2011 12:23 pm
Yeah, it's from History of American Trotskyism. Don't have it handy but it's perhaps the standout line of the book. ... [Non-text portions of this message...
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Mark A. Lause
m_lause.geo
Aug 5, 2011 12:38 pm
Letters from Prison, p. 179. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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iancoleangus
Aug 5, 2011 2:21 pm
Thank you!...
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Paul Lefrak
ftlpaul
Aug 5, 2011 3:42 pm
When I googled Lenin art of politics is knowing what to do next (because I thought it was a quote that someone, perhaps Cannon, had said about Lenin), this was...
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guarnot
guarnot2
Aug 5, 2011 4:00 pm
I think it's actually "The art of politics consists in knowing what to do next." ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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marian.brain@...
marian.brain...
Aug 6, 2011 3:31 am
(Letter by Anthony Brein to Rachel Horwitz - who is a member of the Socialst Party of England and Wales dealing with his critcism of an SP artcle on Norway....
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marian.brain@...
marian.brain...
Aug 6, 2011 3:36 am
This is the SP article Anthony Brain replied to;- ...
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Tom
tomcod2
Aug 6, 2011 3:38 pm
As with articles in The Militant that make similar assertions that fly in the face of reality, I saw no evidence in this screed for Serbia or the Russian...
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Tom
tomcod2
Aug 6, 2011 3:51 pm
Great Contribution!...
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David
tialsedov
Aug 6, 2011 10:57 pm
Thanks, we're getting more of this stuff up, with a lot of the Communist/Left-SP stuff getting PDFed and places online: Revolutionary Age Workers World Labor...
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Philip Ferguson
philipferguson8@...
Aug 8, 2011 3:22 am
Constance, Countess, Markievicz (1868-1927) was an Irish revolutionary leader of the early 1900s. She was the founder of the first republican paramilitary...
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Tom
tomcod2
Aug 8, 2011 3:42 am
This is something I stumbled onto on the Internet a couple years ago. Steve and Holly (now apparently deceased) were two SWPers in the DC area in the early...
Is that Holly Russell? The one who came to DC at age 15 and got a job as a cocktail waitress? During my brief sojourn in DC, she was living with Cappy Kidd. ...
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Tom
tomcod2
Aug 8, 2011 6:55 am
That's it Tom, we're way in the future now. She left Cappy and took up with Steve Sluchan (who changed his last name to restore it to its pre-Ellis Island...
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Tom
tomcod2
Aug 8, 2011 7:35 am
Yeah those were different days. In my current job, I've got DAs going after guys in similar situations wanting to send them to prison. I'm not making it up....
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Thomas Bias
barrett53
Aug 8, 2011 2:19 pm
Please do. tgbias@.... From: swp_usa@yahoogroups.com [mailto:swp_usa@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Tom Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 2:55 AM To:...
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Louis Proyect
lnp3@...
Aug 9, 2011 11:37 pm
In the July/August issue of Against the Current there is an article by Alan Wald titled “SWP Memories, A Winter’s Tale.” The article purports to be a...
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Mark A. Lause
m_lause.geo
Aug 10, 2011 2:26 am
It's often been observed that the danger of looking back on the experience of former members of an organization like the SWP is most people tend to want to...
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Tom
tomcod2
Aug 10, 2011 3:49 am
I hate to say it, but I agree with the substance of Sheppard's critique here entirely; that was my gut reaction at the time as a naive 18 year old, in fact I...
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Mark A. Lause
m_lause.geo
Aug 10, 2011 12:02 pm
Like Tom, I did not support FAPO, but the real "insulting mockery" here is the repeated misrerpesentation of what members of the SWP were trying to say. I...
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Tom
tomcod2
Aug 10, 2011 3:45 pm
Sure, it's ironic that the SWP adopted the FAPO policy, but to its credit that was in the 1980s, not the early 70s when Vietnam and the student movement were...
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Tom
tomcod2
Aug 10, 2011 4:02 pm
and if my recollection of this is a misrepresentation, then its an honest one as that is how I distinctly recall the attitude and tone of FAPOs, being in...
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Arthur Maglin
artmaglin
Aug 11, 2011 12:11 am
Louis, what is the name of your book and how can I purchase a copy? I looked around on Amazon and Bookfinder and couldn't come up with anything. Arthur...
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Philip Ferguson
philipferguson8@...
Aug 11, 2011 3:07 am
... I think that's the vital point. I was a supporter of the later turn and worked in factories after I had left as well. I didn't return to university, to do...
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Tom
tomcod2
Aug 11, 2011 5:41 am
Yes and I remember when the coup occurred in Chile, Sheppard was doing a tour of the branches on what? . . . . the "crisis" in the Fourth International...
