Ah yes, keith, you're quite right. It was Brian Heron in Fisc, not Brian Lyons. Phil ________________________________ From: swp_usa@yahoogroups.com...
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Philip Ferguson
philip.ferguson@...
Jan 2, 2007 9:52 pm
... members in the CL at it's founding was just over a hundred.-- So there's been about an 85 percent membership loss in the 18 or so years since the CL was...
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Philip Ferguson
philip.ferguson@...
Jan 2, 2007 10:38 pm
NEW YORK CITY - SATURDAY, JANUARY 27 Imperialism's Spreading Wars and Financial Disorder in Face of Irreversible Strengthening of U.S. Working Class. Organised...
... This thing features--surprise, surprise--Jack and Mary-Alice as the 2 main speakers. Going back 10 or 15 years, this has been the rule. I imagine that...
- In _swp_usa@yahoogroupsswp__ (mailto:swp_usa@yahoogroups.com) , Philip Ferguson <philip.ferguson@phi> ... There just happens to be a march against an...
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Philip Ferguson
philip.ferguson@...
Jan 7, 2007 3:01 am
Yes, I noticed that too. I wonder just how many times the poor old remaining members are expected to listen to this pair drone on the latest long-winded...
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Philip Ferguson
philip.ferguson@...
Jan 7, 2007 5:19 am
And lest British cult members feel left out, they can enjoy the Barnes-Waters double act in a meeting on January 13 in London to commemorate the mindless...
A great victory for the workers after nearly 20 years of struggle! Confused? See the latest Militant. Its time for all of us to eat crow and rejoin!...
looking over the last few issues of the militant it occured to me that there is not enough being written/printed to account for a full time position. Martin...
I'll admit that like most people on this list, I take a perverse pleasure in checking in on The Militant website every Friday evening just to get aggravated....
Given the size of the party, I don't see how its belated endorsement of the demonstration in the MILITANT could be more than lip service. I mean, are they...
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Philip Ferguson
philip.ferguson@...
Jan 15, 2007 3:18 am
Well, I guess the entire YS these days could fit into a lift. I'm indifferent to their "endorsement" of the demo. No-one will know they have endorsed it and...
At the almost 1,000 strong demo for the ferry boat workers yesterday (use of non-union crews for the important Alcatraz tourist run) SWPers were there, even...
... Of course it is. But it's like a curio, which is why you and I are both on this list, to follow it, discuss what it did why were were in it, and where...
Jack and Mary-Alice are the only 2 theoreticians left, are they not??? I mean, who else has line articles in The Militant and New International??? Go to...
Throughout my tenure in the SWP I was always inclined to suppress or deny any personal ambition to become a `leader' or hold a prestigious assignment. Not...
... Interesting post. My own view is that the leadership of a genuine revolutionary party will have established itself before the party is actually launched....
Dear Robert, As I recall, the branch membership would nominate people to be on the executive committee and then vote on the nominees. The new executive...
Bonnie Weinstein wrote, "As I recall, the branch membership would nominate people to be on the executive committee and then vote on the nominees. The new...
I've never understood why we think that someone who can organize a party branch of 30 can actually do the same with a party of 3,000. And I suspect that the...
Mark--I'm talking about the SWP pre-Barnes! Not the facsimile you joined. I'm talking before 1972 or 3 and before. When were you in the party? Comradely, ...
I was an SDS refugee, so considerably post-Barnes, but before 1972 or 3. It's possible that, if these were that innovative, as you suggest, they hit unevenly,...
... Here is what is common about all of the above organizations with the exception of the FMLN which never did come to power: 1. Bolshies: Formed 1903, came to...
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Philip Ferguson
philip.ferguson@...
Jan 21, 2007 2:21 am
I think a problem in SWP-type organisations, and certainly one evident in the SAL in NZ (which inherited the US SWP model) was that having "committees" decide...
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Philip Ferguson
philip.ferguson@...
Jan 21, 2007 2:48 am
... from preexisting mass radical movements, particularly the IWW and the Socialist Party. And Debs and other socialists had been wrapped up in various mass ...
... God, does this bring ghastly memories. Not only did you have to deal with slates that were hand-picked from above, you had to put up with these idiotic...
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Philip Ferguson
philip.ferguson@...
Jan 21, 2007 4:21 am
... I was doing in a group that ran counter to all the anti-authoritarian impulses that had brought me into the Trotskyist movement to begin with. I think...
