tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post218668161597817357..comments2024-03-29T09:14:53.583+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: Sectarians With Placards?Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-56146365574697696422007-12-14T23:50:00.000+00:002007-12-14T23:50:00.000+00:00In retrospect, this is the best analysis of the sp...In retrospect, this is the best analysis of the split I've read. What's an independent socialist to do? I've not been impressed by the behaviour of the SWP CC, but also I'm well aware that Socialist Unity et al have simply shelved their criticisms of Galloway and his supporters in order to attack the SWP.<BR/><BR/>Ultimately, a broad left party will not be viable until the majority of the membership are independent of any pre-existing revolutionary party. Then rows will be resolved with out destroying the party. During the eighties the Labour party suffered splits to the right (Social Democrats) and left (the Militants) but nevertheless it survived, because such factions only ever made up a small minority of the membership.<BR/><BR/>There is a huge potential in the amount of people who have left the Labour party in disgust during the last few years. The challenge is getting an electoral party from the state of being the baby of one or more revolutionary parties to the state of being a mass membership democratic organisation before it implodes in a faction fight.<BR/><BR/>Respect-SWP clearly will not become a mass membership party. Respect Renewal has more potential, but it's all far from satisfactory. Ho hum.Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12769996235446036041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-61867038334356970542007-10-21T20:17:00.000+01:002007-10-21T20:17:00.000+01:00What I noticed in the advert for the Socialist Par...What I noticed in the advert for the Socialist Party's event is the absence of the CNWP. This is odd when the creation of a new party is both possible and necessary. I think it would also benefit from the active participation of the SP. As well as the CPB, Labour lefts etc.<BR/><BR/>It is a completely open game inside Respect at the minute though it does look like the SWP leadership wants to smash up the project. <BR/>Two years ago the SWP and GG ganged up to smash up the very proposals that both of them have supported in recent weeks. The one big conclusion from all this is that when a revolutionary current decides to participate in even a small mass formation it must resist the temptation to dominate it and must show a committment to a pluralist socialist democracyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-61311176554422769192007-10-17T13:10:00.000+01:002007-10-17T13:10:00.000+01:00Yes, they haven't exactly built trust. Interesting...Yes, they haven't exactly built trust. Interesting to see the reverse Midas touch in action. <BR/><BR/>Is this classic bureaucratic centralism?Madam Miaowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10237951918529887305noreply@blogger.com