[g8-sheffield] Why SWP undermined social forums?

[Dan]

Hey up,

Just got forwarded this little snippet from the Conference proceedings 
of 2004 SWP annual conference. As usual, I really can't quite believe 
anyone would be so stupid. Sectarian? Oh yeah - we're sectarian if we 
don't do what the SWP thinks is right - I forget. Bloody hell - I try to 
get over it and just chill out, then I read something like this! AAAUGH!

“Because of the presence revolutionary socialists in the leadership of 
the Stop the War Coalition, the anti-war movement has come to occupy the 
radical space occupied in France by ATTAC or in Italy by the social 
forums and, later, the anti-war movement.

"This is why attempts by the sectarian left to supplant the Stop the War 
Coalition by social forums have failed and deserve to fail. Such 
attempts, portrayed as a programmatic shift to left (because social 
forums raise issues of economic exploitation as well as war), would in 
practice be a move to the right because they undermine the attempt to 
break the Blair government over the issue on which it is most vulnerable.”

http://www.swp.org.uk/resources/Conference2004.pdf

Dan