[g8-sheffield] Re: [ssf] Why SWP undermined social forums?

[Chris Malins]

Lets focus on breaking the Blair government, that way if we're really 
lucky we'll get the Tories back in. Any attempt to have an intelligent 
political dialogue which could suggest a solution other than oscillatory 
two party politics is a swing to the right. Love the SWP.

Dan wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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