[Ssf] swp:local social forums have failed

[dave thompson]

Hello, There is a busy new discussion on urban75 (you
have to register to view)but it's about the swp
attacking social forums in their post conference
bulletin and claiming they have failed in the uk. i
know we shouldnt worry/care about what they say, but
it does show they were/are rattled.They also seem to
have noticed that STW has been reduced to a rump of
party members and their brand, respect is not doing
much better. imo, the only group that is growing in
the squating/radioacl anti-capitalist networks, which
generally do not focus on bread and butterissues, just
thesexy ones, hence one reason for the low turn outs
for our meetings......

dt

'Britain is an old imperialist country. Britain's
current Prime Minister has turned it into the second
most important imperialist country by virtue of his
strategic support for US imperialism's renewed global
ambition.
For these reasons, and because of the presence of
revolutionary socialists in the leadership of the Stop
the War Coalition, the anti-war movement has coem 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 the 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.(my emphasis)'

http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=97899


bulletin here
http://www.swp.org.uk/RESOURCE/Conference2004.pdf

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