Re: CPUSA & PWW sub address

[Chris Johnson <cj@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 12 Mar 1995, bill E shakalis wrote:

>   Just a small correction here, FYI:  'THE Militant' is the Socialist
> WORKER's Party newspaper, not the SLP's. The Socialist Labor Party puts
> out the 'The People'; the Socialist Party USA (whose lineal heritage is
> the Socialist Party of Debs and Thomas, reorganized in 1973) publishes 'The
> Socialist'... and then there are the many other publications of other
> Left political groups/parties...
>
>     Need a scorecard to keep track, much like a marathon with 20,000
> runners... unfortunately, that is the state of the American Left...

Very true.  Another fun factoid about this list of parties is that they
all derive directly or indirectly from one another.  The SPUSA broke from
the SLP, the CP broke from the SPUSA, and the SWP broke from the CP!
Another somewhat sad fact about the Left.

Chris Johnson                                                cj@xxxxxxxxx
        [cjohnson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx will still work for awhile.]
"There was much in this that I did not understand, in some ways I did not
even like it, but I recognized it immediately as a state of affairs worth
fighting for." - George Orwell



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