Welcome to the american Rifondazione

[Mauro junior <mauro.jr@xxxxxx>]

At 08.21 07/12/95 -0500, Louis wrote:

>I am a member of the CofC. It is not a "vanguardist" formation. Most
>people, including myself, see it as a transitional step.
>
>The Committees of Correspondence emerged out of a split
>in the CPUSA. The faction that sided with long-time party
>boss Gus Hall was uncomfortable with perestroika and
>glasnost. The faction opposed to him embraced these
>changes. In addition, they thought that the CPUSA was
>long overdue for its own version of glasnost.
>
>When Red Army officers launched a coup against
>Gorbachev, the two factions took opposing positions on the
>move and the group split shortly afterwards.
>
>The co-chairs of Committees of Correspondence are
>Manning Marable, the head of the African-American studies
>department at Columbia University and Charlene Mitchell,
>who was the CPUSA presidential candidate in 1968.
>
>This is an excerpt from "For a Democratic
>and Socialist Future", the basic programmatic statement of
>the Committees of Correspondence:
>
>"Our fundamental priority must be to become a practical
>and powerful force within national political discourse and
>public policy debates. To achieve this will require a greater
>social vision and political tolerance for all currents and
>organizational formations within the left. It means
>transcending ideological debates and conflicts of the past,
>recognizing the urgent necessity to build broadly-based
>unity.
>
>We believe the immediate possiblities for the left are better
>than its immediate past. The vast majority of people with
>left and socialist convictions do not belong to any group
>which expresses their political views. Many, especially
>younger people, have been active and developed their
>radical, anti-capitalist and socialist views in various social
>movements. The left is the natural political home for such
>people.
>
>And among some left organizations there is a welcome
>tendency to brush aside old barriers, to develop constructive
>dialog on strategic issues and to seek agreement on action.
>We believe the time is ripe for concrete initiatives to bring
>together such forces, based on the best left traditions of
>solidarity and mutual respect."

Mauro jr:
I take the liberty to write on behalf of Rifondazione comunista (Italy).
"Welcome to this american friends"

Cheers
Mauro Junior
Tel  (-39)02/35.51.275 fax (-39)02/33.200.101



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