Re: Committees of Correspondence

[Gary MacLennan <g.maclennan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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>      National CoC Endorses Building Left Alliance of Organizations
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>At its Second Bi-Annual National Convention during July 12-14th, the
>national membership of the Committees of Correspondence endorsed a
>resolution calling for building an ongoing left alliance of democratic
>socialist and left organizations.  The Committees of Correspondence is a
>democratic socialist organization with 1500 members (defined as renewing
>their membership dues within 1995-96) across the country with national
>leaders including activists, unionists and scholars including Pete Seeger,
>Angela Davis and Manning Marable. Roughly 140 delegates attended this
>national convention.  The final weighted vote on the resolution was 467 to
>330 votes (elected delegates had eight votes while individual members
>attending on their own had one vote).
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Lou,

Why was the vote so close?  What are the politics of all this?

regards

Gary



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