Re: ISO in Zimbabwe

[Philip Ferguson <plf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I read the interview with the Zimbabwe ISOer with interest.  If, as the ISO
comrade points out, the MDC is basically a party of business and middle
class interests, isn't the ISO involvement in it a very blatant case of,
er, popular frontism?  The ISO MP even says of the MDC,

>Yes, the MDC is in alliance with international capital



Coming from a tendency which used to denounce pretty much all standing in
elections as 'opportunist' - certainly this was the British SWP position,
although it was a left cover for their auto-Labourism - this seems like a
major, major political turn.  What next - American ISO entry into the
Democratic Party; British SWP re-entry into Labour?  If it is OK to be in a
bourgeois political formation which "is in alliance with international
capital", it is rather difficult to see how the same political tendency
could justify not being in similar parties in other countries.


Philip Ferguson