Re: Self Determination- Support It!

[aabdo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Tony Abdo)]

Jose attributes to me the following sentiment-
<Fuck the Miskitus, fuck the Timorese, fuck whoever won't subordinate
THEIR rights to those of the "larger" struggle.>

Not at all my belief, Comrade Jose.     You come out of a group that
said ....Fuck the World, we're building the Left in the American trade
union movement.     We're going to talk 'class' issues from now on out.

I know a little bit about the baggage that goes along with where you
formed your beliefs on 'the National Question'.      A Trotskyist
movement in the '60s and early '70s that build a solidarity movement in
support of the self determination of SE Asia didn't get bogged down on
supporting the Hmong, or other national groups struggling alongside the
CIA in that area.

Present day Trots would be the biggest promoters outside the CIA, for
building a US support committee for the Hmong.      What has changed?
It was the Fuck the World attitude that the US Trotskyists slid off
into, when they lost international class perspective, and only began to
concentrate on their own national working class.

And as they did so, their previous contribution of building a movement
against the US military, became nothing more than a cheering squad
battalion alongside the favorite national flavor of the month.

I'm for building an antiwar movement, and that's a movement to support
all struggles for national self determination against US aggression in
the world.      You've twisted that into somehow being the opposite.
It's sad to see you so lost.

For the final word, I support the right of Albanian Kosovars,  Miskitus
in Nicaragua, and Aceh and East Timorese in Indonesia to be free of
oppression inside their regions.     I just don't support the US or
Australian capitalist armies in being the method that 'national
liberation' is achieved.     Is that hard for you to understand?

Tony Abdo