Re: Where, oh where has the SWP gone?

[L.WILLMS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Luko Willms)]

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JRF>> Does anyone have a notioon of what's happening inside the US SWP, as
JRF>> of late?

   Have a look at http://www.themilitant.com

JRF>>
JRF>> I stopped by the Pathfinder bookshop on 23rd St. in San Francisco
JRF>> today and found it shut, the place for rent, and no redirect sign fo
JRF>> customers.

   The current address is
   3926 Mission Street
   San Francisco, CA 94112
   Tel. +1-415-5842135
   e-mail: 75604.556@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


JRF>>
JRF>> The party has of course been retreat for ages, like all the marxist
JRF>> left in the US.  I wonder is there any connection?
LP>
LP> The latest Militant reported that there were 140 ex-members at the
LP> national gathering on the Oberlin college campus, most of whom they
LP> are trying to organize into digitizing brigades to convert all of the
LP> Pathfinder tables. Since the total attendance was 450 by their own
LP> admission, and since we can assume about 50 people were there from
LP> other countries just to make contact with the mother ship, doing the
LP> arithmetic yields a rather modest attendance of 250 party members.
LP> There was a time when these gatherings would draw a thousand members
LP> and 3 to 4 hundred sympathizers.

   At the Oberlin gatherings which I attended, I noted that the total
SWP membership were always about the number of attendees, i.e. a
number could not attend, which was filled up with other participants,
international, sympathizers, contacts etc. If that rule is still in
force, the SWP would have 450 members.

LP> I think there are more people on this mailing list than in the SWP.
LP> Plus we have more fun.

   At my latest check there were about 180 people on this mailing
list. That is less, not more.


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