reply to Alan: was On Melbourne & S11 - a discussion??

["Tom O'Lincoln" <red_sites@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Oh, and the fact that I took your first comment as a bit of a joke, and
>hopefully that you took the (discreet obscene gestures) as one too is
>actually a step forward.

My first comment was entirely a joke, and I never worry about obscene
gestures as long as they're discreet.


>I would like to remind you of
>the title of "Green Left Weekly"

Yes, but a step of real movement is worth a hundred correct programs.


>are you in the ISO at the moment

Yes, have been all this time. Perhaps I should conclude my earlier potted
history in a few lines:

In the 1985 split we set up a group called Socialist Action. In the late
eighties the I.S. engaged in a major public self-criticism of its earlier
sectarianism (which Gary mentioned). We then re-united the two groups. Then
of course -- this being the left -- there was another split, leading to the
formation of Socialist Alternative. Interestingly, the second split was
across totally differently fault lines. I remain on personally friendly
terms with both sides, which only shows what wimp liberal I've become!








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