Re: What's in the latest Green Left Weekly? #492 May 15, 2002

["Alan Bradley" <abradley1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Louis Proyect
> Stop being so disingenuous. People who write for the GLW don't sit down at
> their computer and say to themselves, "Hmmm. What is going on France?
> Maybe I'll take a look at misc.activism.progressive to see what other
> radicals are thinking." In the unlikely event that he was persuaded of the
> LO line, the article would not be printed.

What actually happens is that GLW writers say, "who do I/we know in France?
What are they saying?"  If what "they" are saying seems to make sense,
that's the basis of the article.  Lazy, perhaps, but generally more
effective than sucking a line out of your thumb.  "They" in this case, are
the LCR, of course.  In Indonesia "they" would be the PRD, and so on.

If what "they" are saying doesn't make sense, things become a little more
difficult, but criticising the LCR is no big deal.  They might even respond.

In the case of Dick Nichols - he has had an association with various LCR
members for a good thirty years or so.  What he writes will tend to reflect
that.

> If in the unlikely event that some rank-and-file DSP'er lurking on
> Marxmail decided that it was bullocks to support UN troops in East Timor,
> and made that argument in pre-convention discussion, you'd get a whole
> slew of Percy's lieutenants getting up one-by-one to answer the poor
> benighted soul.

Well, I should hope so, since they voted to support UN troops.  I'd be more
worried if they didn't defend their actions.

And you still haven't addressed the question of the PCF and PCI.  The CPUSA
never really got beyond sect status, but they did.

Alan Bradley
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