Re: Norma Barzman

["Erik Toren" <ectoren@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hola Louis:

He was my history professor in the '90's at the University of Texas-Pan
American. We both organized a socialist student organization under
Solidarity. He gave  me the basics of campus organizing. Poor John he always
misssed the cool weather of France and NY while living here in the hot beach
weather of the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Also, stood like a green thumb
looking a Parisian professor in the land of Norteño music and farmworkers. I
believe he might active or semi-active in the LRC, but who knows. I have met
other Soli cdes. who knew him in his younger years. It IS a small world
indeed!!

>he was a die-hard Mandelista

For good or bad, I did get a chance to copy the E. Mandel's pamphlets.

Thanks Louis!

por el socialismo,
Erik Carlos Torén

----- Original Message -----
From: "Louis Proyect" <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>

> The very same. John is now a professor and seems uninterested in his
> Trotskyist past. When I knew him in the Boston and Houston branches in
> the early 1970s, he was a die-hard Mandelista and workerist. The first
> influence came from growing up in France. The second from being tutored
> by Larry Trainor, the elderly organizer of the Boston branch who was
> suspicious of the student movement. When I arrived up in Boston in early
> 1970 to help "smash" the workerist opposition, John and other young
> comrades were tail-ending the PLP/SDS'ers in the hospital union, who
> were led by Jared Israel, and ignoring the antiwar movement. It's a
> small world, isn't it.
>