Fwd: RE: [Marxism] 1983 open letter from SA to the SWP

[paul bunyan <cutemdown2003@xxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Lause <MLause@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Subject: RE: [Marxism] 1983 open letter from SA to the SWP
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:54:37 -0500


>By 1978, I left with the hope of establishing some loose regroupment
>formation(s) that might save some of the cadres I knew the SWP was going
>to hemorrhage. After some work with a local collective and in the ISO,
>I decided that there was little one person could do on this. Therefore,
>I well recall this break.

>I am at a loss, though, to understand why all of the Socialist Action
>people did not participate in the formation of Solidarity, which I
>viewed and view as the best option available on the Left.

Best,
Mark L.

I had discussions with SA members on the question of left regroupment, in 1983. 
They were oppossed to it. Their position was that a "return to the SWP of the 
sixties" was the cure-all for what ailed the left. Anyone who disagreed with 
this was written of as a "sectarian". The split from SWP going off in three 
different directions didn't help matters. I heard that when the Fourth 
International Tendency (FIT) went into Solidarity, rather then as a fusion, FIT 
members had to apply individually for membership into Solidarity. If this is 
true, and I emphasize "if", this humiliation of FIT members does not speak well 
of Solidarity.


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