[Marxism] Forwarded from Greg Adler

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

I stand by what I wrote on the relationship between the DSP and The
Socialist Alliance in Australia. It was posted to this list from the
CPGB's  paper the Weekly Worker it was not written originally with a view
to being published there or on this list. So some of it must have seemed
somewhat arcane to many list readers.

In response to Joaquin's question as to why it was printed half a world
away from where I wrote it in Australia I fear the answer is a little less
conspiratorial and sinister than the overlt-imaginative Dave Riley made it
seem.

I wrote the piece and forwarded to a number of people including ex and
current SA members who I thought may be interested in it. One of those
forwarded to the person who sent it to WW with my blessings. I am not
politically aligned to the CPGB.

I found the response to me in the form of a statement by the National
Executive of the DSP over the top. I certainly don't feel motivated by
malice towards the DSP.I sought to make it clear that,in my opinion, the
DSP has operated in its interests in the SA rather than in the genuine
interest of seeking socialist and left regroupment. I am accused of quoting
out of context-I assert that I haven't-but if I have the solution is in the
DSP's hands.Make available in full the material I quoted from and blow me
out of the water by exposing where I have been misleading.

Their complaints about their rights to have an internal discussion I fear
fall on deaf  ears with me. They do not seek to hide their discussion from
the state and its forces but to hide their practices within the SA from
it's nonDSP members and the rest of the left.

The post fowarded by leading members of the current DSP majority from the
Socialist Unity Network UK is something of an embarassment to its writer.
His positive spin on the SA's influence in the union movement and the work
done by the DSP in fostering left regroupment are refuted by the words of
long-time leading members of the DSP that I quoted.

On a positive note I can assure comrades still within the SA that there is
plenty of life on the outside and much useful political work in the fight
against repressive anti-union land so-called anti-terror laws.

Contrary to Rileys claims of my being obsessed with the DSP I assure him
that there is plenty of political and union activity to occupy me and I
will be quite content if this is the last I write on the DSP/SA.

Greg Adler




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