[PEN-L:33017] multiple anti-war groups

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Title: multiple anti-war groups

[was: RE: [PEN-L:33015] Re: ANSWER, NION, United for Peace,& Win Without War Re:  sodexho and workers and colleges]

> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> > Apparently, there are four coalitions now: ANSWER, NION, United for
> > Peace, _and_ Win Without War:

Carrol writes:
> There will probably be more before there are fewer. And I
> think already  there are both individuals and groups that associate with
> more than one of these coalitions. Those are perhaps the people and groups that will
> help resolve what Yoshie (correctly I think) labels as "a case of one
> kind of sectarianism against another kind."

perhaps the (hopefully friendly) competition among groups would limit the power and careerism of the coalitions' bureaucrats? or is it the rank and file that have to play this role? (I'd vote for the latter.)

BTW, as Ian suggests, some of the worst sectarianism I've seen has been practiced by people who claim to be anti-sectarian, anti-Leninist, etc. Top-down (bureaucratic) practices are just as common among the "democratic left" as among the "sectarians."

Jim