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It didn't say anything about them running against Syriza. Do you have any link as such? I agree it's a silly comment nonetheless. On Wednesday, January 21, 2015, Stuart Munckton via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > By the IST group that is part of anti-capitalist coalition Antarsya, which > is running *against* Syriza, in the UK Socialist Worker > < > http://socialistworker.co.uk/art/39788/Left+gains+in+Greece+as+rulers+fail+to+panic+voters > >: > "We’ve never sold so many copies of Workers’ Solidarity, Socialist > Worker’s sister paper." > > On the verge of electing the most radical government in Europe since the > 1930s, with all of the huge issues this raises and contradictions and > problems and potentials for both advance and defeat for working people in > Greece and Europe in their many millions.... and they actually think this > is a relevent comment in a piece providing "analysis" of the sitaution. > > I am sure members of this group, and all the other far left groups in, (and > just like members of all the component groups of Syriza), are active in a > range of struggles -- is they say, as though the ability to say "we are > involved in struggles" then gives them grounds to make such a seemingly > unself-aware absurd statement as this. > > I mean, if at a time like this in Greece, you couldn't sell a far left > paper, it would have to be an astonishingly crap one... I'd say even > whatever the Spartacus-aligned group is in Greece is experiencing record > sales too... > > You might be making a crazy sectarian error, you might be unable to > actually connect with and win working class in any signficant numbers > despite the severity of the crisis and openness to radical solutions... but > you are selling more copies of your paper than ever before. What a great > victory for the oppressed working people of Greece. > > It's hard to know whether to laugh or cry. > > > > > > > > -- > “Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is humanity’s > original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, > through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde, Soul of Man > Under Socialism > > “The free market is perfectly natural... do you think I am some kind of > dummy?” — Jarvis Cocker > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/amithrgupta%40gmail.com -- - Amith _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
