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They used to show up at Bard College and distribute newspapers. They seemed like a standard left group to me. And no, that isn't a compliment. - Amith On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 6:43 PM, Louis Proyect 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. > ***************************************************************** > > On 2/12/15 6:27 PM, Einde O'Callaghan via Marxism wrote: > >> One of their "endearing" tactics that I experienced several times was >> heckling speakers and generally disrupting other groups' meetings until >> they were physically ejected and then organising petitions against "the use >> of violence in the workers' movement"! >> > > 20 years ago they were more "influential", to be more generous to them > than they deserve. Doug Henwood touted their newspaper as did Alexander > Cockburn. But they were ultimately up against a sea change that was taking > place in the post-Soviet where the whole Soviet mystique had lost its > attraction. Their whole stance was based on "defending the Soviet Union", > which meant supporting the invasion of Afghanistan. There's a residue of > that in their perverse backing of the KKE in Greece. To a large extent, > there's a large element of contrarianism in their politics. Like Spiked > Online but more in an ultraleft direction. I doubt that they have much > purpose today except "intervening" at a mass meeting on Syriza, etc., which > I suppose is all they need to keep going. Rather thin fare if you ask me. > > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/ > options/marxism/amithrgupta%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ 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
