As i remember some folks in the Solidarity national office told me (in 2011, after reading my article) that Dave Frankel lived in the Detroit area and they offered to get us in touch. I wasn't particularly interested.
I had a friendlier, somewhat continuous relationship with Steve Bloom who lives in NYC (last i knew but afaik he hasn't been politically active in a socialist organization lately; recently he has been transforming more into a poet; i hope he's doing well). When Solidarity was founded in 1986 i continued to also be supportive of two other SWP descendant organizations, Socialist Action and the Fourth International Tendency. In the FIT Steve Bloom and i were comrades so that when the FIT (majority) decided to merge into Solidarity at the 1992 convention in St. Louis we met in person for the first time for a decade+. Steve apologized for his role in that 1971 'Lenin levy' maneuver. On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 6:10 PM Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/25/21 5:02 AM, Dayne Goodwin wrote: > > I wrote a long autobiographical response to Alan's 2011 comments > reflecting on my own SWP experiences (1969 - 1982/3) and my twenty-five > years of post-SWP experience frequently working with Peter Camejo (1983 - > 2008). It is posted on the Solidarity website: > > "What happened to the SWP (U.S.)?: Recent memoirs stir discussion" > by Dayne Goodwin, September 27, 2011 > https://solidarity-us.org/what_happened_to_the_swp/ > > "By late August I was looking forward to functioning as ‘organizer’ of > the relatively large and confident Logan YSA when I was unhappily > bludgeoned by telephone calls from YSA regional organizer Steve Bloom and > from Dave Frankel in the national office in NYC." > > I had been in the YSA for about 6 months when I joined comrades selling > the Young Socialist at the Stop the Draft Week protests in NYC in 1967. As > someone new to hawking newspapers, I was probably not as aggressive as more > experienced members but little did I expect to get a kind of judo chop on > the back of my neck from Dave Frankel. He said, "Sell, comrade, sell." Of > all the assholes I ran into in the Trotskyist movement, this guy was the > worst. He was so obnoxious that he wasn't even allowed into the inner > sanctum in NYC grouped around Charlie Bolduc, the SWP organizer. I heard > that Bolduc, a closeted gay, drank himself to death after quitting the SWP. > As for Frankel, I've never found a single reference to him on the net. I > wouldn't be surprised that he became a real estate salesman after dropping > out. > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#8228): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/8228 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/82332924/21656 -=-=- 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. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
