I had quite a few misgivings about writing this article since the SWP of
the USA is such a minor player but its Zionist evolution is of such a
shocking nature and since so many ex-members—including me—have been so
perplexed by it that I finally decided to put something together.
I very rarely write about this group nowadays but at one time it
mattered a lot more to me. I was a member from 1967 to 1978 and at the
time I left it had about 1500 members. Now it has around a hundred or so
mostly aging (like me) cadre. I maintain a mailing list on the group at
Yahoo that was originally designed to shunt discussions about it from
ex-members off of Marxmail that really didn’t need to be burdened by
such trivia. Ninety percent of our subscribers have no idea what the SWP
was, even if at one time it was the apple of Leon Trotsky’s eye.
The Militant newspaper article that prompted this response appeared in
the April 6th edition that was posted to their website yesterday. Titled
“Israel vote marks political openings for workers, Arabs”, it celebrates
Bibi Netanyahu’s election:
A strong vote for the Likud Party in the March 17 Israeli elections
ensures the next government will continue to be led by Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu. The results reflect concerns of working people there
that U.S. President Barack Obama’s foreign policy makes the threat of
attacks from Iran and the reactionary Islamist Hamas forces that rule
Gaza more likely.
full: http://louisproyect.org/2015/03/29/on-the-swps-turn-toward-israel/
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