Article on the Labor Party in the new Labor Notes

Nurev at Kreative.net Nurev at Kreative.net
Sun Sep 13 02:11:14 PDT 1998


Max Sawicky wrote:
>
> >Anyway, are there any other Labor Party members here? Anyone planning
> >on going to the convention in November?
>
> Yes on one and no on two.
>
> I agree it would be foolish for an LP
> chapter to decline an endorsement to
> a pro-labor Democrat. Using resources
> to support such a candidate's campaign
> -- real fusion -- is a separate question.

Is this like being just a little pregnant? Isn't clear enough at this point in history that the Left has no business supporting the moderate wing of the Big Business Party? What is the point of supporting Democrats? Do you seriously think that LP support mean shit to them when compared to the expectations of quid pro quo by big business?

The Left needs to be independent and clean, and ready to fill the vacuum as Democrats and Republicans damage each other while competing for the power institutions. The Left should step out of the way, and let the elephants gore each other to death. At some point the public will be damn sick of both of them and ready to look elsewhere.

Joshua2



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