ISWoR, Trojan Horse For Russian Workers and American Activists

[Michael Pugliese]

Reading over this ISWoR statement, the list of signatories, and belonging to
the alter-ee list (along with fellow lbo'er Jamal Hannah) I've come to the
opposite conclusion to comrade Tony Abdo on lbo-list. The ISWoR does appear
to be initiated by some Brit Trots (the exact lineage of which I haven't
tracked
down, time to scour that list of "Trotskyist Parties of The World, "URL and
The Encyclopedia of Trotskyism Online...) but it and the alter-ee list is a
broad umbrella group from anarcho-syndicalists, to Trotskyists to left
Labourites. (BTW, how much longer till Tony Blair purges Tony Benn?). To see
the machinations of the "type of political forces" that fueled the AIFLD
under Jay Lovestone, Irving Brown, William Doherty and the rest of
that CIA/SDUSA/NED bunch, really stretches things. On the alter-ee list
(btw, it stands for alternative network for eastern europe
see this URL for su*scip*on details,

 http://tigerden.com/~berios/lists.html )

 there has been full and frank debate all over the map on the range of
concerns of socialists and trade unionists in the East and West. And the
only Soros foundation money is
to fund the server it is on in a Polish university I believe. The question
of NGO's and Soros and other Western funding was aired recently.
Also see the 2nd URL below for an intersesting piece from Socialist Action
(Int'l. Alliances
against NATO)on the stances taken by
varous and sundry social democratic, Trotskyist and in the Comintern family
parties and non-aligned journals like New Left
Review and Labour Focus on Eastern Europe, as re: American Imperialism and
the fSU and the NATO bombings of Serbia, which is usefully supplemented by a
piece by NLR author Peter Gowan in the latest Socialist Register entitled, "
Making Sense of NATO's War on Yugoslavia, "
which takes a nanced approach towards the war neither shall we say the
Workers World line
that Milo is standing up to the NWO,
nor the Todd Gitlin, David Rieff (son of Susan Sontag, y'all) raring to jump
up into the cockpit to bomb Milosevic personally line.

                                    Michael Pugliese

http://members.aol.com/ISWoR/english/news/cwsc1.html
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/sa_review/bint.htm