you have no right to think that about anyone here. furthermore, were i to use your critieria and apply them to you, i would draw the conclusion that you do nothing to build and promote a party also since apparently you think being a union activist for nearly twenty years --and written about it frequently enough for four years now so that there's no excuse for you not knowing about what i do/have done-- makes one among those who do nothing to build and promote a party.
however, i happen to think that union activism is part of building a socialist left and a party-whatever that means "party". so i would count you as a person who promotes and builds a party, as inchoate as that party/left movement is right now. i mean, yoshie, do you really think that the following is somehow not part of building and promoting a party: -striking in support of striking teachers without a contract -fighting for plant closing legislation -fighting against toxic dumping and low level nuke dumps sitings -working on a documentary film undermining false claims about plant closing and creating fora for undermining those false claims -creating a series of town meetings to raise awareness about an impending plant closing and to organize communal networks to address that closing and to get people to think about the nature of work and capitalism --helping organize a union struggle at a nursing home and at a plastics plant -fighting for community oversite of the cops -clinic defense and building a feminist adolescent pregnancy program to reduce the high rate of teen pregnancies
how are these things irrelevant to building and defending a party? if there is really no party to join--and there sure hasn't been a whole lot where i've lived and what there was being engaged with those folks mostly led me to the above, then what exactly more do you want me to do to prove my activist street cred to you?
i certainly don't seek to create a party that seeks to get people elected to office. nor, i imagine, do you based on what you've typed.