S29 Anti-War Rally in D.C. (from International A.N.S.W.E.R.)

[Dennis]

> With whom I work basically depends on who is supporting what cause.
> For instance, I've worked with AFL-CIO officials like Don Slaimon,
> who boasts of having worked to create "free & independent unions" in
> then socialist societies, especially during the strike of OSU workers
> in CWA Local 4501 in 2000 -- the kind of guys who are diametrically
> opposed to the Workers World Party on the question of the Chinese
> state, workers, & intellectuals.  I endorse neither's position on
> China, but that shouldn't prevent me from working with both -- with
> union officials when a local strike has to be supported, with Workers
> World organizers when an anti-war rally needs to be held at the
> moment when the precious few are willing to do anything.
>
> Yoshie

Well, Yoshie, I wouldn't brag about such alliances. True, one's political
options are sometimes limited, especially in times of crisis. But this
doesn't mean one abandons all perspective when dealing with wannabe nazis
like the WWP. March with whom you like, but know that your "comrades" would
sooner see you in a camp than democratically empowered. And what's this bit
about "precious few" willing "to do anything"? That's not the gist I get
from the networking I've been doing.

DP