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Doug
Michael Pugliese wrote:
>On ANSWER and Washington demo and Leftist Parties
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>By Ted Glick
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>There's been a fair amount of back-and-forth recently on several email
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>lists I'm on regarding Workers World Party. WWP is the group without which
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>there would be no International ANSWER, the coalition which organized the
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>hugely successful January 18th peace demonstrations in Washington, D.C. and
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>San Francisco, Ca.
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>arguing, should we, in the words of one of them, refuse to "capitulate to,
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>endorse and work with ANSWER" and, instead, "break from them," "refuse their
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>endorsement," and "refuse (a) false unity with ANSWER and their unprincipled
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>tactics and message?" First, I do not believe that International
>ANSWER is THE answer. But any objective observer can see that they
>are PART OF the answer. Any group which can pull together the types
>of actions held on January 18th cannot be discounted as "marginal"
>or "fringe." Second, over the long run I believe that the
>constellation of groups and the political/tactical/process approach
>of UFPJ holds much more promise of building and holding together the
>kind of peace and justice movement needed in this critical period in
>our