[lbo-talk] Re: Re: WWP Split

[Michael Pugliese]

Friends in SF have told me that there has been a split in Worker's World 
Party.  None of this is confirmed by WWP.  Apparently, the entire 
California section was expelled a week ago -- including their California 
spokesperson, Gloria LaRiva.  Only three Bay Area WWP cadres survived the 
expulsion.  The split was over the direction of the WWP controlled ANSWER 
coalition.  WWP leaders were concerned about ANSWER's drift to the right 
and the mass pressure within ANSWER to support Kerry.  This was combined 
with ANSWER activists' defensiveness around the red-baiting of ANSWER as a 
WWP front.
LaRiva will stay in ANSWER as will the other former WWP leaders in 
California.  It looks like ANSWER will now separate from WWP.