Twenty five years ago folks used to make the same gripe about the CP and the SWP. I never liked the politics of the old CP, but at least they went through the motions of outreach, even if they also had a fair number of 'fronts.'Those outfits are now shadows of their former selves and can no longer pull big mobilizations off (even if they wanted to). That leaves Answer to fill the vacuum. Everybody likes to gripe about them (and there are reasons to, for sure). But the frightening thing is that if they disappeared, who would fill their shoes? I shudder to think about what the anti-war movement would look like in the Bay Area if they disappeared - a couple of RCP fronts and some non-profit executive directors holding a press conference? SR
> It's unfortunate that all of the neophytes attending could not be exposed
to
> better political substance. Why can't all the lefts with minds beautiful
> enough to look down upon ANSWER ever mount their own effort? It's also
> pitiful that the big DP-oriented constituency groups -- the AFL, N.O.W.,
> NAACP, etc. -- couldn't pull something like this together themselves.
>
>
>
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> [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org]On Behalf Of Doug Henwood
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> Carl Remick wrote:
>
> >I understand representatives of Move On are still waiting at Penn
> >Station. They're willing to defer arriving in Washington until late
> >2006 :)
>
> I heard they were waiting for Hillary to come on board.
>
> Doug
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