[lbo-talk] Sadr Urges Followers to Resist U.S. Forces

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sat Mar 17 16:23:38 PDT 2007


Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> Just back from a demo in Columbus, Ohio (about 200 or so), from Noon
> till about 2 PM. It's doubtful that an "anti-war movement" will ever
> grow in the USA. What is to be done, then?

What you mean is that there is not a _large_ movement: 200 in Columbus, nearly that many here, presumably comparable numbers elsewhere, _is_ a movement.

It would appear (correctly) even as a largish movement if you made the correct comparison -- not to the anti-Vietnam War movement but to the Anti-Korean war movment of the '50s and the Central-America Solidarity Movement of the early '80s. And both of those movements were successful, _highly_ successful in the only way such particular struggles except under extraordinary conditions can be: there were more activists left over for the nexe occasion than there had been before the movements started.

The current movement needs _only_ not to grow smaller to be as much of a success as any conceivable left program at this time could be.

Carrol



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