> The WWP, main force behind the Antiwar ANSWER, Splits
1 July 2004, 19:14
Surprisingly ahistorical, or per’aps deliberately clueless, tea-leaf reading dominates
this article.
Also, worth reading is this sf-frontlines outfit’s vitriolic attack on the green party
for not supporting Nader for a third run on their ticket.
On to the rumor at hand:
"We have noticed, however, that the ANSWER webpage has two URLs, one for
the West Coast, and one for the rest of the country, possibly
reflecting the lines of the split. We also noticed that the WWP and its
allies in ANSWER are pushing to support the demonstrations at the National
Conventions of both the Democratic and Republican parties,"
The ANSWER website has forever had a link to the SF and to the East Coast
groups.
The website has had a fairly nice redesign, lately but the linkages feel
about like what they did a year ago to me.
Don’t know spit about why ANSWER demonstrating at both Demo and Repub
conventions would suggest that the West Coast contingent have split. If I
understand the hypothetical, it’s that the West Coast don’t want to run a
Presidential candidate this year - but that’s hardly a reason not to
demonstrate at the Demo convention.
It’s not like it’s news to ANSWER that these are two tines of one fork.
And the SF ANSWER site prominently features the call to demonstrate at
both conventions, as does the NYC site. The callout at the SF site has
been up since early May - so its being there does not look to me like
’imposition of discipline’ but continuity of content.
Is there a split? Perhaps. Perhaps not. The ’evidence’ presented by
this piece is pretty thin - lots of hearsay, lots of please do air your
laundry for us stuff. There can be tactical disagreement without need for
a pissing match to satisfy the likes of people whose primary concrete
evidence looks thin.
And to hide the thinness, Morales closes with ’It is important, however,
for the WWP and for the faction that abandoned it — to come up publicly
and explain the political reasons behind the split and how that could
affect the antiwar work of ANSWER, not to satisfy a morbid wish to know
the latest gossip gripping a small socialist group, but to help the rest
of the left comprehend how that can affect their common antiwar
activities.’
bullshit. He’s saying ’well, rumor has it,’ then he’s saying ’now you
need to come tell me when you stopped beating your wife.’ Get a real
quote, you know, from someone on the record?
Surprisingly ahistorical, or per’aps deliberately clueless, tea-leaf reading dominates
this article.
Also, worth reading is this sf-frontlines outfit’s vitriolic attack on the green party
for not supporting Nader for a third run on their ticket.
On to the rumor at hand:
"We have noticed, however, that the ANSWER webpage has two URLs, one for
the West Coast, and one for the rest of the country, possibly
reflecting the lines of the split. We also noticed that the WWP and its
allies in ANSWER are pushing to support the demonstrations at the National
Conventions of both the Democratic and Republican parties,"
The ANSWER website has forever had a link to the SF and to the East Coast
groups.
The website has had a fairly nice redesign, lately but the linkages feel
about like what they did a year ago to me.
Don’t know spit about why ANSWER demonstrating at both Demo and Repub
conventions would suggest that the West Coast contingent have split. If I
understand the hypothetical, it’s that the West Coast don’t want to run a
Presidential candidate this year - but that’s hardly a reason not to
demonstrate at the Demo convention.
It’s not like it’s news to ANSWER that these are two tines of one fork.
And the SF ANSWER site prominently features the call to demonstrate at
both conventions, as does the NYC site. The callout at the SF site has
been up since early May - so its being there does not look to me like
’imposition of discipline’ but continuity of content.
Is there a split? Perhaps. Perhaps not. The ’evidence’ presented by
this piece is pretty thin - lots of hearsay, lots of please do air your
laundry for us stuff. There can be tactical disagreement without need for
a pissing match to satisfy the likes of people whose primary concrete
evidence looks thin.
And to hide the thinness, Morales closes with ’It is important, however,
for the WWP and for the faction that abandoned it — to come up publicly
and explain the political reasons behind the split and how that could
affect the antiwar work of ANSWER, not to satisfy a morbid wish to know
the latest gossip gripping a small socialist group, but to help the rest
of the left comprehend how that can affect their common antiwar
activities.’
bullshit. He’s saying ’well, rumor has it,’ then he’s saying ’now you
need to come tell me when you stopped beating your wife.’ Get a real
quote, you know, from someone on the record?
Like what a journalist would do?