Re: Weekly Worker 423 (14/3/02) - SA Trade Union Fractions Needed

John,

the CPGB participate in the UK_Left_Network list on a regular basis. 
There are over 500 people on this list, and it has very many more 
postings than Marxist - so unless you want a flood press no-E-Mail. 
You may find the debate somewhat different to this one.

Andrew Coates

-- In marxist@xxxx, John Lacny <jplst15+@xxxx> wrote:
> The Weekly Worker writes:
> 
> > However, we must be careful to avoid
> > substituting the easier task of engaging
> > with leftwing office-holders for  the much
> > harder task of winning the rank and file
> > -- of educating, agitating and organising
> > them. Winning resolutions and union
> > positions whilst the great majority remains
> > inert is to build on sand
> 
> You know, I have never met any of the Communist Party of Great 
Britain 
> comrades in person (since I'm not from the UK), so I don't know 
what their 
> practice is like, but their analysis of political developments 
worldwide 
> and their prescriptions for the way forward tend to be so 
completely 
> right-on that I am really floored.  If I were British I would be in 
the 
> CPGB.
> 
> I'd appreciate it much if some of the CPGB members would 
participate in 
> these discussions more often than the weekly posting of what's in 
their 
> newspaper.  I realize that e-mail discussions are not a political 
priority, 
> but I think we can learn a lot from eachother.
> 
> John Lacny


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