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A key mistake some Left groups make is focusing their anti-war actions
on “all sides,” wrongly believing that this alone is an internationalist
approach against imperialism and war. But a critical component gets
ignored when this principle is clung to.
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/10/27/stopping-hillarys-coming-war-on-syria/
This is from Shamus Cooke, one of Counterpunch's stable of tireless
Assad defenders. Some left groups? What planet is he living on? Some
left groups? Really? Except for the ISO and Solidarity, every left group
I can think of agrees with Cooke and his microsect. (I exclude the
American SWP since it is non compos mentis.) That's in the USA. Outside
of the USA, the Australian Socialist Alternative lines up with the ISO
and Solidarity.
Left groups in the USA:
-Socialist Action
-Workers World
-Party for Socialism and Liberation
-Communist Party
-Committees of Correspondence
-Socialist Alternative (Sawant's group)
-Socialist Organizer (I may be wrong on this but I can't track it down
since their website can't be reached. You get stopped with a "This site
may be hacked" when you try to access it. Furthermore, the Lambertiste
International cannot be accessed either on the web. Have they cashed it in?)
-Spartacist League
-International Bolshevik Tendency
Left groups outside the USA
-Counterfire (John Rees's outfit)
-SWP (I just checked to make sure of what I had a suspicion about. Simon
Assaf, once a reliable analyst of MENA, now characterizes Syria as
little more than a proxy war)
-Socialist Alliance in Australia (Greenleft people)
-Virtually the entire Communist Party, or what's left of it.
This is not to speak of Marxist publications like Monthly Review and
Canadian Dimension that are openly pro-Assad.
And those conspicuous by their silence: New Left Review, Socialist
Register, Science and Society and Socialism and Democracy.
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