******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. *****************************************************************
I've been spending the past number of weeks trying to compile as many documents as I can with regards to the year-long faction fight in the Committee for a Workers' International, which has up to now resulted in what I think in a number of splits, the main ones being between the Taaffe minority and the anti-Taaffe alliance, and between the group in Ireland now called RISE, whose public representative is Paul Murphy. On top of a split in Socialist Alternative in the US in 2018, there appears to be another split impending between the "left" and "right" factions still left in there, though I have no documents for that debate. The meaty part of the debate (politically speaking) seems to have happened between the factions in Ireland, with the debate between the two international groupings being rather repetitive and increasingly hysterical after the first few. I've compiled as many as I could find into a Google Drive for comrades to read at their pleasure. I've also tried to organise them thematically (General Analysis, Programme, Democracy, Issues of Oppression, United Front) but given the nature of the documents that was generally an imperfect system. I also didn't organise them by release, so there could be cases where you're reading a document that's responding to a document further into the folder. I might fix that later if I get the time and can figure out their chronological order (some documents are not dated). The archive of documents is also far from complete. There are some "Part 2" documents in there to which I don't have the "Part 1", and in some documents there are references to different documents (which seem to be of some importance) which I have so far been unable to fine. In total there are 51 documents which I've found thus far, the majority of which I've grouped under the general heading of "Democracy", though in reality some of them are just individuals having at eachother personally. The two main reasons I've decided to dedicate some time to this is, firstly, the principle of the matter. There should be no secret debates in the workers' movement. Secondly, I think the politics of some of these documents is quite good - and new - and therefore worth spreading around for people to engage with. I might do a "collector's choice" edition of the CWI documents where I pick out the "good" ones and the responses to them at a later date. For people wanting to pick out the more interesting political documents without wading through hundreds of thousands of words - I would recommend looking at the United Front and Programme folders, reading the document on the "Dual Task" in the Analysis folder, and taking a look at the debate on women's oppression in the Oppression folder. There are some interesting documents under Democracy as well but it seems to me to boil down to the same old democracy debates that have been spun around the Trotskyist left historically. The documents there I would highly recommend are "Out of the Clear Blue Sky" and "The absence of democracy in the party: Some historical context". https://secure-web.cisco.com/1vILSZE-qmvt7LiahkfWZgC9cg3vk_zWdqpplkgPqSmcNeWp-VpXPqPp9TTMFxQiFFwERIdoq4qA8jfdY83295NLPzRfbAFe3wYj8wDHSyt4eTowLVsbt2wwvzqgk4HpmyqXYmJyG0-Jg4VZ9zqn7_7yYGiIKjENCGzmke07AGyWb9XYcBLSnl_FdxMsK4UL0zemSR6-qV8PDJZI05LXG7JgiNCypv0nq7icQarkam9RHdKvbU0noC7HHEiaKCiJvrlQgkYnmBcD11l5FjV5ekvfDzWBTVf5bUIAs1pdP-Czv6ZvIe0_RhctNkiNGvVkRAVPzmBOc3us82xRejVE7uLoDTcWyOm-i4lgOmgAgpM-FSVOs9W5eexT3gr6zSFWl/https%3A%2F%2Ftelegra.ph%2FSocialist-Party-of-Ireland-CWI-Split-Documents-11-17 _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
