I thought my comments and comparisons made this entiresly clear. Before Rowe, advocates of choice assisted women denied reproductive rights get to where they could get help. It will reappear under renewed bans. It's not our initiative that will make that happen. But we should assist it wherever we can.
On Fri, Nov 8, 2024, 10:28 AM Marv Gandall via groups.io <marvgand2= [email protected]> wrote: > [Edited Message Follows] > [Reason: editorial] > On Thu, Nov 7, 2024 at 06:15 PM, Mark Baugher wrote: > > The Democrats will wake up activists with well-funded activities...Some > mobilizations will be started by the DP; others may be like the Women's > March where the DP piles on with their politicians, staffers, and promotion > machinery, make it much bigger, and try to coop it. There will be fake > united fronts, such as coalitions that are owned and controlled by > Democrats. > > In the 30's, it was the CP which mobilized workers, blacks, immigrants, > and other oppressed minorities in broad fronts against the far right, with > the ultimate aim of overthrowing capitalism rather than strengthening it. > Today this task would fall to the Democratic leadership if it chose to do > so under pressure from its base and for opportunistic electoral reasons. > This tells us pretty much everything we need to know about the nature of > this period compared to the interwar years. > > I advocate to work with the Democrats but not for them > > Anyone on the left of the DP, notably the DSA, or allied with it on the > outside would share a common opposition to the Democratic establishment. > Whether to support the party electorally is a separate question unrelated > to the need to work with rank-and-file Democrats in united fronts. > > I think your post is very good in other respects, especially your two > suggestions for nonviolent legal defence. How to organize to defend against > the violence of the MAGA Freikorps and their equivalents in Canada and > elsewhere may become a big issue. At present it’s only the Black Bloc which > is experienced in violent street confrontations against the right. The > Communist party was far larger and more disciplined and played a leading > role within the industrial unions in the 30's. Will today's unions and > allied organizations representing blacks, immigrants, women, LGBTQ+ and > other left-wing constituencies come together in similar fashion to organize > and equip protesters to stand up to the Trump administration's goons and > cops? There will be pressure on all of them to do so if we see a lot of > protest activity. > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#33415): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/33415 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/109441085/21656 -=-=- 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. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
