>Max:
>>Opposing U.S. intervention does not depend on solidarity
>>with the FARC or anyone else. Presumably most people
>>here who opposed NATO in the Balkans were not practising
>>solidarity w/Milo.
>
>Actually, the same divide that existed with respect to US intervention in
>Yugoslavia exists with respect to the impending war in Colombia. Nation
>Magazine liberals, Z Magazine and the like opposed Nato's military actions
>but accepted the State Department's demonization of Milosevic. Ramsey
>Clark, the WWP, Jared Israel, yours truly opposed the war and rejected the
>demonization.
>
>In Colombia you have two nationwide coalitions. One is called the Colombia
>Support Network. Don't get confused by the name.
>(http://www.colombiasupport.net/) They are not in solidarity with the FARC
>and wish it would disappear. It is led by figures from NACLA and orients to
>the "civil society" groups. In calling for peace, they seem to forget that
>the FARC was nearly exterminated when it came in from the mountains ten
>years ago to run in elections. No wonder they seem gunshy today.
>
>The other coalition, which includes CISPES, is called the Colombia Action
>Network. (http://free.freespeech.org/actioncolombia/) It does not demonize
>the FARC and ELN but neither does it seem to have the same kind of bonds
>that CISPES had with the FMLN/FDR.
>
>Neither group includes each other's URL in their links section.
>
>Louis Proyect
>Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org/
So, what's to be done, practically speaking? Work within the
Colombia Action Network or get a FARC solidarity group going if you
can?
Yoshie
