Charles: >> They already started one [a socialist party]. >> >> Socialist Party USA >> http://www.sp-usa.org/
Sabri: > How are they doing? Any good? last time I checked, the SP was very small, with each state's branch acting pretty independently of others. BTW, I was a member of the SPUSA in the very early 1970s. It split in three parts: 1) Social Democrats USA, heavily into defending Israel, linked to the more conservative wing of the AFL-CIO and the American Federation of Teachers, and opposing George McGovern's presidential bid in 1972 (because he was "soft"). It became a major source of neoconservatism in Washington DC and elsewhere. See http://www.socialdemocrats.org/. 2) Michael Harrington's Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, which tended toward a more anti-Vietnam war position and supported McGovern. It merged later with the New American Movement (which I had joined a few years after quitting DSOC) to become the Democratic Socialists of America. See http://www.dsausa.org/dsa.html. (When the merger happened, I quit the organization.) 3) the "Debs caucus" of the SPUSA, which started calling itself "SPUSA" after the split, even though SDUSA copyrighted the name. It was strongly opposed to the Vietnam war and I was highly sympathetic to them. (I gave away _their_ newspaper, not the official SPUSA one, at a big demonstration in Washington DC in 1971.) However, since all my friends were DSOCers, I went with that organization for a year or so. The (new) SPUSA later had problems with its own "Debs caucus." Their web page is not working currently. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
