At 11:14 16/07/2007, jim d wrote:
On 7/16/07, ken hanly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Here is a quote from James Laxer, a well known
Canadian left nationalist, and one of the founders of
the Waffle group. ...
why is it called the "Waffle"? that makes it sound bad. (No-one knows
for sure, by the way, why the IWW were called "Wobblies," another name
that sounds bad.)
when the emerging left nationalist formation within the NDP came to
taking a position in their manifesto on 'canadian' vs.
'international' unions, in the discussion I recall hearing about
(document writing was basically an eastern affair), one person was
accused of 'waffling' on the issue to which he responded that he'd
rather waffle on the left than waffle on the right. It became an in
joke and then the name for the faction. Nobody ever said it sounded
'bad'--- politics were rather more important. For the record, in
Ontario, where the Waffle and the trade union movement were bitter
enemies, the Waffle was expelled as a party-within-a-party whereas in
British Columbia, it gained control of the party in alliance with the
trade union movement.
michael
Michael A. Lebowitz
Professor Emeritus
Economics Department
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C., Canada V5A 1S6
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