Monopolise Resistance, part 2

national | miscellaneous | news report Thursday April 25, 2002 09:37 by Marcos

Question (Joe Carolan): "If GR disappeared from the scene, would the movement in Ireland be richer?" Answer: "Yes".

Yesterday Joe Carolan posted the full version of his GR Bulletin twice (!). Darling Joe, couldn't you just post the URL, so that people who are interested in your "organ" download it at leisure?
As regards your question - "If GR disappeared from the scene, would the movement in Ireland be richer?" - the answer is, of course, "yes".
As everybody knows, GR is a front organisation set up by the Socialist Worker Party in order to try to cash in (read "recruit and sell the paper") on the success of the anti-capitalist movement. There are basically two reasons why the SWP had to set up a front organisation. The first one is that 99.9% of ordinary working class people don't want to have anything to do with the SWP (most working class people, frankly, would quite literally run a mile in order to avoid having to say "Hello" to a SWP member); the second reason is that the SWP had to try to hide the fact that the anti-capitalist movement has shown that there are far more effective and appealing ways of fighting capitalism than being pushed around by middle-class professorial pseudo-radicals - read the Party "central committee" - such as, say, Kieran Allen or Marnie Holborow.