Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 09:37:30 +0100
From: Mr Nobody <mrnobody-AT-geocities.com>
Subject: Re: che fare


Thanks for the info.

batcom-AT-PoBoxes.com wrote:
> 
> At 15.42 19/06/97 +0100, Mr Nobody wrote:
> >Does anyone have any info on an Italian based Bordigist organisation,
> >...They said they
> >identified with the PCI up until 1926 (!) and were more interventionist
> >than Battaghlia Communista, whom they claimed were just into theory
> >(perhaps Battaghlia will disagree...).
> 
> M.jr:
> Yes, of course we disagree about "into theory" but certainly agree they (Che
> fare/OCI) are much more interventionist than us. To that extent they are
> interventionist that they were not ashamed of flanking  Saddam Hussein,
> during the Gulf War, for the usual (to the leftists) idea that "objectively
> Irak was playing an anti-imperialist role". Actually they called to support
> Irak, while we were calling the Irakian and Western workers to arise against
> the capital, which is the real responsible of famine, crisis and wars. And
> we could go on in citing the interventionsist political activities of such a
> group.
> >

Ugh. I feel all dirty after talking to them now! But seriously, this knd
of stuff is 
completely unacceptable. In the UK even the group Leninist, which went
on
to take on the name Communist Party of Great Britain, took an
internationalist
stand against the Gulf War. I was involved in a rather pathetic anti-war
group
called No War But the Class War, which was criticised in a copy of
Aufheben. 


> >I'm afraid they may now have a false impression about the movement in
> >the UK, in that several of us were chatting about Bordiga,  IBRP, and
> >the historic communist left  etc, all of whom are largely unknown in the
> >UK.
> If they got the impression that the IBRP is leading the "movement" in UK
> (but I don't believe it) they are certainly wrong. But, sure, we are not
> more unknown inside the only movement  which intersests us than several
> people/grouplet which claim to constitute the "movement".
> 
no offense meant by this. I just remember a conversation with an ICC
member
who was totally astounded that me and a friend had been reading stuff
like "the democratic principal" & "party & class" in Communist Program.
The 
'che fare' types didn't seemed at all surprised.
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