Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 07:26:35 +1100
From: Steve Wright <pmargin-AT-froggy.com.au>
Subject: Re: AUT: Fwd: Sparts' new stuff on the anti-war movement, Palestine, 




Scott Hamilton wrote:

> I've just been tracking down some Sparts literature to
> put on the 'related reading' section AIC website,
> since we have a Sparts supporter involved. The Sparts
> get a hard time on this list, but some of their new
> stuff is really interesting, and well-written (ie
> soberly written) too:
>

Hmm, seems like we might have somewhat different understandings of the
word 'sober'.

Having visited the ICL site at Scott's suggestion, I did find the
following:

"Support for RC in particular as a “lesser evil” is evident within the
syndicalist-influenced COBAS unions as well. This is not
surprising. COBAS leader Pietro Falanga echoed the reformists in
insinuating that the Black Block anarchists are a tool of the cops.
While RC lauds “progressive” cops who denounce the government’s actions
in Genoa, one of the COBAS unions itself has a base
among municipal cops and also organizes prison guards. In welcoming the
hired thugs of the class enemy into the ranks of labor,
the COBAS leaders demonstrate their own confidence in the capitalist
state."

'Blood and Bullets in Genoa', http://www.icl-fi.org/ENGLISH/G-8.htm

Does anyone know any more about this accusation of organising cops and
prison guards? A similar charge was leveled against the CGT in Spain a
while back ...

Steve



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