From: "Robert Malecki" <malecki-AT-robertsfors.mail.telia.com>
Subject: SV: M-TH: United Fronts and revolutionary politics
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 19:20:34 +0100


>Rebecca P writes to Bob M:
>
>>>In the present period, where revolutionaries are not in the leadership of
the
>>>mass of working class women, the tasks of organising such a movement
still
>>>exist.  We demand of the Social Democratic and Stalinist leaders of the
>>>working class that they provide resources and support for the building of
>>>such
>>>a movement.  [Is this not an incorrect demand?]. In this way we can enter
in
>>>to a united front with the most militant sections of working class women
and,
>>>through joint actions and communist propaganda, seek to win them  from
their
>>>misleaders.
>>
>>You say that the above piece is bullshit and nothing but cenrtist garbage.
>>But is not possible for revolutionaries to force under mass pressure this
>>element to provide more resources. In this way the confidence of the
masses
>>in their own power is built up while they  see through their own class
>>experience that these resources were only provided under pressure and as a
>>means of stalling and containing them. Can this success not be built on
to,
>>on a revolutionary basis, further pressurise and expose them culminating
in
>>their eventual replacement by a revolutionary leadership.
>
>This exchange between  Rebecca and Bob highlights some central questions
>regarding the relations between a Bolshevik vanguard party and the mass
>movement.

Dear Rebecca,

Hugh gave you some good answers about this kind of stuff. But I still feel
that the document you sent to the list has two fatal weaknesses. One putting
both single issue "movements" as others in the context of a "fighting united
front" connected to liquidating the party for entry into these fronts..

Over and above this I once again repeat that we fight in all of these
movements with the full power of the program of Trotskyism and world
revolution connected to the vital necessity of building a revolutionary
International..

This is counter-posed to the orientation that this document appears to
represent.

Warm regards
Bob Malecki
..






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