Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 17:18:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Louis N Proyect <lnp3-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: independent politics


On Wed, 3 Jul 1996, James F. Miller wrote:

> STOKES FOR MAYOR
> 
>    Louis posted this question for me:
> 
> >Louis: Comrade worker-bolshevik Jim, could you explain the reasoning
> >behind the SWP's decision to support long-time black Democrat Louis Stokes
> >when he decided to run as an independent candidate in the mid-1960s?
> 
>    As I recall, the SWP supported Stokes because he ran as an
> independent, and, at that time, the SWP thought that his
> campaign could represent the beginning of a trend towards
> independent Black political action.
> 
> Jim Miller
> Seattle
> jamiller-AT-igc.apc.org
> 


Louis: It's reassuring to see that Stokes represented an entirely
different class phenomenon than Tony Mazzochi.



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