Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 08:02:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: <tyler-AT-igc.apc.org>
Subject: Re: SAVE THIS LIST-PROPOSALS


Response to Bob Malecki:
 
There were no big fireworks around the Cleveland convention.  The
contrived Labor Party that was formed in Cleveland, Ohio in June
1996 received almost no press coverage and was in no way
representative of the unionized labor force of the US, which is
only 15% of the American work force.  Of the 1400 or so in
attendance (in a nation of 250 million), 146 were Labor Party
Advocates members; the rest were bureaucrats and their lackeys
>from a few unions.  Since the convention, the Buffalo, New York
chapter of Labor Party Advocates has been kicked out, presumably
for being too radical.  By definition, this Labor Party is a top-
down approach, since the delegates were not elected by the
American workingclass nor the unionized American workingclass as
a whole.  So far, this little farce of a party is passing
resolutions, but not organizing mass demonstrations.  We
certainly cannot go back to any previous era when other labor
parties were formed and imitate their development, which came out
of previous historical circumstances.  History can only repeat
itself as a farce.  We definitely must go forward.
 
tyler


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