Split in the HWRS

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On the Split in HWRS



Documents from April through July 2012


In late May and early June 2012, a series of disputes arose between, on the one hand, the majority of the comrades associated with HWRS, and, on the other hand, the two HWRS comrades (CR and DC) who had been functioning as the organization’s Executive Committee (EC). At the time, HWRS was engaged in a period of pre-Congress discussions leading up to a Congress planned for August 2012.
After the disputes surfaced, the EC comrades refused to engage in a substantive political discussion with the majority. Instead, they resorted to bureaucratic and draconian organizational measures foreign to the traditions and principles of HWRS. For example, they purported to prohibit HWRS members, on pain of expulsion from conducting any political discussion with comrade DW. They termed DW an “outsider” to HWRS, even though he is one of HWRS’s founding members and leading theorists. At the time, DW was on a leave of absence due to a physical disability, but had been participating in the organization’s internal life to the extent he was able, and contributing documents to the pre-Congress discussion, without any objection from the EC.
By mid-June, the disputes between the EC and the rest of the HWRS comrades had culminated in a split in the organization. Unfortunately, due to the EC’s bureaucratic behavior, the split occurred without any discussion of the political differences.

We have added to our website the following documents related to the split. The documents are in the form of PDF files that will open in a new browser window.

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ABOUT THE COMMUNIST WORKERS GROUP (USA)

The Communist Workers Group (USA) is founded in the Summer of 2012. Following a bitter struggle with the sectarian abstentionists of the HWRS and after an unsuccessful attempt by our international comrades to reunite the organization, the CWG (USA) was founded.
We are a Trotskyist tendency in Liaison Committee with the CWG (NZ) and the RWG (ZIM). We seek regroupment of revolutionary Marxists based on the programmatic conquests of the First Workingmen’s International, the Socialist Second International (until its collapse into reformism and social chauvinism under the nationalistic pressures in the face of imperialist war in 1914,) the first four congresses of the Third International and the critique of and strategies to expose and defeat imperialism, Stalinism, Social Democracy, the popular front, and fascism developed by the Left Opposition and the Fourth International.
We trace the degeneration, betrayal and death of the Fourth International to the collapse of the International Center during WWII and the decent into national Trotskyism by the leading sections. Vern & Ryan stood up to the role of Lora in the defeat of the Bolivian revolution in 1953 yet their critique was rejected and the Fourth International sealed its fate in betrayal. The elevation of Tito and Castro as “unconscious Trotskyists” covered for the Pabloite defeatism in the face of Stalinist expansion.
On this blog we will post articles of our own, our co-thinkers, and those with whom we debate. We will post our perspective on world events as well as, our take on and participation in the class struggle here in the belly of the beast. Our task is to unite with revolutionary Marxists to build a Revolutionary Worker’s International Party with sections in every nation that will help the working masses in the formation of their own democratic organizations (worker’s councils and workers self-defense guards) and prepare them to defeat imperialism and construct a socialist international planned economy based on workers power.