Olentzero
23rd July 2012, 11:24
Much as I hate zombifying a closed thread from earlier this month, you said something here (http://www.revleft.com/vb/showpost.php?p=2473798&postcount=7) that I wanted to respond to specifically, given that you and I are both members of the CWI.
I spent almost 20 years in the ISO back in the States, and got to know the ins and the outs of the organization very, very well. When I finally ended up here in Sweden and started looking around for another organization to join, I ran across Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna, the local CWI organization. After just an hour talking with some leading local comrades here in Stockholm, I did not hesitate to join - precisely because the RS felt exactly like being back in the ISO. Granted there are a few differences of opinion on a couple of issues, but their activism, their working-class orientation, their level of political consciousness - it all matches the milieu I found myself in over decades of activism with the ISO.
I assume you've only observed the ISO from the outside and probably haven't delved too deeply into the things you accuse them of. I'm telling you, right here and now, you have no idea what you're talking about. Do yourself a favor and lay off slamming the ISO. You do neither them nor the CWI any credit with that sectarian nonsense.
I spent almost 20 years in the ISO back in the States, and got to know the ins and the outs of the organization very, very well. When I finally ended up here in Sweden and started looking around for another organization to join, I ran across Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna, the local CWI organization. After just an hour talking with some leading local comrades here in Stockholm, I did not hesitate to join - precisely because the RS felt exactly like being back in the ISO. Granted there are a few differences of opinion on a couple of issues, but their activism, their working-class orientation, their level of political consciousness - it all matches the milieu I found myself in over decades of activism with the ISO.
I assume you've only observed the ISO from the outside and probably haven't delved too deeply into the things you accuse them of. I'm telling you, right here and now, you have no idea what you're talking about. Do yourself a favor and lay off slamming the ISO. You do neither them nor the CWI any credit with that sectarian nonsense.