"Lost Opportunities" Letter from Socialist Alternative to the ISO

[wizard135]

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Lost Opportunities: the ISO, the Sawant Campaign, and the 2012 Elections

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The Political Situation Facing the Left in 2012

In our view, the U.S. left largely missed a major opportunity to intervene in the 2012 elections. Five years into an economic crisis, with millions disillusioned in Obama and the Democrats, in the wake of Occupy and the global revolt of 2011, we argued throughout 2012 for the left to seize the moment and begin seriously building a political opposition to the two corporate parties"

[Lucretia]

This again? I think the analysis of the ISO representative quoted in the other thread was pretty much accurate. The candidate was put forward by SA as part of its party-building efforts. It's not the ISO's job to build Socialist Alternative. The ISO is too busy building a "broad," albeit mostly non-revolutionary, left to get involved, even passively, in the construction of SA.

[pinkoooo]

SA was not trying to build their own group and the fact that this is being said shows the pettiness of some of the rev left. All they asked for was a friggin endorsement.