Committees of Correspondence for Democracy...

[More Fire for the People]

What do you all know about the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism? How is the CCDS organized? Does a revolutionary tendency exist within the organisation? If not, is there a revolutionary equivalent of the CCDS?

[YSR]

From what little I know about them, I know them to be a reformist socialist group. I met a few of them this summer at the Midwest Social Forum. I think they are related to the Socialist Party somehow, some sort of split, I believe.

[SPK]

The Committees of Correspondence broke away from the Communist Party usa sometime in the early nineties, after the collapse of the Soviet Union. They objected to the CP's traditional, anti-democratic internal structure and to some of its bullshit politics -- like its line, or lack thereof, on the oppression of queers.

Like the CP, they're just another lame, reformist, liberal organization. I think that they are on the steering committee of one of the main antiwar "coalitions" in the usa, United for Peace and Justice.

[YSR]

My bad. Good call SPK. It's the CPUSA they broke away from, not the SPUSA.