Sam_b

Back as music mod, sorry guys

i agree only with the thumbs down. boooooh

You brighten my day with your posts sam!

Finish your dissertation?

Uh-oh, not the best timing... but I bet you'll show them on both occasions.

Best of luck for Friday!

Welcome back, Sam

No worries, comrade. To paraphrase Tony Cliff: It is fine for revolutionaries to make mistakes, so long as they learn from them, and don't continue to repeat them.

Congrats!

[You still owe me an anecdote of your time in the Czech Republic. ]

Who ever said anything about criticisms being admonished? Nobody. The SWP has stood by their views from the debate. The ISO stands by ours. That is fine. The differences did not reflect matters of principle, but matters of tactics and strategy. The difference between you and Callinicos is that he at least had a working knowledge of our organization's activism, whereas you relied on second hand accounts of individual ex-ISO activists (the definition of hearsay).

It is true that I do not know you. It is also true that you do not know about the ISO or its activism. I'd give a "measured response" if you gave some concrete criticisms and not just relied on hearsay about us not being a "praxis organization". If you support us then why not engage with our differences in an honest manner?

It really is unfortunate that you're willing to accept hearsay about an organization that has a working relationship with your own group, and has nearly identical politics. I can't argue about what some SWP members in your city have said about us. As I suspected, your charges have no concrete basis. I could describe the large number of mass actions that the ISO has been involved in organizing in Northern California alone. But I don't think it'll do any good, since you've made up your mind so easily.