IBT public meeting - Respect and the SWP: A self-inflicted disaster, London, 6 July 08

Submitted by bolshevik on 21 June, 2008 - 10:21.

Respect and the SWP: A self-inflicted disaster

Sunday 6 July 2008 - 2pm
Room 2A,ULU, Malet Street, London WC1E

When the popular-frontist Respect Coalition was launched by George Galloway in 2004 what did the British left do?

• Helped to found it, defending its policies even when they didn’t agree?
• Criticised it, but called to vote for it anyway?
• Didn’t support Respect, but supported the equally cross-class Stop the War Coalition?

‘The question of questions at present is the Popular Front.The left centrists seek to present this question as a tactical or even as a technical maneuver, so as to be able to peddle their wares in the shadow of the Popular Front. In reality, the Popular Front is the main question of proletarian class strategy for this epoch. It also offers the best criterion for the difference between Bolshevism and Menshevism.’
(Leon Trotsky,‘The POUM and the Popular Front’, 1936)

No support to popular-frontism wherever it raises its head!

britain@bolshevik.org, www.bolshevik.org

21 June, 2008 - 11:01

these are really fun if you go mob handed as the IBT's international callout is 7.

I don't this is an international callout for them either.