Let me correct myself here. After I sent this message I realized that I
had consistently abbreviated the Party for Socialism and Liberation as
PLP. How could I have done that? The abbreviation should have been PSL.
The PLP is the Progressive Labor Party, a completely and totally
different organization. n
On 8/8/2017 9:38 PM, Roger Loran Bailey (Redacted sender rogerbailey81
for DMARC) wrote:
Let me offer some thoughts about the origins of this. I note that this is from the ANSWER Coalition. ANSWER stands for Act Now to Stop War and End Racism. It used to be the anti-war coalition the main participant of which was the Workers World Party. I think WWP was also the initiator of the founding of ANSWER. A little over ten years ago the WWP went through a split. The faction that left the party founded the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Because of democratic centralism norms it is hard to say what the split was really about because right after the split there was no discernible difference between any political position of the WWP and the PLP. That would make one suspect that the split had more to do with some personality difference rather than principled political differences. Since that time they have diverged from one another though. Anyway, the PLP seems to have taken ANSWER with it. I think the WWP founded another similar coalition the name of which I forget. But because of the closeness between the PLP and ANSWER I would suspect that this has its origins in the PLP.
On 8/8/2017 9:10 PM, Miriam Vieni wrote:
ANSWER Coalition
Carl asked if I would post it. There’s a link to it in the email below.
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