"Women need to join me and my other me's individualist affinity group so I... er, I mean, we can tell them it's a waste of time discussing anything on here so I don't think I'll bother posting here... at least for a few minutes."
I can't think of any mass demonstrations relating to events of 100 years ago.
I think it's laudable that you want to contribute to the movement by volunteering as a proofreader for the ACG, but would it not be simpler to just contact them directly rather than posting on here and hoping they see it?
In other countries, some dockers have boycotted all trade with the State of Israel. Is this something towards which we should work in Britain?
Well I'm in NZ not Britain but I'm trying to focus on supporting workers to organise to defend their terms and conditions and build power locally - if for instance getting workers who have some cross over with trade with Israel to build power for themselves included an opportunity for solidarity actions fine. If strong and relatively successful groups of workers like the Longshoremen can do it thats awesome. Would I let it distract me from more immediate local goals? No.
I do not think it the case that most of the people in the Palestine Solidarity protests are being distracted from organising class struggles.
Far too late wasn't it. Days past March 8th.Looks like a typo with the words "struggle against" missing. But I'm sure you know that already
charlie mowbray
Surprised you have the time to notice, now that the working class is rising due to the momentum behind you and your mate’s affinity group.
Tbf, I do reckon that, of the people currently involved in organising class struggle stuff in the UK, a reasonable proportion of them are probably really quite frazzled at the moment as a result of trying to balance some level of commitment to Palestine stuff on top of their existing workload. Although that's not necessarily to say that they'd be in a better state if they all just decided to respond to the ongoing genocide by going "well, nothing we can do".
Going back to this... can see where you're coming from, but also I reckon that the idea of being brutally strategic and unemotional with your priorities is perhaps something that can work, with a great deal of effort, for a tiny political micro-group, but I'm not convinced it can ever be the logic that animates a movement of tens of thousands. At the risk of just coming up with a theoretical argument for ambulance/tail-chasing, or independently reinventing the SWP, I reckon there is a strong case to be made that real strategic thinking has to consist of locating yourself within a specific context, which is inevitably going to include lots of people who are motivated about the things they're motivated about rather than the things you think they should be motivated about, and working out how to operate most effectively within that context, rather than this idea of strategy as something that can just float in some kind of disembodied way.
