What Real Party-Building Looks like

[North Star]

A couple of excellent articles from Socialist Worker give a sense of what a mass-based radical/socialist third party looks like in practice:

http://socialistworker.org/2012/12/19/where-is-syriza-headed

http://socialistworker.org/2012/12/19/debating-the-future-in-greece

Also worth noting is the latest round of electoral victories by the multi-tendency PSUV, led by Hugo Chavez:

http://links.org.au/node/3149

Without such a parties/initiatives here, we will continue to get our clocks cleaned. Examples: Obama is gunning for Social Security and Michigan passed a union-busting "right to work" bill.

- Binh

[Louis Proyect]

On 12/19/12 12:41 PM, North Star wrote:
> *A couple of excellent articles from /Socialist Worker/ give a sense of
> what a mass-based radical/socialist third party looks like in practice:*
>
> http://socialistworker.org/2012/12/19/where-is-syriza-headed
>
> http://socialistworker.org/2012/12/19/debating-the-future-in-greece

Me and Mine will be going out to a Syriza fundraiser in Astoria on
Friday. Potluck dinner plus live Greek music. Sounds like fun!

[North Star]

Send me the info. I'll pass it around to any SYRIZA-curious comrades here.

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[Louis Proyect]

Dear friends,

Some interpret the Mayan calendar as predicting the end of the world on
Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. We, however, would like to see an end to the
world of austerity, unemployment, poverty and attacks on working people
-- and the birth of a New World, one of social justice.

In that spirit, we invite you to celebrate with us the end of the year,
with a friendly potluck* dinner and live Greek music.

Let us know if you would like to join us.

RSVP at frand...@gmail.com

Friday, December 21, 2012 � 6:30 p.m.
Panthessalian Society Asclepios
28-52 31st Street, Astoria
(between 30th Ave. and Newtown Ave.)
N or Q trains to 30th Avenue Station

*Everyone brings a little something to the party -- food, drink,
dessert, etc. If possible, indicate in your RSVP email what you choose
to contribute.

[Eric Ribellarsi]

I'd like to writ a response to this piece soon. It is riddled with assumptions that "unite the left" is somehow more radical than making a revolution. It represents a certain set of assumptions that groups like DEA, who advocate an ANTARSYA style "unite the left" line, are somehow more radical than efforts to form a broad united front of forces against the Troika, to overthrow the Troika. It is an old set up assumptions based on the idea that left apparatuses are more advanced than the people themselves. In the final analysis, this piece is a snipe against SYRIZA being transformed into a mass movement of the people over a conglomeration of left apparatuses.

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Louis Proyect <ln...@panix.com> wrote:

Dear friends,

Some interpret the Mayan calendar as predicting the end of the world on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. We, however, would like to see an end to the world of austerity, unemployment, poverty and attacks on working people -- and the birth of a New World, one of social justice.

In that spirit, we invite you to celebrate with us the end of the year, with a friendly potluck* dinner and live Greek music.

Let us know if you would like to join us.

RSVP at frand...@gmail.com

Friday, December 21, 2012 • 6:30 p.m.

Panthessalian Society Asclepios
28-52 31st Street, Astoria
(between 30th Ave. and Newtown Ave.)
N or Q trains to 30th Avenue Station

*Everyone brings a little something to the party -- food, drink, dessert, etc. If possible, indicate in your RSVP email what you choose to contribute.