Baba Aye's

The following is a thread of the letter of resignation of J.Gaskie as Coordinator of the SWM (and self-suspension of his membership) in August 2009 and the organisation's response half a year later, after several attempts to win him back                                    *********************************** Comrades All, A time comes in the life of every organisation and individual, when it becomes critically important to take a step back and reflect on course of history as it is has impacted on one, as well as one has impacted on it. Such a time has come for me, as i believe it has also come for the organisation, our platform, our movement. A number of things have been developing over the last few years, accelerated by the dysfunction in the movement occassioned by the toll of the retreats suffered on various fronts of the struggle in which we had been pivotal and active. The strugg...

JG's posting below is definitely that which I have been most reluctant to respond to on this serve. A little background on this would suffice, to put the reason why in its apt perspective. Events of the 'Black Wednesday' exactly twenty years ago which signaled both the climax and the crushing of the anti-SAP revolt, led us to some conclusions on organising and organization. Ever since then, we have committed ourselves to building and providing leadership to the socialist platform of May, which today is the Socialist Workers' Movement.  I would have wished to keep my positions on the posting and having the first inkling of the below being JG's thinking, only through that same posting, off this serve. But it would, I believe be a passive, if not active form of political dishonesty and a strand of sectarianism, apart from the fact that it would have been downright unfair, to others whom I have had to engage with on similar views....including leading comrades fro...