Re: Titbit

Date: 14th Feb '02

Name: D>Hilliard

First of all there is no such beast as 'IWCA/RA' or 'RA/IWCA' for that matter. The IWCA has a strategy and goals and a membership independent of RA. RA obviously supports the strategy in the same way it supported and promoted a militant anti-fascist line within AFA.
The IWCA is a community based organisation. It's function is to fill the political vacuum in working class areas: 'working class rule in working class areas'. Building up support in any working class area has to be done - methodically over a period of years - not - as you seem to suggest in less than three months in the run up to the local elections. The last thing the IWCA would ever do is parachute into any area in an attempt at a quick fix. It is simply not equipped to do that.
Apart from that, what the Left as a whole have got to get into their heads that there are no such things as quick fixes any longer.
Sure when the NF/BNP had a policy of 'march and grow' AFA could destroy months of painstaking work by them building up support and membership in a given area in ten devestating minutes.

But as we have been telling everyone on it appears sometimes a daily basis for the last seven years - those days are over.

If the BNP are targeting Dagengham etc where is the surprise? If you care too look a little deeper the IWCA has its own target areas. As has been pointed out before in the run-up to May this will largely be a battle by proxy.

*It's just a thought but if the BNP are 'sitting ducks' as you suggest (groups of 20) surely the NP group will be delighted with the opportunity to destroy the BNP's electoral chances, by what was it one of them said: 'associating the BNP with violence'?

Failing that you might also try the Socialist Alliance or even the ANL. As the never tire of telling us the BNP is 'tiny'.

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