The 101st Sectbourne Brigade at the Iraq Veterans Against the War
What a great summer for conventions! Be it Labor Notes, Service Employees International Union, Democratic, Republican or Iraq Veterans Against the War, mix some extra miracle whip into the pasta salad, slice a watermelon, and put the flask into a paper bag, because it's Convention Time!
No, the CP(F) will not be having it's planned Rocky Mountain regional convention, as that one collective who was going to host us broke up, that Jewish museum found out we're anti-Zionist and canceled our reservations, and those students couldn't get their act together to get the paperwork in on time. So, I guess we won't be able to pass Comrade Murphy's proposed law.
Well, in lieu of this, we have been plotting for the past month to have a fractiously solid bloc at the Iraq Veterans Against the War convention coming up this weekend in the Twin Cities (which we love, since we believe they were once a singly city but broke up over an area code. We could be wrong, but we have Comrade O'Reilly fact-checking.)
This convention will be a big deal, not just because of steady growth in that now four year old organization, but because our rivals in the International Socialist Organization are pushing a big slate of candidates for those positions on the national board that are open. The more independent-minded but no less radical IVAWers (pronounce that) are also pushing a slate that would try to wrest the group from total ISO control. And either faction could split if the other wins.
Well, in honor of this, our Fractious Caucus will be forming in the moments before the convention begins, and we will pursue a third slate of five comradely veterans, each of whom will call for the IVAW to split their separate ways. In the event that we lose, we will consolidate our forces into the caucus (many of whom were drill sergeants or Coast Guard), and plan other means of demoralizing the troops (ahem, anti-war veterans) until they all go our way.
Because our Party sees no need for a united front of anti-war soldiers, fighting both for their and their compatriots' healthcare and tuition benefits, proving that many opponents of these grisly wars are among the loudest in opposition, and giving a united voice to those who have direct experiences having fought in the war. We think that they should all march to our orders, and if any of them don't, stand down and give us twenty!
So, be ready for us, the ISO, and the state agents to be very present at the IVAW convention with every plan of co-optation or division, and if you don't like it, step on a mine, and take that in your pipe and smoke it!
No, the CP(F) will not be having it's planned Rocky Mountain regional convention, as that one collective who was going to host us broke up, that Jewish museum found out we're anti-Zionist and canceled our reservations, and those students couldn't get their act together to get the paperwork in on time. So, I guess we won't be able to pass Comrade Murphy's proposed law.
Well, in lieu of this, we have been plotting for the past month to have a fractiously solid bloc at the Iraq Veterans Against the War convention coming up this weekend in the Twin Cities (which we love, since we believe they were once a singly city but broke up over an area code. We could be wrong, but we have Comrade O'Reilly fact-checking.)
This convention will be a big deal, not just because of steady growth in that now four year old organization, but because our rivals in the International Socialist Organization are pushing a big slate of candidates for those positions on the national board that are open. The more independent-minded but no less radical IVAWers (pronounce that) are also pushing a slate that would try to wrest the group from total ISO control. And either faction could split if the other wins.
Well, in honor of this, our Fractious Caucus will be forming in the moments before the convention begins, and we will pursue a third slate of five comradely veterans, each of whom will call for the IVAW to split their separate ways. In the event that we lose, we will consolidate our forces into the caucus (many of whom were drill sergeants or Coast Guard), and plan other means of demoralizing the troops (ahem, anti-war veterans) until they all go our way.
Because our Party sees no need for a united front of anti-war soldiers, fighting both for their and their compatriots' healthcare and tuition benefits, proving that many opponents of these grisly wars are among the loudest in opposition, and giving a united voice to those who have direct experiences having fought in the war. We think that they should all march to our orders, and if any of them don't, stand down and give us twenty!
So, be ready for us, the ISO, and the state agents to be very present at the IVAW convention with every plan of co-optation or division, and if you don't like it, step on a mine, and take that in your pipe and smoke it!
posted by Bayano at 11:45 AM
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This is still awesome even two years later.
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