POSTSCRIPT
Sometimes you don't know whether to laugh or cry with Class War. Our
most bitter rows have always been amongst ourselves, and the ones
during the production of this paper are no exception. After six
months of increasingly personalised arguments, the majority of London
Class War have decided to part company with the rest of us and have
gone their own way. We wish them luck. From the start, the members
concerned were suspicious of the ideas expressed in this issue of the
paper: while the overwhelming majority of the Federation see these
ideas as an exciting way of moving forward, they saw them as a
threat. In the end both sides realised that the situation had become
unworkable and they decided to walk out. Ironically all this has come
at a time when we are calling for an end to the often petty disputes
that beset the anarchist scene.
Blame as always lies on both sides - we do not pretend that we
have behaved like angels in pushing for our ideas. But in truth the
dispute had been brewing for some time and a walk-out was probably
the healthiest option. At the same time we are aware of no
fundamental political differences between ourselves and the comrades
who have left: in many ways the whole incident has simply
strengthened our argument about the weakness of the Federation and
the need to update our strategy. The spirit of this paper is that
revolutionaries in this country have no choice but to find ways of
working together. The dispute has obviously left wounds, but we hope
that these will heal sooner rather than later.
On to an open letter to the
revolutionaries