[mobglob-discuss] Towards freedom: The G8 and beyond

[Macdonald Stainsby]

Garth Mullins <garth at tao.ca> said:

 
> In Vancouver, we have sat by while soft racists with organizational 
ties infiltrate
> our ranks. This must end.
> 
> g
> 

Agreed, and very strongly. The best approach we can take is to, in the 
case of the Larouchite fascists and now these AGAN/Nazi types, is to 
come up with a Vancouver (or larger) wide unwritten policy on how we 
deal with this kind of garbagee. The reason is simple: too often in 
situations like this, a handful of people are the only ones who are 
actually willing to take on these kinds head first, and what we end up 
with are a few isolated (but not alone) activists that are easily 
marked by the fascist and neo-fascist forces for reprisal. There are 
more than a few good anti-fascists in town who have been under attack 
in their lives- becaue they operated in small numbers to deal with the 
sludge crawling under our movement.

I suggest that we coordinate a meeting to deal with this, and we be 
very careful about how we do anything: We also are facing new forms of 
state repression at the exact same time as all of these factors start 
to come into play, and we cannot afford to react to that with mass 
paranoia either. The balance is very tricky. We cannot build a culture 
of security that excludes people needlessly from our ranks, even less 
so now that our movement is in retreat and needing a good recharger. 
Nonetheless, as Garth points out, we are in a vacuum situation that 
allows us to be much more easily targetted by racist filth -- and to 
resist that we will need to learn from one another and come up with 
clear plans. Larouchite scum have been joining ELP, attending G8 
Whistler demos, anti-Campbell rallies at the Art Gallery and even anti-
war conferences at UBC. AGAN (the NA) have now clearly been right in 
the thick of our movement, trying to play off confusion and (perhaps) 
trying to capitalise on it to recruit and/or cause unneccessary scrums 
with no clear point. That, and that rag the "Radical" is continually 
pushed by even some of our "own" , both here in Vancouver and Calgary- 
despite its previous publishing of anti-immigrant diatribes from far 
far rightist Paul Fromm and anti-semitic conspiranoid David Icke (who 
also thinks lizard people from outerspace run the world), among other 
things. It also interviewed anti-woman terrorist Gordon Watson, but we 
have members in and around us who think that this is a matter of "free 
speech" (the Nazis the world over use this as their last resport, when 
they are show to be what they are). These things need immediatte 
resolution. We should try to get together as many of our ranks- from 
every organisation-- to share their experiences witrh these 
infiltrators, before our own get hurt. 

Macdonald