Tasks of the Public Faction
Subtitle: some specific proposals for consideration by the Conference
By: by Steve Bloom, Dianne Feeley, and Frank Lovell
Language: eng
Subjects: Socialism; Political action committees
Notes: The political framework and general tasks -- Organizational structure -- Periodicals and literature -- Some specific assignments.

"We must clearly reaffirm our present character as a public faction of the Socialist Workers Party and consciously combat any tendency to prematurely move toward the creation of a new rival political party."-- Page [1].

"The specific proposals listed below flow from the general line of the Bloom-Feeley-Lovell perspectives resolution which stresses the need for the public faction to fully clarify before the membership of the SWP and the Fourth International the unprincipled split engineered by the Barnes leadership. The question of our public press and our mass work must be placed within the context of the central task, which is to finish the unfinished business of exposing -- and if possible defeating -- the liquidationist and destructive course the Barnes leadership is imposing on the party. Whatever differences we may have over how to assess our current situation in a general sense ... agreement on these specific tasks will be an important step toward building a united organization that can move forward." -- Page [1].

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