With people obsessed with exposing the DSP you damned if you
do and you are damed if you don't.

First, Bob Gould slams the DSP national leadership for
supposedly forcing the hapless comrades in Perth to do
something they supposedly did not want to do.

I replied that the DSP leadership would take responsibility
but also agreed with him that the article should have dealt
with the fact that Bill Game is a socialist trade unionist.
The article was wanting (not a "big error") and but then
Gould accuses me of dodging responsibility.

I recall on another list getting a lecture from someone else
who, like Gould, subscribes to the idea that the DSP is
tarnished by some Zinovievist orginal sin, about how nice it
would be if the DSP admitted that it made mistakes. Well
there it was an admission of fallibilty. But it only drew
more condemnation.

Printing Bill Game's letter a sop and offering him an
article was "adding insult to injury". Should Green Left do
it or not?

As to whether it was right for a DSP comrade to join (our
comrade did not initiate this team) the ETU Recharge team or
not , we obviously don't share Gould's assessment so we will
have to wait and see. If the Recharge team wins and the WA
ETU shifts to the right then we will be proved wrong. If a
victorious Recharge team helps consolidate the militant wing
of the trade union movement then we will have made the right
decision.

Peter Boyle