[fse-esf] Democracy demands political parties' participation.. and.. I forgot the rest

[Jon Cloke]

Same old same old.... Everybody knows that political parties adopt 
pseudonyms to 'cover' their participation and the fact that they do so 
speaks volumes about the dishonesty of those parties and their 'leaders', 
not their openness or democratic nature. The fact that the Turkish SF 
chooses to ignore the charter of principles and the wishes of large numbers 
of the participants in the ESF is testimony only to the fact that the 
Turkish SF is dominated by those parties that revel in authoritarian 
posturing, not to its' democratic attitudes.

Limiting the official roles that parties can play in the ESF is not a bunch 
of people hiding their heads in the sand and pretending that the parties 
aren't there, it's a bunch of people who've been bulldozered by the 
anti-democratic, manichaean left time and time again in their own countries 
and who understand that officializing party participation in the ESF will 
allow the same thing to happen on an international scale. Some say it 
already has, but they're wrong - besides, it's quite funny watching Alex C., 
Jonathan N. or whoever forget which of their one-person front organizations 
they're supposed to be representing as they pretend once again that they 
enjoy a vast horde of organized support in their own countries.

I could write these all night, me....

General Secretary Jon Cloke,
Organized Front for Voluntary Mediocrity,
UK - East Midlands Region