Please be aware that the SWP/Respect is trying to takeover the CACC: at the Climate Camp, the convenor of CACC, Phil Thornhill and another person I recognized as a long standing member of the SWP talked about how the campaign was to be a ‘broad brush’ campaign with little room for controversy or debate as to maximise the numbers. Further, the emphasis will be on continual mass marches, etc. In effect, a branding of the campaign very similar to the STWC. They were already promoting the November 4th protest in London at the Time to Go event. What’s wrong with that? some would say, well despite the numbers on the Time To Go demo and their undoubted logistical skills STWC is now basically a shell functioning just to promote the ideas and values of the SWP and their fellow travellers. No debate on supporting groups such as the Basra Oil workers who largely oppose the occupation in Iraq but also the so called ‘resistance’ no debate about key STWC members supporting Hezbollah in the recent Lebanon conflict. Being at the climate camp, an amazing experience, has made me realize that climate change and its consequences are now the major threat facing mankind and that it is too important to be hijacked by groups, despite the hard work of Phil (though he seems to be too close to Respect for my liking), more concerned about their egos or political ideology and which will try to close down debate, ‘celebritise’ the issues and just promote marches from A-B.


Reference

The Campaign Against Climate Change looks set to grow in 2006, writes John Downes. But where is it going programmatically?
CACC is part of the Global Climate Campaign, which is coordinating protests internationally in order to influence the UN climate talks in Nairobi, Kenya, from November 6-17. CACC organised the demonstration in London on December 3 2005 to coincide with the first meeting of parties to the Kyoto protocol held in Montreal.

 http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/611/cacc.htm

Any evidence of your claim? In my local group we are mainly Green Party, Friends of the Earth and anarchists, I went to the national conference - a few SWP there and they have made a good input but hardly a case of taking over and hardly represented in huge numbers

As a newly converted Green I should warn you that the CPGB who you link to have the same line on Climate Change as George Bush - that is they deny that it is happening and attack Campaign against Climate Change on the basis that Climate Change is a "natural phenomenon"!!!