<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><DIV>That combination of rising <STRONG>youthful passion</STRONG> and political experience with mass radical action represents a <STRONG>potent mass base</STRONG> for a new US left political formation to emerge.
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<P><STRONG>Organization is what the US left lacks.</STRONG> Not issues, not members, not a wide public audience: the US left now has all of them in abundance. Indeed, the economic crisis that exploded in 2008 – now becoming a social crisis because the "recovery" bypassed the majority that needed it most – has only enhanced that abundance. Yet, a deeply rooted and continuously nurtured aversion to unified organization undermines the US left's social influence and collective action at every turn. </P>
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<P><A href="http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/14-2">http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/14-2</A></P></DIV></div><br>
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