Socialist Aotearoa has about 40 members at the moment, with another 30 or so supporters on our contact loops. So although considerably less than RAM's 3000, these activists can be seen on picket lines, demos and forums week in, week out.

As far as "broad" left unity goes, Socialist Aotearoa has members, supporters and organisers in
Unite, the EPMU and the NDU. It regularly meets up with comrades from the Alliance, the Workers Party, the Auckland Anarchist Network and many of the green left. It co-hosted a meeting with the AAN featuring Tino activist Sina Ana Brown Davis, and is co-sponsoring a March Against Low Pay with other socialist groups and the trade union left following a successful forum on "Time For A Pay Revolt".

It is unfair for our RAM supporting friend above to attribute every anonymous critique of RAM to Socialist Aotearoa's Joe Carolan and his "cronies". There are many other radical organisations who are critical of RAM- the Workers Party, the Anarchist community, the Green Party etc. Before people throw stones, they should be careful where they aim them, especially if they are surprised that press releases from a "broad" left political party pick up an adverse comment or two on an anti-capitalist website like INdy.

Yours sincerely,
the Devil Incarnate

Joe C