My annual report is now online (along with a substantial essay):
Conscious Forces Will Bring Us Certain Victory

...............How, in the coming period of intensified class struggle,
...............activists will use open communities and information war
...............to win ever-increasing attention and support and create
...............the conscious forces that will bring us certain victory

My Annual Report and the essay are posted here:
http://struggle.net/ben/2009/conscious_forces.htm

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Discussion of this essay
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POF-200 and -300 email lists: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pof-200/messages - Post # 1432 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pof-300/messages - Post # 2254	(pof-200): Les Evenchick of New Orleans read my "Ozymandias" reply to Stiofan (see below) and asked how we can create the mass organization we need. I replied (on pof-300).
RevLeft http://www.revleft.com/vb/conscious-forces-bring-t123043/index.html?p=1605819#post1605819	Two readers "thanked" my post (ie: gave it a "forum credit"). There was no substantive discussion but this lead me to post to a blog article that one of them had written. My reply was: "Practical program of work may revolve around information war"
Kasama "Threads" forum http://z11.invisionfree.com/Kasama_Threads/index.php?showtopic=983	Stiofan posted with "Ozymandias" argument. I replied. Luis made some more thoughtful posts and I replied. Topics included: the influence of social-democracy within Kasama, the need for humility and the need for a revolutionary mass organization.
Indymedia (Portland, Chicago, NY, SFBA, LA) - http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2009/11/395573.shtml - http://chicago.indymedia.org/newswire/display/88101/index.php - https://publish.nyc.indymedia.org/en/2009/11/108370.html - http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/11/23/18630182.php - http://la.indymedia.org/news/2009/11/232651.php

Table of Contents

The table of contents for my Annual Report and the essay are listed below.

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My annual report
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(1) What I have done in the past year
(2) What I plan to accomplish in the coming year
(3) Problems that came up and solutions that were developed

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Overview: Conscious Forces Will Bring Us Certain Victory
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A background of economic crisis and imperialist war
The objective factor
The subjective factor
The CPUSA was a revolutionary mass party
The degeneration of the CPUSA
Groundhog Day
The good news today -- conditions are maturing
The emergence of conscious forces
Ever-increasing amounts of oxygen
The hangman and the priest
.... (media control in modern society)
The emerging power of open communities
Conscious forces will focus on building
.... a healthy revolutionary movement
We are only as sick as our secrets
.... (ie: the need to speak out)
Conscious forces will be invincible
How open communities of struggle
.... will lead to the emergence of
.... a revolutionary mass organization
So how exactly will this happen?
My experience in four communities of struggle
-- 0 -- The RevLeft community
-- 1 -- The Media Weapon community-in-embryo
-- 2 -- The Seattle Anti-Imperialist Committee (SAIC)
-- 3 -- The local marxist study group
-- 4 -- The Kasama blog
Fiery collisions and eventual merger
Conclusion: the Alkali Lake Band of Indians