Darren Well, no not quite –
Darren
Well, no not quite – SPOPEN is for party members only. WORLDINCOMMON, on the other hand, is for anyone who perceives themselves to be part of the non-market anti-statist sector including, of course, WSM folk. I suppose the equivalent of SPOPEN would be the COMMONER forum which is the internal forum of the World in Common Group and only members of the group are on this particular forum. Incidentally, WSM members are of course welcome to join the group which is in no sense a political party in competition with the WSM. Some people in WiC are active in other organisations and so it should be. WiC is just an unbrella organisation for the broad non market anti statist sector
What I was suggesting as one option – no 1 above – was to change the terms of reference of the WSM forum so that it would be similar to the terms of refrence of the WORLDINCOMMON forum. In other words, non WSMers could continue on it but not people outside the non market anti statist sector. Thats one option . The other is to keep the WSM forum as a completely open forum. If thats what you want to do then i have suggested some ways in which to deal with the problem of the anarcho capitalists on the forum
Ray
As I understand it, the WSM does not belong to just the SPGB but all the companion parties. I would imagine it is a good idea to have some overarching fourm of some sort for the entire WSM. The format may be a bit old fashioned, as you suggest but then I remember some months ago urging that WSM forum should change over to the format used by REVLEFT which I think is vastly superior in so many ways – not least because the sheer number of facilities available on it . For example you would have your own personal page which allows all sorts of interactions to happen on a one to one basis. Also special interest groups can be set as well which could be quite useful e.g. people interested in , say, Marxian economics or environmental issues could set up subgroups catering for these interests. Have a look at REVLEFT and see what you think..(Of course, its no longer possible to join REVLEFT but thats another matter)
Robin