Beyond Common Sense - LaRouche

“Labor Committees” are promoted as an organisation tobelong to and, if passing the initial tests, one becomes a cadre inthe International Caucus of Labor Committees. The establishmentof the Labor Committees as a national organisation occurredduring January 1969. This was chiefly a defensive measure asLaRouche was concerned with the possibility that the looseassociation might be seen as a target for provocateurs. Thus inthe late 1960s it was better to have an organisation for defensivereasons. A formal general organisation was established in 1974,however, the Labor Committees ceased to function as a formalmembership organisation by about 1978 (no one seems to knowwhen precisely) and then became a “loose internationalphilosophical association.” (52) Political activity was conductedmore or less ad hoc through formation of politicalaction or electoralsupportbodies.According to LaRouche, writing in his 1986 autobiography,his political organisation, the ICLC, was set up in 1969 andabolished in 1979. Somewhere between 1986 and 1991 ICLCmeetings were again being held.Within Australia, people are still asked to join the ICLC. Nomembership fees, no filling out of forms, no meetings, no officebearers,no elections. All that is asked for is immense personalsacrifices and submission. Membership is granted on a whimand taken away just as arbitrarily, as the trial of John Simpsonshows.This amorphous, vague and undefined structure is useful.Without a formal structure there can be no accountability, no needto give explanations or argue a case. The entire organisation isthus under the thumb.In the LaRouche movement in Australia, and in its captive theCEC, there has never been a lawful general meeting, an executivemeeting, shareholders meetings or directors meeting of theassociated “structures.” The entire business is conducted on adaily phone conversation with orders given from Leesburg. Theauthoritarian nature of the “organisation” has led to massive