Of the 1993 resignations from the NLR board
>The events outlined above have already led to several
>resignations from the Editorial Board: those of Patrick Camiller,
Camiller co-edited a book on the European left with Perry Anderson, so no great hostility there. ...
> Norman Geras,
well, good riddance to the innately miserable author of The Contract of
Mutual Indifference (Verso, I believe), and even more so the Stalinist
hack...
> Monty
>Johnstone
...
>
>We, the undersigned members of the Editorial Board of New Left
>Review, find the proceedings which have brought NLR to this
>point intolerable and quite inappropriate for a socialist journal.
>With regret, therefore, we are resigning from the Board.
>
...
>Peter Dews,
(Wrote a couple of good, if impenetrable books on postmodernism)
...
>Quintin Hoare,
This is Branka Magas' partner, no? Author of virulently anti-Serb
articles.
...
>Branka Magas,
yes well
>Doreen Massey,
Marxist geographer of British deindustrialisation
>Robin Murray,
The neo-Ricardian economist at the GLC.
>Mike Rustin,
Communist Party, I think
> Kate Soper,
best keep quiet about Ms Soper.
>Hilary Wainwright,
Editor of Red Pepper - too worthy to be true.
...
>
>24 February 1993
Would it be to unkind to say that this clear-out was an improvement to the NLR EB? -- Jim heartfield