[lbo-talk] Notes on the UFPJ Conference (June 6-8, Chicago)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Jun 13 17:17:18 PDT 2003


Michael Pugliese wrote:


> Given the UK Stop The War Coalition being dominated by the UK SWP
>which, as the Weekly Worker of the CPGB has spent considerable
>coverage and polemics on, has a very solicitous alliance with the
>MAB, the Muslim Alliance of Britain, theologically Wahhabiite and
>full of the most blatent anti-semitism, I'm not surprised.
> The Weekly Worker and the publications of the Alliance for Workers
>Liberty are read by some of the old Trotskyists in Soli. That you
>weren't aware of either a while back...well, I'm not surprised.
>http://www.google.com/searchq=Stop+The+War+Coalition+Muslim+Alliance+of+Britain+Weekly+Worker
> http://www.observer.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,901298,00.html
>The Left's unholy alliance with religious bigotry
>
>Nick Cohen ( Cruel Britannia by Nick Cohen Verso Books )
>Sunday February 23, 2003

Concerning Cohen, a friend writes:


>Cohen is a Hitchensesque apostate (with an equally capacious appetite
>for liquor - not that there's anything wrong with that) who I wouldn't trust
>further than I could throw.



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