<div>Doug H and Travis are right. Peter Tatchell is a Labour Party loyalist first, last and always; any stick to beat the extra-Labour left is fair play. And if Doug Ireland has a fault--and I like him a lot--it's his knee-jerk contempt for third party and hard left efforts here at home. I tend to line up with Ireland on the issues these days, too, but I don't share his biliousness toward those to my left or his need to Trot bait. The Socialist Workers Party in Britain may be playing with fire by aligning with the Muslim Arab Brotherhood--and that is no given-- but we're not going to know that by the sort of sideshow exercise that Tatchell orchestrated.
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/26/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Travis Fast</b> <<a href="mailto:tfast@yorku.ca">tfast@yorku.ca</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">More like the PC left (thirdway) once again was used as an axe to take<br>out those who would dare come at them from the left.
<br><br>Brian Charles Dauth wrote:<br><br>> Dear List:<br>><br>>> You're a bit late to the party, but I think this article did<br>><br>> a good job at debunking this<br>><br>> It was the typical apologia from the homophobic left.
<br>> Nothing new.<br>><br>> Brian Dauth<br>> Queer Buddhist Resister<br>><br>> ___________________________________<br>> <a href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
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<br>-- <br>________________________________________<br>`And these words shall then become<br>Like oppression's thundered doom<br>Ringing through each heart and brain,<br>Heard again -- again -- again--<br>`Rise like Lions after slumber
<br>In unvanquishable number--<br>Shake your chains to earth like dew<br>Which in sleep had fallen on you--<br>Ye are many -- they are few.'<br>--------Shelley, "The Mask of Anarchy:<br>Written on the Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester" [1819]
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