On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 14:40:26 -0400 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
writes:
> I've just been informed (by someone who wants to remain anonymous)
> that Barbara Epstein resigned from the board of MR because of the
> nonsense that Yoshie has been posting to MRZine about Iran. When she
>
> made her complaints known to the board, they made it clear that they
>
> supported Yoshie's work, so Epstein felt that she had no choice but
> to
> quit.
Should anyone really be surprised by this? Yoshie's positions, whether one agrees with them or not, are not really that far out of line with MR's traditional outlook which has tended to place great emphasis on anti-imperialism. Remember too that the magazine went through a Maoist or quasi-Maoist phase back in the 1960s and 1970s. And in any case it should be obvious that if the board of MR had strong disagreements with Yoshi they would have relieved her of her duties as MRZine editor a long time ago.
> She's not interested in campaigning against what she still
> regards as a venerable institution, but she feels that Yoshie's
> position on Iran has so discredited the organization that she
> couldn't
> abide a formal association anymore.
>
> Doug
>
>
>
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