Some More Points

I am currently reading Bolshevik Tendency articles on the situation between Britain, Ireland and Northern Ireland. And apparently they do call for British troops out of Northern Ireland.

Also, from what I have observed. I think that the International Communist League has no trouble calling opponents cop, racist, cult, sociopath or even Nazi lovers yet the ICL, I think, seems to be exquisitely sensitive to criticism.

I also think that although the ICL can easily dodge the slings of arrows of reformists and centrist in dealing with Revolutionaries all they have, in my opinion, is slander and demagoguery.

One point of Andrew's I thought was particularly pernicious and cynical was his ludicrous implication that my opposition to the killing of Tracy Latimer, which I consider a hate crime, act of terror or lynching (call it what you will), that I am somehow alibiing Israel's barbaric treatment of the Palestinians (I think is nothing but a malicious sleight-of-hand). As I have said before, Latimer has never disavowed the Fascists that support him. Most Pro-Palestinian activists do disavow Fascists. And unlike what I think Andrew is claiming, I didn't actually call Latimer a Nazi or Fascist but criticized him for refusing to disavow the Fascists who support him.

Also, from what I understand the Zionists actually collaborated with the Nazis during the early stages of the Nazi era (although I am pretty sure the Zionist got persecuted themselves). A famous quote by prominent Zionist David Ben Gurion and a founding father of Israel (who has an airport named after him in Israel), that "if I [Ben Gurion] could save all Jews and sends them to Britain or save a third of them (letter the other two thirds die in the Nazi concentration camps) and send them to Israel I [Ben Gurion] would do the latter" (I don't know the exact wording, but this as I understand is essentially what he said). There are several books that cover this issue most notable being two books by Lenni Brenner called 51 Documents: The Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis as well as Zionism in the Age of Dictators. I think that Norman Finkelstein covers this issue in The Holocaust Industry: Exploitation in Jewish Suffering. The disability rights groups that are against Latimer being freed including Council of Canadians with Disabilties, BC Coalition for People with Disabilities, DisAbled Women's Network etc. do not nor have they ever worked with Nazis.

I am also don't I approve of the notion that I think the ICL has that they are the ONLY people that have earned the right to call themselves Trotskyist and that anyone who questions their supposed "authority" is "counterrevolutionary". Apparently Stalin labeled Trotsky and Trotskyists "counterrevolutionary" and that their criticisms of Stalinism could only serve a "counterrevolutionary" purpose. Well like, the Trotskyists before me who criticized Stalinism I say what is. Trotsky said "to speak the truth to the masses, no matter how bitter it may be" and the truth, at least as I see it, is that the ICL is DEAD as a force for revolution.

Comradely,
M.G.

P.S. I really don't get Andrew when he talked about the Bolshevik Tendency being my "cronies". As I have stated before, I am not a member of the Bolshevik Tendency which means I am certainly not heading there organization.