"Brittle, Irrational and Childlike" - Response to Mark Fischer
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On 4 April the Weekly Worker newspaper published a letter from Weekly
Worker/CPGB full-time organiser Mark Fischer referring to me (but not
mentioning me by name).
Weekly Worker
The CPGB on Vestas: ignorant or sectarian?
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The Weekly Worker, published by the so-called "Communist Party of Great Britain" group, generally focuses its coverage obsessively on the activities of the far left.
Open letter to the left from the SWP; and the AWL's reply
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Open letter to the left from the SWP; and the AWL's reply
An open letter to the left from the Socialist Workers Party
It’s time to create a socialist alternative
Third period tankie CPGB upset
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Unwilling to debate the AWL in public, the so-called CPGB continues its snipping at us from the safe distance of its paper.
WW and the Israel/Iran debate: what I got wrong
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I got something wrong in my previous comments on the current Weekly Worker campaign - which consists of wriggling out of debate with AWL on Israel and Iran and at the same time claiming that we evade debate with them.
New evasions from Weekly Worker
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"Matgamna [Sean Matgamna of AWL] knows he would be forced to state openly that he believes an Israeli attack [on Iran] justified...", claims Mark Fischer in Weekly Worker 745 (13 November).
AWL-WW correspondence over a debate on Israel and Iran, Oct-Nov 2008
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Song of the Weekly Worker
I'm so small! But I'm poisonous too;
What I say is at best but half-true:
I spread gossip thin,
So they'll think I'm well in;
But I'm useful, torn up in the loo!
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In August AWL approached the Weekly Worker group for a debate on Israel and Iran. The WW group has wriggled out of this debate, while simultaneously, at the top of its voice, accusing AWL of refusing to debate with WW! Bizarre? Yes. But here's the correspondence since 14 October, so that readers can see for themselves that there is no fire behind the billowing masses of WW smoke on this question. MT.
Weekly Worker: The Case of the Gutless Libel-Merchants. Again on the Pretend "CPGB", Israel, and Iran
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Following the debate on 12 October on Israel and Iran between Sean Matgamna of AWL and Moshe Machover, AWL wrote to the Weekly Worker group proposing a debate between AWL and WW under a similar title ("Israel, Iran, and socialist politics" - the 12 October was "Israel, Iran, and the left").
Weekly Worker wriggling out again?
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As some readers will know, for nearly three months now the Weekly Worker has given over a large part of its coverage to high-pitched attacks on the AWL.
"CPGB": Time to tell the truth
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The pathetic intervention of the CPGB at the AWL-Machover on Sunday has been followed by an even more pathetic write up in its paper, the Weekly Worker (16 October).