Weekly Worker

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

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.

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.

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.