July 03, 2005

Open letter to Counterpunch

The link in the headline is to Tony Greenstein's response to an article that appeared in Counterpunch some time ago now, to which he was denied a right of reply. The surprising feature of the original article is that whilst it makes some general points it consists mostly of an attack on Tony Greenstein personally. But please read both article in full. I suggest you start with Counterpunch and then read Tony's response.

Just as an aside, this spat points to only a small part of the can of worms that the SWP's hosting of Gilad Atzmon has opened up. Among some people, the SWP will have given confidence and credibility to an overt anti-semite. Among others they have undermined their own credibility, in some cases, in the eyes of their own members. I'll be interested to hear what some of the participants in Marxism 2005 have to say about this. I'll be very surprised if the SWP itself doesn't come in for criticism from its own platform.

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