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[Greg Adler]

Stuart Munckton is the DSP member who took the opportunity to attack me and
make false accusations against me after I had been removed from the Green
Left Weekly discussion and therefore had no chance to reply to him before
the audience to which he made those accusations.

I don't place personal responsibility on Stuart for this act of political
cowardice. He is merely the unfortunate result of a miseducation coming up
through the junior ranks of the DSP.

There he has learnt that the distinction between a respected working class
fighter such as Tommy Sheridan who has come under attack from Rupert
Murdoch's press and the forces of the law and  those forces such as the
majority of the SSP leadership who have  aided in that attack by what at the
very least began as gross political incompetence and a negligent attitude
towards protecting their cadre against defamation and police interference
and developed into a full-blown co-operation with an attempt at legalised
lynching -this distinction is just a bit of a furore .

Everything will settle down and if reprobates like jscotlive who use the
good old workers' term scab to correctly the characterise the role of the
SSP in this disgraceful episode or myself for quoting the terminology I hear
regularly in my work as a criminal defence lawyer i.e. the labelling of
police informers as dogs can't get with the program that"s just too bad.

As a matter of noting what Alanis Morrisette would call irony in my
penultimate posting to the GLW list I supported Stuart against a nasty
attack against him but refrained from attacking the person who had made that
attack as he had-in my view justifiably- been removed from the list. But
dignity and principle are not really the attributes necessary to progress in
the DSP in these wonderful days.

Greg Adler
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Stuart Munckton <stuartmunckton at gmail.com>wrote:

> >
> > Reply:
> >
> > What a joke this is. They win 43 votes more than Solidarity and you'd
> think
> > they'd won the seat.
>
>
> http://www.scottishsocialistparty.org/new_stories/glasgoweast/result.html
>
> Actually if you read the account, it spends most of its time celebrating
> how
> New Labour was punished. It is only towards the very end that they even get
> around to discussing the socialist vote.
>
> And, when they do, it highlights what sticks out like a sore thumb - that a
> united vote would have seen, despite all of the other factors pulling
> against a socialist vote, that a united socialist vote would have
> replicated
> the previous SSP vote and beaten the Liberal Democrats
>
> And it makes the point about how damaging divisions like this are.
>
>
> > I won't attempt to point out the obvious - i.e., that
> > with  two candidates with the last name Curran, one of them the SSP
> > candidate and
> > one  New Labour, there was always going to be an element of confusion.
> No,
> > I
> > won't  point this out as that would be churlish.
>
>
> Yes, we agree.
>
>
> >
> > Reply:
> >
> > The SSP are now and will forever be known as scabs.
>
>
> In time this furore will pass, as the actual needs of new challenges in the
> class struggle take precedence. Maybe you wont get over it, but the needs
> of
> the class struggle will increasingly demand greater unity. Hopefully,
> people
> on different sides of this current dispute wont allow sentiments like this
> one to get in the way.
>
> Stuart
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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