[Marxism] Alan Wood on the assassination of Benazir Bhutto

[james.irldaly at ntlworld.com]

I agree with Ed and Joaquin.  Alan Wood's manifesto on Ireland says that in the 1968 civil rights movement Catholic and Protestant trade unionists should have joined to form a militia to fight the RUC.  One reviewer called that "screamingly funny in its absurdity."  -- J. D.
> 
> From: "Ed George" <edgeorge at fastmail.fm>
> Date: 2007/12/28 Fri PM 08:29:47 GMT
> To: marxism at lists.econ.utah.edu
> Subject: Re: [Marxism] Alan Wood on the assassination of Benazir Bhutto
> 
> Pretty much par for the course for this imperialist economist sect, I
> would have thought.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Joaquín Bustelo writes (with reason):
> 
> Alan Woods says, about the murder of Bhutto: <<Who was responsible? The
> identity of the murderers is not yet known. But when I asked the
> comrades in
> Karachi, the reply was immediate: "it was the mullahs". The dark forces
> of
> counterrevolution in countries like Pakistan habitually dress up in the
> garb
> of Islamic fundamentalism.>>
> 
> I found this part of Woods's article disquieting. 
> 
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