Re: Report from Ernie Tate

[Adam Levenstein <cleon42@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Xxxx Xxxxxx <xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It should be noted that this ban on internal tendencies selling their
>
> press in public is a condition not even the Labour Party attempted to
>
> impose on its factions. Moreover, it has been reported that the
> International Socialist Movement tendency of the SSP (of which Tommy
> Sheridan, Allan McCombs etc are members) does sell its publication,
> Frontlines, to the general public.

It's actually fairly reminiscent of the early days of the SWP (US).
After turning the Workers Party into a Trotskyist organization, they
dissolved it and merged into the Socialist Party. One of the reasons
they left (and formed the SWP) was that Norman Thomas' leadership would
not permit them to sell their paper.

Adam



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