reply to Ben Reid

[DAVID MURRAY <dmurray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

An amusing post Ben, I can now see how you got your academic job.

Interesting story, have you ever thought of taking up fiction writing? As to 
Bob Gould's influence on our NSW police minister, I think Bob contributed the 
line in his maiden address to the LC (state upper house equivalent to the 
senate), "If Karl Marx were alive today...he would be in the centre-unity 
faction of the ALP".

Its everyone else who is laughing Ben. Well the Dsp front claiming to be the 
workers party! Too bad workers don't join or even think of joining or even 
voting for it (in numbers more than 400 in our city). Not to mention the 
current soap opera surrounding your liquidation, akin to letting a firecracker 
off in a horse stable. For all the rest of the lefts faults we did not support 
a Ustasha front, or an open Nazi like robert pash. Well actually it [the DSP] 
looks like a tolerant regime, seeing as the DSP has continually rationalised 
its support for the extreme right, while condemning it today.

Intollerance to corruption (Pakistan), liquidationism (Scotland, Merseyside), 
accomodation to Scottish nationalism (Scotland), and refusing to hold 
conferences (USA), oh no how could I be so wrong in my political choices, may I 
please repent and reverse my political direction over the past five years since 
I left the DSP/Resistance?

As to your point on the brittish socialist alliance. Was forming them, 
contributing large amounts of money and contributing the highest votes a 
"wrecking opperation"? But if your saying that leaving when the SWP played the 
numbers game, couldn't this characterisation be applied to the DSP in the 
Sydney refugee movement? when other forces made the DSP unwelcome, and it threw 
in the towel and formed its own committee?

DAVE MURRAY
John Percy Appreciation Society


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