[Marxism] British Foreign Secretary flaunts... Leninist / anti-Trotskyist credentials!

["Ben Halligan" <B.Halligan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

make of it what you will...
 
letter in yesterday's independent (london) newspaper:
 
 
dear comrade editor:
 
in his report on president arafat's funeral ceremony in cairo, robert fisk
uttered such a malicious libel against me that i am certain that even the
late george carman QC would have taken my case without a fee.
 
mr fisk called me an "old trot". there is a very long list of old trots who
really were trots who will be as outraged as me by this calumny. (these
types can usually now be found in the City, appearing on quiz shows or
ranting in certain national newspapers.)
 
whatever other frailties i may have (many), i have been consistent in my
opposition to trotskyism and the false consciousness it engenders. (i was
taught to spot a trot at 50 yards in 1965 by mr bert ramelson, yorkshire
industrial organiser of the communist party.)
 
yours fratnerally,
jack straw
 
ps: further reading. isaac deutscher: trotsky (3 vols). left wing communism,
an infantile disorder, v i lenin 1919 (a prescient warning about trotskyist
adventurism)
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