Re: Tariq Ali

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:

> On the other hand, we should take note of the fact that Ali says he
> would be delighted to see Tony Blair defeated in Britain.  I'm sure
> that the British equivalent of the US Anybody But Bush/Nader crowd
> are busy lining up support for the Labour Party on the grounds that
> it's the lesser of two evils.

My New Press editor, Colin Robinson, just told me that the UK
political scene is even more depressing than the U.S. because there
is absolutely no alternative to Blair, drawing an explicit contrast
with Kerry v. Bush. Of course, Colin used to be an editor at Verso,
and, like Tariq, might be suspected of that creeping NLR "liberalism."

Doug