Papers: Weekly Worker: UnwarrantedPapers: Weekly Worker: Unwarranted
Click above to turn pageIan was a passionate critic of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty, and particularly their politics on the middle east: not, it must be said, without reason. However, where I thought the AWL were merely wrong, he believed that they were motivated by anti-Arab prejudice. This wasn't a view I could subscribe to, and in discussion while some supported Ian, others felt as I did, and decided to co-sign a letter of criticism.
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Comrade Donovan's article 'Consistent democracy after Saddam Hussein' contained the line "It is quite obvious that the AWL doesn't really like Arabs very much, and does not regard them as having much in the way of national rights".
While we would not subscribe to the AWL's politics on Israel/Palestine, we nevertheless view their arguments as merely mistaken, and not born out of a dislike of Arabs.
As CPGB members we view this as an unwarranted extrapolation from their argument, and would therefore wish to disassociate ourselves from it.
Manny Neira
Lee Rock
Steve Cooke