Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 06:08:00 +0100 (BST)
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Scott=20Hamilton?= <s_h_hamilton-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: Taliban apologetics (bullshit)


 
I am really > pissed
> off at the vanguard left and their positions on this
> question and lash out very quickly.

I think it's important tho to grasp the actual
positions involved before you lash out. 
I have to admit that I have been guilty of simplifying
these problems myself, in my posts to this list about
critical support.
As it happens, I don't actually see the CWG's position
as being really any different to Chris' - somehow
they're trying to balance support for the defence of
Afghanistan with condemnation of the Taleban. It's a
tricky balancing act, and I don't pretend to know how
to carry it off perfectly myself. 
I wonder whether the groups you excoriate really do
hold to positions similar to the CWG's - certainly the
ISO, America's biggest 'vanguard organisation', would
not touch their line with a bargepole. Don't know
about the Workers World party tho.
One group the coalition I'm involved in here in
Auckland - the Anti imperialist Coalition - does
support is the Labour Party of Pakistan. This group
held a demo in Lahore the other day which was both
anti-US and anti-fundamentalist. They got 1,000 people
and were stopped by the cops. We're looking at ways of
giving them some sort of assistance in what is a very
difficult situation.

Cheers
Scott
 


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THR-AT-LL, NZ's class struggle anarchist paper http://www.freespeech.org/thrall/
THIRD EYE, a Kiwi lib left project, at http://www.geocities.com/the_third_eye_website/
and 'REVOLUTION' magazine, a Frankfurt-Christchurch production, http://cantua.canterbury.ac.nz/%7Ejho32/

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