From: "jurriaan bendien" <Jbendien-AT-globalxs.nl>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Finnegal slanders Sparts again and still has noprogram!
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 18:46:40 +0100


Finnegal writes:
 
> I hate all this Ireland is terribly backward shit. I and other Irish
people
> are  not here to play  modern primitives in your drama of good and evil.
> There are disgraceful restrictions on people's freedoms but Ireland's 
> modernisation has been uneven and complex and deserves more analysis
> than glib remarks like that.
> 
Hear, hear.  I can identify with that.  It's bloody racist if you ask me. 
I can tell a story about the Sparts from New Zealand.  Back in 1986 we
organised a conference in Christchurch to rally opposition to the wild
far-right economic policies of the Fourth Labour Government under David
("no nuke") Lange and Roger Douglas.  Well it was the first conference my
group had organised and so we were initially pretty flattered to be visited
by a Spartacist chap called Flynn and his side-kick all the way from
Australia.  However they had nothing to say on the issues of the
conference, ranted for ages about the World Revolution and accused Mandel
of selling out the revolution in Afghanistan, whereupon they sat down by
the stairs and proceeded to suck a bottle of whisky.  I thought this was
pathetic and it decided my attitude towards the International Spartacist
League.  Actually Mandel was so kind at the end of his life to debate with
these jokers in New York.  Why he did that I haven't the foggiest.

Cheers

Jurriaan


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