Pro-War Lefties at I.C.A London

petroleuse | 07.02.2007 19:20

Yes the usual suspects of the new breed of ex-lefties will debate whether the war in Iraq is a continuation of the radical spirit of the French May 1968 events.

"What's Left of the Left?
12 February 2007
The generation of activists and thinkers who made up the New Left have recently spread out in very different intellectual directions; some of them joined forces with the New Labour project, while others supported intervention in Iraq. Was the war in Iraq, and before that NATO's interventions in the Balkans, a continuation of the universalist and democratic spirit of 1968, or an abandonment of its principles? Where can those principles find a home in a very different political landscape? Speakers: Martin Kettle, writer and former chief political leader writer for The Guardian; Hilary Wainwright, Editor of Red Pepper and author of Arguments for a New Left; Nick Cohen, columnist on The Observer and author of What's Left?; and Mick Hume, columnist on The Times and editor of Spiked Online.
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Monday 12 February 2007 7:00 pm Nash Room"

Is this the state of politics today when some miserable middle-class lefties tired of keeping up appearences with any decent radical critique of the world today, go down a path of total political retreat.

How about some fine displays of radical spirit outside/inside...anyone up for it. See you there.

petroleuse

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07.02.2007 21:01

Mick Hume opposed the Iraq War, the Afghan war and NATO intervention in the former Yugoslavia. Actually there's a fantastic take down of Nick Cohen from one of Hume's RCP 'comrades' here at

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/2807/

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What splendid sectarianism!

08.02.2007 06:28

So, you are proposing a demonstration against left wing activists such as Hilary Wainwright (whose magazine, Red Pepper, has consistently opposed the war, although not in the juvenile language of Indymedia UK contributors).

Rudi

Is he being paid by CIA?

08.02.2007 11:40

As if we haven't had enough galloway/SWP bashing, here comes some self appointed "lefty" to do the rightwing press job for them.

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