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> On April 25, 2014 at 7:56 PM michael yates <mikedjya...@msn.com> wrote: > > Can comrades explain to me what is so outrageous about the publisher's defense > of its actions? I really would like to know. I don't know much about Lawrence > and Wishart. They did a copublication with Monthly Review Press of John > Tully's fine book on the Silverton (in London) strike in which Eleanor Marx > played a prominent role. we appreciated their agreement to do this, and the > support they have given to John in his London promotion of the book. Hopefully > Billy Bragg won't find out about L and W's nefarious nature and refuse to > endorse the book. He's met Tully and we sent him a copy of the book. He agreed > to hype the book a bit after I asked him if he would be willing to do so. What is so outrageous is that L&W was built, like other old CPGB outlier organisations and the Daily Worker (later renamed Morning Star), on the efforts of selfless party members and sympathisers in the British working class movement. Just as the party premises and the Morning Star were stolen by Eurocommunists and Stalinists respectively, L&W was spirited away - effectively privatised - and out of the control of the working class movement. Marxists do not respect copyright - it is anathema - and only hold to it when we are forced to under pain of massive fines or imprisonment - sometimes not even then! The Eurocommunist heirs who run L&W are scum who need to feel the full ire of the world's working class for their class treachery, especially for this latest anti-communist attack. Jim ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
