On Dec 12, 2015, at 6:26 PM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote:

> What a joke. This has nothing to do with Corbyn.

Wrong, I’m afraid. It has everything to do with Corbyn. The British media and 
right-wing Labour MP’s would hardly be getting so worked up about a small group 
like the STWC which, as you note, draws only small crowds of protesters. 


> It has to do with an
> "antiwar" group providing PR for a genocidal regime. People are pissed
> at the STWC because it provides a platform for Tariq Ali whose speech to
> their last rally was abominable. This is a group that thinks that it is
> 2003 all over again as if Barack Obama had "regime change" in mind. Now
> instead of leading hundreds of thousands in protests against an
> eventuality that has zero possibility, they have rallies of a couple of
> hundred with people walking around with portraits of Bashar al-Assad.
> Grotesque. Pathetic. Reactionary.
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