ISG split over Respect

international | worker & community struggles and protests | other press Friday March 02, 2007 14:15 by B. Traven

The death agonies of "RESPECT" continue. It is becoming obvious that it is not a Socialist organisation. Read on at the link for a Class analysis as to why "RESPECT" is floundering.

B. Traven

In January, two leading members of the International Socialist Group, Alan Thornett and John Lister, left the officers’ group that heads the Respect national council. Others in and around the ISG-dominated paper/front Socialist Resistance have quit Respect altogether

Those who have left include Liam Mac Uaid from Tower Hamlets, who chaired national SR meetings, and editorial board member, comrade Tami. She has thrown her lot in with John McDonnell’s campaign for the Labour leadership. In her resignation letter from SR she explains that she became convinced that Respect “is not a socialist organisation”, nor is it “based in the working class”.