Am I an MI5 agent? An open letter in reply to Ken Livingstone (1998)
Mr Livingstone, Marx once rightly said:”To leave error uncorrected is to encourage intellectual immorality.” But that has little to do with what I’m engaged in now! Dealing with an irresponsible old gobshite, unserious in everything political except self advancement, is no matter of an exchange of ideas and views with another socialist or of comradely “correction” and counter-correction. It is work akin to what sanitation workers do – unpleasant but necessary. Three Workers’ Liberty people report that from the platform at a meeting of 30 or 40 students at Birkbeck College, London, last July...