Comments on: Letter to ‘Communist Student’ from Charlie Pottins http://csukblog.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/letter-to-communist-student-from-charlie-pottins/ Ideas for revolution Sat, 31 Oct 2009 12:37:47 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: daistation http://csukblog.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/letter-to-communist-student-from-charlie-pottins/#comment-1093 daistation Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:58:27 +0000 http://csukblog.wordpress.com/?p=90#comment-1093 You are also very right that the SWP seem to be all over the place on the issue of the boycott. The same John Rose that you have experienced being for a blanket boycott, was recently reported as arguing the opposite. See the John Wight report on the latest Cairo conference on the Socialist Unity blog where he reports: "at the workshop on the academic boycott Mick Napier and Sofiah MacLeod of SPSC [Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign] had it out with John Rose when he proposed a limited academic boycott encompassing only those Israeli universities and institutions located in settlements." Dave. You are also very right that the SWP seem to be all over the place on the issue of the boycott. The same John Rose that you have experienced being for a blanket boycott, was recently reported as arguing the opposite.

See the John Wight report on the latest Cairo conference on the Socialist Unity blog where he reports: “at the workshop on the academic boycott Mick Napier and Sofiah MacLeod of SPSC [Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign] had it out with John Rose when he proposed a limited academic boycott encompassing only those Israeli universities and institutions located in settlements.”

Dave.

]]> By: daistation http://csukblog.wordpress.com/2008/04/13/letter-to-communist-student-from-charlie-pottins/#comment-1092 daistation Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:18:18 +0000 http://csukblog.wordpress.com/?p=90#comment-1092 Thanks very much for the letter Charlie. I agree with you that boycott is a tactic which must be employed flexibly and intelligently if it is to be useful. I started to outline my position in CS3 here: http://www.communiststudents.org.uk/paper/003/boycott.html I don't have time to expand on this now, but that is work that needs to be done. On the issue of positive support - some very brave friends of mine, who I have done a bit of fundraising for, are involved in a project called 'Free Gaza' which seeks to break the blockade using a ship. For more info see here: http://www.freegaza.org/ Comradely, Dave Isaacson. Thanks very much for the letter Charlie.

I agree with you that boycott is a tactic which must be employed flexibly and intelligently if it is to be useful. I started to outline my position in CS3 here: http://www.communiststudents.org.uk/paper/003/boycott.html

I don’t have time to expand on this now, but that is work that needs to be done.

On the issue of positive support – some very brave friends of mine, who I have done a bit of fundraising for, are involved in a project called ‘Free Gaza’ which seeks to break the blockade using a ship. For more info see here: http://www.freegaza.org/

Comradely,
Dave Isaacson.

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