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30. I went on a number of anti Iraq war demos

Tue Sep 27, 2016, 01:08 PM

Sep 2016

And when on these marches you are confronted with a constant stream of people leafleting and selling newspapers for these groups. It wasn't just a few trots at the top, there were trots the whole way through the anti-war movement. Ranging from the Socialist Workers Party right through to the Spartacists.

To be honest I don't begrudge them any of this stuff on anti-war demos, although talking to these people, and reading the large quantities of newspapers and leaflets they gave me did make up my mind about the far left.

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