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Counterfire, the journal of the ex-revolutionaries behind the UK Stop the War Coalition, is holding a conference to mark the centennial of the Bolshevik Revolution: http://www.counterfire.org/news/18688-revolution-russia-1917-one-hundred-years-on Among the speakers are leading opponents of the Syrian Revolution such as Lindsay German, John Rees and Tariq Ali. This is not only morally outrageous, but strategically and ideologically bankrupt. Stop the War has repeatedly refused appeals for support from Syrian revolutionaries, and in a recent sum-up of the supposedly deceased Revolution by Rees, Counterfire blames the Revolutionaries for turning to the West - ignoring the fact that many did so primarily because there was little global support from the "Left." (see http://www.counterfire.org/articles/analysis/18669-syria-a-tragedy-foretold ) Ironically this campist conference could be the occasion for the real Left globally to come together to discuss the current state of the Left and what lessons should be drawn from a hundred years of revolution and counterrevolution - that coming together being an outgrowth hopefully of collaboration to call for a boycott of this conference. _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com