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Public InquiryInterested in maladministration. Estd. 2005
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SWP: In the footsteps of WRP?![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Jamers Turley outlines the history of the WRP and how it recieved money from despots such as Saddam and went to pretend that Iraq was a democracy. This raises questions as to why the SWP support the Iran Regime and portray it as progressive. Some of this was undoubtedly given a ‘legitimate’ veneer. The WRP’s print shop took on contracts to print, for example, 250,000 copies of Qaddafi’s Green book. Various other ‘favours’ are well documented and now infamous. News Line journalists were ordered to take pictures of communist demonstrators outside the Iraqi embassy and print off extra-large copies to be handed to the WRP’s Ba’athist paymasters.8 No less repulsively, money was taken from Libya for “information-gathering” with “openly anti-semitic undertones” - the defunct libertarian-socialist paper Solidarity describes it plainly as “Jew-spotting in the media, politics and business”.9 |
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