IN Struccie to Tnose rainier in ave recognising Ceror mal TEOr GUr fascists is WITO course aostracu admit that 1 was very headline "Defenc speech wveek.y.
November. hea weekly nas never defended "free speech' , and quite ently been in the forefront of the oeny mree speechte Mascis s ano racis s. waose ideas it recognises to be dangerous to the interests of workers of expression and access to the media is impossible incastaist Socie. in oraclice correspondents EnCE WV CONIY always derenden ine democratic right to free speech, is only working class which is the defenconsisten. campaign deny a platform to racists and speech. have pointed out many times to those cons/cer •ine no olanorm ungemocranc 1na1 we those t to free speech TIGRIS not ine neaoune or iwo quite concrete: 'Labour bans Irish protest, expels Ager Drome ne Fn a Sapituiation to Defend Free Speech class TYPOGTISY nedomne ano ine • clever arEC/E апаск Inat nypocrisy dy derending the right to free It is The "Defend Free Speech' head line only adds Worse, in the context of the article wilch tonows ano nontv taki up the challenge to the right o fascists to spread their poisonous , it implies and an inconsistency I hope that you will make it clear in your next edition that'the sort o con usion nat couc arise trom reading this article is unfounded and that Red Weekly makes concessions lo any sUCI - FUHT class hypocrisy. CHRIS YOUNG (Oxford)
are abstract in relecarint derence •or democratie riante t some future period [socialism, that the bourgeoisie YC AIV mounis no consistent oerence or bourgeois democratic rignis many cases, such as reland, Agee those That is the reason why we defend those rights, recoon!
SInC cinen gains ano sate guards for the workers movement The line of argument followea by comrades : Young and Foster is dangerous one. Followed thro ugh TOTES conclusion I WoUld mean revorutonares turning ther backs on the legitimate struggles for democratic rights in capitalist society posing the struggle for proletarian democracy.
That struggle can only be carnec out mn me derence ot the democratic rights of the working class coming state and the Labour Government Three
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weeks ago was "ruling The confusion over the question working class and its of free speech seems to be in the comrades Young and Foster who
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