Incumbents keep their seats on the Port of Morrow Commission eastoregonian.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from eastoregonian.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
BOARDMAN — All three incumbents on the Port of Morrow commission will be retaining their seats, according to unofficial election results released after 8 p.m. on Tuesday, May 18.
Cliff Slaughter, sociologist and author who was entwined in the splits and factions of the extreme Left – obituary
In the 1960s he defended the Trotskyist-Leninist ideal of permanent revolution built on the revolutionary consciousness of the working class
Cliff Slaughter
Cliff Slaughter, who has died aged 92, was an academic who inhabited those outer reaches of hard-Left socialism which, like extreme religious sects, are prone to mind-numbingly complex ideological splits, betrayals and expulsions – coupled with a level of personal vituperation that most people would find baffling – or even comical.
His obituary on the World Socialist Web Site (WSWS) credits Slaughter as having played a leading role in the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) – a group which in 1953 split off from the Fourth International (FI, a Trotskyist organisation dedicated to the goal of international revolution) over the leadership of Michel Pablo (real name Michalis Raptis)
The mess the ostensible left is in, and the way out workersliberty.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from workersliberty.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Letters
Diane Abbott made a particularly stupid comment when interviewed on the
Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme on Sky News (May 9). She has taken to trying to talk very slowly - either in a vain attempt to add ‘gravitas’ or, more likely, to try and enable her brain to keep pace with her mouth.
Asked whether Labour could ever win a general election again, Abbott replied that Eric Hobsbawm had written a widely circulated article in 1978 entitled ‘The forward march of Labour halted?’ and that “proved to be completely wrong”. Completely wrong? The following year the Labour government of James Callaghan was defeated by Margaret Thatcher’s Conservatives, who then remained in office for the following 18 years, winning four general elections on the trot. Labour did eventually return to office in a landslide in 1997, but Abbott and her wing of Labour refused to accept New Labour as real Labour and claimed the period between 1997 and 2010 was an anathema. So that is either 1