one of the most ridiculous concepts I have heard of was the charge of being prematurely anti fascist that Marcarthy used to blacklist left wing people in the USA.
Your comments about Corbyn in relaion the talking to the IRA remind me of that.
I couldn't be more diametrically opposed to what you suggest.
The press didn't have the freedom or discourtesy to disrespect the american government back in those days.
Times have changed since the 60's, pretty much since the vietnamese war when the press grew of age and the government lost the media war.
The british press stopped doffing their cap's around the same time and put every politician under scrutiny, both left and right.
Corbyn's links with the IRA and Sein Fein were in the press many years ago. He invited them into Parliament as guests.
My point is not that he shouldn't have done so. Just that there were negotiations going on, that he may well not have been involved in, but his involvement on the periphery didnt make those negotiations any easier.


