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� April 18, 2006 - Tony Blair: Socialists are Terrorists
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1531358,00.html"At last week's cabinet meeting, Mr Blair likened Islamic extremism to the Trotskyist Militant Tendency ..." SP responds to Tony Blair's desperate slurs against the 'Militant Tendency' Responding to Blair's alleged remarks, featured in a report on page 5 of today's Guardian, Socialist Party general secretary Peter Taaffe said today: "At last week's cabinet meeting, Tony Blair, "likened Islamic extremism to the Trotskyist Militant Tendency". Blair's remarks are an outrageous slur. Militant Tendency, now the Socialist Party, has always condemned terrorism; both the terrorism of individuals and groups both in Britain, Ireland and internationally, and the state terrorism of the US and British governments that is estimated to have resulted in the death of 100,000 civilians in Iraq. "It does not bode well for civil liberties in the wake of 7/7 that the prime minister is prepared to malign socialists who have consistently opposed his neo-liberal, warmongering policies by equating them with terrorists." * * *Are you paying attention to the relevence of this remark? Between the London explosions of 7 July 2005 and the extra-judicial execution of Jean Charles de Menezes, Blair is claiming that socialists are as bad as terrorists.
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