I have just sent the following, short but to the point, letter to Socialist Worker, The Socialist, Scottish Socialist Voice, The Morning Star and the New Statesman. I have also created an event for this recall conference on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=57744247628). Since it seemed to be being ignored by every publication apart from the Weekly Worker (and that was at my urging after extremely negative coverage of the original Convention), the recall conference was in danger of becoming a damp squib - which would be a massive waste of a brilliant opportunity for the left to finally get its act together. UK plc is going bankrupt, as I have pointed out in previous messages, and if the left doesn't get its act together, then someone else will and the result may not be something we want...

 

 

 

I urge you to publicise the best opportunity in years for left unity, inside and outside the Labour Party, in the recall conference for the highly successful and non-sectarian Convention of the Left which took place during Labour's conference in September. In my view the organisation formed by this event should be clearly anti-capitalist, at a time when British capitalism particularly is on the verge of collapse.

 

This recall conference takes place on Saturday 24 January 2008 in Manchester (Friends Meeting House, Mount Street). For more details, visit www.conventionoftheleft.org.