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Mark,
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I don't see why I should have to justify every point of our politics in
order to gain your approval for us to post to the site. Your demands that I
do so smack of not only authoritarianism but a very arrogant attitude
towards fellow activists who you clearly know very little about, beyond
skimming our website for quotes. All of the information you've asked for is
freely available on our site and on indymedia (I'm sure you'll find lots of
information, links, and the kind of debate you seem to be wanting if you
just search Indymedia UK for 'Cuba'). Of course people won't be able to
access that information on our site from here any more, as I've seen posts
have already started to be hidden on the basis that they include a link to
our website, even though it appears from the discussion here that no
decision on that had been reached..
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Would all the reports that have been posted this year on Indymedia UK about
actions in solidarity with the Palestinian liberation struggle - which you
choose to interpret as support for a Palestinian state - or with the Tamil
liberation struggle be removed if you had your way, is this 'promoting
nationalist movements'?
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I think there's a stong need for a site like this and hope it proves a
success. I also hope you manage to keep it broad and open to different
groups and individuals to engage with. I've no problem with open political
debate, but being compared to fascists and the Labour Party, accused of
torturing anarchists, down to maybe the most bizarre accusation that we have
a 'fetishism for industrial workerism', all by people I don't think I've
ever even met and who have demonstrated very little knowledge of what we
actually do, does not seem like the kind of attitude likely to attract new
people to get involved.
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Tom
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