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Workers Vanguard No. 874

4 August 2006

On BT's Poison Pen

(Editorial Note)

We recently received two lengthy letters from the Bolshevik Tendency (BT). The BT is neither an interested reader with political questions or comments nor a legitimate political opponent. And they have means—their own press, 1917, and their own Web site. There is no reason to routinely reproduce their poison pen efforts in our own press.

In “BT: Renegades for Hire” (WV No. 807, 1 August 2003), we noted: “To the extent the BT has a political profile, it is as centrists who use their anti-Spartacism as the entry ticket into the swamp of social democracy. But the BT is also something else altogether: a vicious gang of crazed ‘god that failed’ renegades, eager to serve the purposes of those who would like to destroy us.” The BT is led by one Bill Logan, who was expelled from our tendency in 1979 following a thorough investigation by an international Control Commission and trial body that found him to be a twisted sociopath who manipulated the most intimate details of comrades’ personal lives for his own purposes and gratification. The BT is now running a racket by aiming to have its letters published in Workers Vanguard. We will respond to them in the pages of WV as we deem appropriate.

 

Workers Vanguard No. 874

WV 874

4 August 2006

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U.S. Out of Iraq! Hands Off Syria, Iran!

Down With Zionist Onslaught Against Lebanon, Gaza!

No to Imperialist "Peacekeepers"! For a Socialist Federation of the Near East!

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New Legal Papers Filed

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Free Abortion on Demand!

Defend Mississippi Abortion Clinic!

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Defend the Gains of the Chinese Revolution!

(Quote of the Week)

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Exchange on Iraq Occupation

(Letter)

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Letters Policy

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On BT's Poison Pen

(Editorial Note)

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Remembering Sam Hunt

(Letter)

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Defend Chinese Deformed Workers State!

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Failed Anarchist on "Failed States"

Noam Chomsky: "Radical" Adviser to U.S. Imperialism

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The Russian Revolution of 1917

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Imperialism's Labor Lieutenants

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At Bay Area Rally for Mumia

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