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One of the strikers at Stanfords map shop, Covent Garden, explained to SO the effect of their picket at the shop over the past 11 THE crucifixion of Ken Livingstone over his invitation to Sinn Fein to visit London cannot be shrugged off as just another episode in the everyday story of gutter press folk.
For the second time in nine months, the Left. whatever that portfolio word is supposed to cover - has crumbled under an onslaught from Fleet Street.
It is no accident that both these episodes go to the root of capitalist rule - to the question of imperialism.
The first was on a grand scale - the sending of an armada half way round the world to inflict the maximum of deaths and destruction considered compatible with a veneer of civilisation.
Before the blood started flowing, they were loud in their calls for peace. After the fighting started there was hardly a left figure of any prominence who did not feel the need to pay tribute to the bravery of "our" forces before calling for UN intervention.
The Sinn Fein invitation was a much lesser event but the venom was no less powerful and the test no less catastrophically failed.
Fhe hysteria was multiplied by the Ballykelly bombing. But that is no reason to treat the press attacks as exceptional. The circumstances provided a stiff test - but exactly and precisely the test which the class war poses to the Icaders