Far left abstain over condeming the murder of Hadi Saleh

The Workers' Weekly newspaper carries a report of the recent Stop the War Conference in which it claims that "The RMT moved a motion in this session condemning "unequivocally" the assassination of IFTU international secretary Hadi Saleh and all other attacks on trade unionists in Iraq. This was passed without any debate, but without the votes of the SWP, whose comrades abstained."

If true, it's a terrible sign of the times that left-wingers abstain on a motion condemning the brutal murder of a trade unionist. Perhaps our SWP readers might explain.

The paper also reports a row over the continued presence on the organisation's steering committee of "Workers Power" member, Kuldip Bajwa, and says that "…after WP's demonstration against the presence of the IFTU at the European Social Forum it was now considered, according to Andrew Murray, "too damaging to be associated with".

Hat Tip to Harry's Place