Compass and Iraq

Saturday June 17, 2006
The Guardian

Walter Wolfgang (Letters, June 16) dismisses the Compass conference because it includes some "too closely associated with the Blairite New Labour project" who "in no sense can be deemed to have sufficiently repudiated it". The left needs pluralism rather than talking to the converted and heckling those thought to be renegades. But I agree that Iraq should be discussed at the Compass conference so that its new non-sectarian Labour movement can be supported.

Gary Kent
Director, Labour Friends of Iraq