I just saw the verdict being read out live on the BBC World Service, 27 members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade were sentanced to life inprisonment for "Unpatriotic actions and Membership of a Communist organisation".
Thoughts, comments?
On talk radio the other day
Micahel portillo Conservative MP
''Its just another one of those endless crazy schemes we hear about over there, last month it was that boycott against communist japan. With the russian economy so weak you;d think the US could seize the advantage and try to send an ambassador to China or France but it seems our trans-atlantic cousins have no wish other than to be mired in isolationism and anti-communism.''
Jack Straw Liberal MP
''Well i guess i;d have to agree with michael. In foreign policy they seem incapable of realising the old adage that while no socialists are business friendly, some are less business friendly than others.
Lets face it even by the end of the vietnam war the ABL were political dinosaurs. Even the most rabid remnants of the comintern at the time viewed them as a liability. And ever since the Paris Pact stopped funding the IRA in the mid 70's their potential as any sort of threat has pretty much dissapeared alongwith most of their membership and the infamous Boston Chapter.''
Robert Kilroy-Silk UKIP via video link
''Typical PC bluster from these closet communists, they ought to get down in their knees and thank god for ...cut off due to interference ''
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Looking back at history its the same old story ever since they arrested every member of the communist party on the old AFL-CIO board and their economy took so long to recover from the great depression with no union involvement in the new deal.
Cut through the chomskyite agitprop
Na anarchists generally hate the abraham lincoln brigade in OTL. Let alone in a timeline when their stalinism carried on for a couple more decades, i mean the ABL would have blatantly been the worst kind of Tankies when it came to stuff like Hungary '56 or the May '68 riots in the Peoples Republic of France.