Thread by @socialist_davey

SEP rejects ‘Unite with the Right’ politics of #jimmydore when Jerry White attacked having Boogaloo Boy on the show. Unfortunately SEP not consistent. Thread on how ICFI gave left cover to #Unity4J vigils for #Assange promoting alt-right/fash figures (1)
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First act of cover by ICFI was removal of the comment section on July 12th 2018 article “Prominent whistleblowers and journalists defend Julian Assange at online vigil.” after comments pointing out #Unity4J vigils included alt-right/fash speakers (2)
classconscious.org/2018/09/09/why…

classconscious.org in Sept 2018 tried to warn the ICFI that “#Unity4J encapsulates the bankrupt perspective “that Assange must be defended under a ‘Unite with the Right’ banner” but received no response (3)
classconscious.org/2018/09/09/the…

We pointed out that #Unity4J amongst its progressive speakers included some of the most high profile Roger Stone connected fascist including Cassandra Fairbanks & Jack Posobiec and former Breitbart “journalist” Lee Stranahan. (4)

In Sept 2018, rather than join in a united Left critique of promoting fash in #Assange campaign, James Cogan of the SEP attacked classconscious.org on social media & outright denied the 'unite with the right' politics of #Unity4J (5)
classconscious.org/2019/02/26/res…

By Feb 2019, the ICFI doubled down on its support for #Unity4J by James Cogan, the then Australian Secretary of their party appearing on #Unity4J. (6)
wsws.org/en/articles/20…

classconscious.org in Feb 2019 explained how SEP’s position was an "ideological sledgehammer" for "apologists for ‘uniting with the right’ who ...make the point that “the real socialists” don’t mind standing alongside Breitbart journalists! (7)
classconscious.org/2019/02/18/the…

Since Jan 6th, the association of the ICFI with the “unite with the right” petty-bourgeois leadership of the #Assange campaign has come back to bite them. They have had to publicly dissociate themselves from Pilger, Hedges & now Dore all who appeared on #Unity4J (8)

Now that ICFI has publicly slammed the “Unite with the right” faction of “progressives”, it's time for them to retract and apologise to classconscious.org & myself for their previous attacks on us for advancing the same position within the #Assange campaign. (9)

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