Weekly Worker, journal of the Communist Party of Great Britain, has an admirably open debate policy regarding its letters page.
This week they published this gem:
"[expletive deleted] reds
Dear red English comrads!
Sorry for my English. I want just to say, enough dream about [expletive deleted] communizm. I am already was living with him. No money, no food, no freedom, nothing. Even no sex ...
Igor
Russia"
Excellent letter. If only the Graun or Torygraph could provide the same levels of amusement, I might start buying them again.
ReplyDeleteYes a great letter, full credit to the Workers Weekly for printing it!!
ReplyDeleteit's true and anyone reading it can see that letters can get published in Weekly Worker (I have had a few myself, critical of the CPGB-PC communist party of GB - provisional cttee), but it also has to be said that the editors of that paper will change the character of 'oppositional' letters often by omission
ReplyDeleteto suit themselves
oops: CPGB-PC are the publishers of Weekly Worker
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