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category international | miscellaneous | opinion/analysis author Monday May 24, 2010 13:23author by john throne - labor's militant voice.author email loughfinn at aol dot com Report this post to the editors

Peter Hadden's death.

The death of Peter Hadden, leading member of the Socialist Party has generated many speeches and obituaries. Here is my general response.

The obituaries for Peter Hadden speak of his struggle for socialism and working class unity. As somebody who was active in the Militant which later became the Socialist party I agree with this. The obituaries also criticize the role of the union leaders in their refusal to give leadership over the past decades. I also agree with this.

However there is another aspect of the struggle for socialism which is not mentioned in the obituaries and speeches. And this has been and is also very damaging to the struggle for socialism and to working class struggle. This is the left sectarianism of all the left wing groups and the unhealthy internal top down lives of these organizations. These false methods, along with other problems, have prevented the left wing forces from building a serious alternative to the organizations such as the trade unions and labor parties which support capitalism. The Militant, later the Socialist Party, and people like myself who was a founder of the MIlitant, and Peter Hadden, were just as guilty of this as anybody else. It would have been good to have some acknowledgement of this.

Not only that. But the obituaries for Peter Hadden and the speeches and writings of his Comrades done around his death show that the old wrong methods still continue. First they glorify him and compare him to Connolly and call him a "giant."

The obituaries and writings also use the Stalinist method of writing people out of history. People like myself who were active in Militant here in Ireland from the very beginning, people like Dermot Connolly, because we later had different views and were expelled, we have been written out of history. The left of which Peter Hadden was part will never develop a mass basis until it openly confronts its mistakes in this area, its undemocratic internal life and its left sectarian methods. It is unfortunate Peter Haddens death has been used to further strengthen these false methods rather than to openly confront and discuss them.

Sincerely, John Throne.

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 #   Title   Author   Date 
   Dermot Connolly     Panopticon    Mon May 24, 2010 15:59 
   Balance needed     Archivist    Mon May 24, 2010 16:25 
   it's an obituary     sper    Mon May 24, 2010 18:58 
   Adoraton of Dead People.     Historian.    Mon May 24, 2010 19:30 
   A short reply (of sorts)     Jolly Red Giant    Mon May 24, 2010 20:25 
   Not appropriate     Bewildered of Paris    Mon May 24, 2010 21:07 
   Socialist Party     Paddy Hackett    Mon May 24, 2010 22:27 
   Help on the way     Archivist    Tue May 25, 2010 08:41 
   Perspective     Bewildered of Paris    Tue May 25, 2010 11:04 
 10   Catch a grip John     Ciaran Murphy    Tue May 25, 2010 17:48 
 11   Is it any wonder?     S-Seeker    Wed May 26, 2010 12:21 
 12   Peter Hadden SP obituary     London SP member    Wed May 26, 2010 14:20 
 13   Iam sure he was a decent guy but what did he really say or achieve on the National question?     younger socialist    Wed May 26, 2010 15:43 
 14   Young S     Anonther    Wed May 26, 2010 16:30 
 15   Questions for Younger Socialist     Panopticon    Wed May 26, 2010 16:35 
 16   Connolly, Hadden and the National Question     Gearoid O Loingsigh    Wed May 26, 2010 18:27 
 17   More nonsense     Jolly Red Giant    Wed May 26, 2010 19:38 
 18   History re written again     Dermot Lacey    Wed May 26, 2010 21:39 
 19   Reply to Dermot     Jolly Red Giant    Wed May 26, 2010 22:21 
 20   Splitting hairs?     Séamus    Thu May 27, 2010 09:17 
 21   Seamus is correct     Dermot Lacey    Thu May 27, 2010 09:41 
 22   Condolances to Peters family and friends, but please get a grip     Marxist    Thu May 27, 2010 13:17 
 23   theorist and activist     passerby    Thu May 27, 2010 13:46 
 24   factually and politically wrong     London SP member    Thu May 27, 2010 14:24 
 25   Erich Fromm - "get a grip"!     London SP member    Thu May 27, 2010 14:31 
 26   Isn't it ironic when a little micro party criticises a giant in socialist theory such as Erich From     aunty state capitalist    Thu May 27, 2010 16:02 
 27   Fromm and Marxism     London SP member    Thu May 27, 2010 18:57 
 28   Response to London SP member     Marxist    Fri May 28, 2010 11:38 
 29   Peter Hadden...     Former Comrade    Wed Jun 02, 2010 21:22 
 30   Stalinist indifference...     Leon    Fri Aug 13, 2010 20:37 


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