Andrew Murray had a big piece in the Morning Star last Wednesday entitled 'Rochdale has shown what can be done'.
In it Murray raised something that was in many ways obvious, but I and many others had certainly missed concerning the London protests. Jointly organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, CND, Muslim Association of Britain, Stop the War Coalition, Friends of Al-Aqsa and Palestinian Forum in Britain, Murray writes of the marches:
"For one thing, the exclusion of Galloway from the platform at the national rallies for Palestine is not tenable. It would perversely echo the disdain for the masses of Rochdale expressed by the Prime Minister".
Well, there was still no room for George Galloway's fedora in London this weekend, and the man himself was instead to be found speaking alongside Arthur Scargill at a miners strike commemoration in Doncaster. I am guessing Galloway's exclusion, while perhaps down to personal issues, is most likely because his position on Syria rubs up some of the Islamists in the pro-Palestinian marches, the wrong way.
If so, its an interesting test of the size and nature of this coalition? Is there room for Galloway and the Workers Party of Britain, or not?
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