ICC Open Meeting, 5 October, London

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Westartfromhere: Thanks for responding and apologies for the late reply. At the open meeting we discussed three main topics: the current situation in the Middle East, imperialist interests in Africa, and the intervention of internationalists on the question of war. Interestingly, a comrade from the SPGB was there and informed us that some comrades in the organisation are beginning to think that we are in an increasingly catastrophic situation, not just the endless cycle of boom and slump that the SPGB usually puts forward against the communist left’s notion of a decadent system which is posing a real threat to the survival of humanity.

The issue of 9/11 didn’t come up. But a couple of questions about your post: what are you referring to when you mention the “audacious uprising of the working class on 28/9/2000”?

And why would the US state allowing Al Qaida to go ahead with their attack imply that “a conspiracy existed between the US State and the Islamist state-in-waiting alongside the existing Islamist state of Saudi Arabia?”. There is evidence that the security services of the US state were monitoring some of the 9/11 plotters, so all they had to do to let them go ahead with whatever they were planning was not arrest them. It wouldn’t have needed any direct agreement between the US and Al-Qaida.