Corin Redgrave and Gerry Healy
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The death of actor Corin Redgrave April 6 produced an outpouring of rather airbrushed eulogies in the British media. Scion of the renowned Redgrave clan, major figures for four generations in British stage, screen, and later television, Corin had made his name in productions of Shakespeare and Noel Coward and appeared in such films as A Man for All Seasons, Excalibur, and Four Weddings and a Funeral. His father was the well-known film actor Michael Redgrave. His two sisters, of course, were Vannessa and Lynn Redgrave. Corin was a lifelong leftist, as is Vanessa. The British media on his death referred vaguely but positively to Corin's fight against injustice. BBC Radio 4 said Corin Redgrave had been "looking at all forms of injustice and oppression" and was "trying to make a better world". In fact Corin Redgrave with his better known sister Vanessa were decades-long members of the Workers Revolutionary Party, a Trotskyist sect run as a mad cult by Gerry Healy.
Observer columnist Nick Cohen takes the prettifiers to task in the April 29 London Standpoint:
Articles on Left-wing Anti-Semitism
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One of the most disappointing trends in the past several decades has been the enthusiasm of many far left currents and organizations for Third World dictators, right-wing jihadi theocrats, and other such enemies of bearable human societies. I cannot help but recall that it was policies like this by the American government that in my youth drew me to the left in revulsion. The lodestone of this politics is a compass that always points to the United States as the preeminent evil in the world. Running a close second, however, is an obsessive hatred of Israel and by extension the great majority of the comparatively small number of Jews left on the planet, who are sympathetic to the Jewish state. To say this will immediately elicit the outcry, "You supporters of Israel just brand anybody who criticizes Israel as an anti-Semite to stifle any discussion of Israel's crimes."
Christopher Hitchens Speaks on Anti-Semitism
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How the Anti-Democratic Iranian Left Paved the Way for Khomeini
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