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	Sean Matgamna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sean Matgamna, also known as John O'Mahony (the English language equivalent of Sean Matgamna) is a Trotskyist theorist.
		Matgamna, working with two supporters, formed the Workers Fight group to act upon his views, central to which was a call for Trotskyist unity in Britain.
		Matgamna has also, since 1986, argued strongly for a two state solution - that is states for both the Palestinians and Israelis - in the Middle East - even prior to the overthrow of capitalism in the region.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sean_Matgamna (718 words)

	Alliance for Workers' Liberty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The group has had a complex history, but has always been strongly identified with the theorist Sean Matgamna.
		The AWL traces its origins to the document What we are and what we must become, written by the tendency's founder, Sean Matgamna in 1966.
		By 1983 the paper was dominated by Matgamna's supporters (by then in the Workers Socialist League) and was clearly identified with that faction.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Alliance_for_Workers_Liberty (737 words)

	Cults and Sects
		For Sean this attitude represents a recoiling against group discipline and it doesn’t matter to him which group; belonging to any old group is better than belonging to no group at all.
		Sean’s "digging out an article Leon Trotsky wrote in 1932" is just not good enough, particularly when he uses it as an authoritative text not as a key to understanding.
		Sean is claiming that the discussion groups and journals study history and theory in the abstract, separating us from revolutionary practice.
	www.whatnextjournal.co.uk /Pages/Newint/Cults.html (3458 words)

	Weekly Worker 461 Thursday December 19 2002
		According to Matgamna’s own account, what we supposedly call the AWL’s “syndicalist opposition” is centred on a distinct coolness, not to say hostility, towards the Socialist Alliance.
		Comrade Matgamna snarls that “it is one of the characteristics of the sectarian pedant in politics that he tries to anticipate such possible future differences in a pre-emptive, artificial and usually destructive way”.
		Comrade Matgamna’s pooh-poohing of our criticism of existing trade union work by the various tiny and competing left groups is to give a theoretical gloss, or veneer, to backwardness.
	www.cpgb.org.uk /worker/461/awl.html (3569 words)

	Jim Higgins: More Years for the Locust (Chap.9)
		Indeed, Sean’s great idol at the time was James P Cannon, probably the most adamant opponent of bureaucratic collectivism and its main theorist Max Shachtman.
		Matgamna himself was much taken with James P Cannon whose party was a fully paid up member of the USFI.
		Sean is no longer an expellee he is an expeller, happily ridding himself of Alan Thornett and his co-thinkers and the ex-IS Left Faction.
	www.marxists.org /archive/higgins/1997/locust/chap09.htm (3840 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Sean Matgamna
		In the 1980s, Matgamna, along with many other members of the group, by then known as the Socialist Organiser Alliance, came to reconsider some of his views.
		Rereading works by Hal Draper and Max Shachtman led him to conclude that Third Camp socialism offered an eloquent expression of many of the conclusions he had come to.
		Matgamna is still a prominent member of the Trotskyist group he founded, now known as the Alliance for Workers Liberty.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Sean_Matgamna (542 words)

	Alliance for Workers' Liberty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The AWL is registered with the Electoral Commission as a political party, for which purpose it has listed various executive committee members as officers: its leader as Cathy Nugent, its nominating officer as Mark Osborn and its treasurer as Martin Thomas.
		In this document Matgamna argued that the Revolutionary Socialist League was too inward looking and needed to become more activist in its orientation.
		Publication of the document led to his expulsion from the RSL and with a handful of supporters, he formed the Workers' Fight group.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alliance_for_Workers'_Liberty (1321 words)

	Jim Higgins: A secular-democratic state (1996)
		It is always a pleasure to see Sean Matgamna in full spate and my enjoyment of his piece, Paul Foot philo-semite (WL 32) was abutted only by the fear that he might do himself an injury under the weight of all that heavy irony.
		Sean makes much of Tony Cliff’s 70th birthday statement; “I used to argue that poor Jewish refugees should be allowed to come to Palestine...
		Sean quite correctly it seems to me, says the answer is the unity of Arab and Jewish workers.
	www.marxists.org /archive/higgins/1996/07/wliberty.htm (1371 words)

	Jim Higgins: Long distance Zionist (1998)
		Another standard feature of Sean’s method is the one where he complains bitterly that he is being abused unfairly as a prelude to unleashing a little of his own venom into the argument.
		So Sean says, Cliff in his New International article of June 1939, was for Jewish immigration into Palestine and for the sale of land to the Jewish population, both points vigorously opposed by the Palestinian CP.
		The socialist Matgamna is the eager partisan of this robustly capitalist state, this proud possessor of an arsenal of atomic bombs, this outpost of imperialism that enshrines the expropriation and exploitation of its Arab citizens and finds its justification in the notion of the exclusive and superior character of its Jewish people.
	www.marxists.org /archive/higgins/1998/03/wliberty.htm (3545 words)

	The Locusts - Cankerworms - Caterpillars
		Cliff, having invited Matgamna in on his own say so, felt that he should be able to banish him with equally arbitrary facility.
		After the unravelling of the fusion with the Trotskyist Tendency in 1971 tolerance of any form of dissent was increasingly harshly treated and all too often a desire to carry on a discussion beyond Cliff’s patience was seen as a particular case of dissension.
		Matgamna is just such a case in point, as editor of Workers’ Liberty, hardly an issue passes without an article of wearisome length and dubious relevance from his hand.
	www.revolutionary-history.co.uk /otherdox/Whatnext/Higgins.html (4785 words)

	Weekly Worker 458 Thursday November 28 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		During the summer Sean Matgamna, the AWL’s primus inter pares, penned a conventional but trenchant article against religious superstition in their fortnightly paper Solidarity.
		Sean “no-platformed” himself - that after we had been advertising him as a speaker for months.
		I asked both comrade Thomas and Matgamna to keep their eye on CPGB-AWL rapprochement, file the Leeds incident under ‘cock-up’, not ‘conspiracy’ and move on to more important things such as an unofficial Socialist Alliance paper.
	www.cpgb.org.uk /worker/458/awl.html (4182 words)

	Workers’ Liberty and the Third Camp
		This substitution or locum, as Sean Matgamna calls it in his introduction, is the root explanation of the degeneration of the Russian revolution, and ultimately of the complete disenfranchisement of the working class by Stalin by 1928.
		Even the mighty Trotsky, who had first theorised and then led the great events of 1917, who had predicted and fought the rise of fascism, and who had charted the degeneration of the Russian revolution, died in 1940 still trapped on the horns of this dilemma.
		The relevant quote is in Matgamna, ed, p.449, or in James P. Cannon, Writings and Speeches 1945-47, 1977, p.200.
	www.whatnextjournal.co.uk /Pages/Back/Wnext12/Hampton.html (3856 words)

	The last time we were heresy-hunted \| Workers' Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The article is a response to the criticism WL has received from the SWP and other parts of the left for refusing to regard Labour MP George Galloway as a respectworthy member of the labour movement.
		"Mr Sean Matgamna of the Socialist Organiser group is a political provocateur who is determined to serve the forces of the capitalist state.
		Mitchell continues: "Matgamna's original article [in response to the world Zionist conspiracy editorial] took lock, stock and barrel the reactionary and ultra-reactionary argument of (Israeli Prime Minister) Menachim Begin that to be an anti-Zionist is to be an anti-semite."
	www.workersliberty.org /node/view/1127 (2069 words)

	The Bankruptcy of "New Class" Theories
		Sean Matgamna appears to have entered political life as a member of the Stalinist Communist Party, but in 1959 he was won to the ostensible Trotskyism espoused by the late Gerry Healy.
		Matgamna was expelled by Healy in 1963, but he broke with him politically only a year later, when the Healy organization renounced any entry work in the Labour Party.
		Matgamna states openly what is in fact the real program of all the revisionist British ex-Trotskyists: opposition to new October Revolutions and prostration at the feet of the British Labour Party.
	www.icl-fi.org /english/esp/archives/oldsite/NEWCLASS.HTM (12207 words)

	Alliance for Workers' Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The group has had a complex but has always been strongly identified with theorist Sean Matgamna.
		The AWL traces its origins to the What we are and what we must written by the tendency's founder Sean Matgamna in 1966.
		By 1983 the paper was dominated by Matgamna's (by then in the Workers Socialist League) was clearly identified with that faction.
	www.freeglossary.com /Workers'_Liberty (830 words)

	The last time we were heresy hunted \| Workers' Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In 1981 Vanessa Redgrave on behalf of the WRP sued Socialist Organiser— John Bloxam and Sean Matgamna — for comparing them to the Moonie sect and saying that they inflicted emotional, political and physical violence on vulnerable young people.
		After they sued him for libel Sean Matgamna had repeatedly said in Socialist Organiser that the WRP was taking Libyan and other Arab gold — including at one time Iraqi gold.
		Sean Matgamna and his mistitled Socialist Organiser have nailed their flag firmly on to the reactionary mast...”
	www.workersliberty.org /node/view/1115 (4056 words)

	Dear Comrades,
		When I circulated the IB’s from WP’s fusion with Matgamna to set up ICL to some comrades on the NC I was told I was opposed to reconstructing the FI, which would take place through fusions as well as splits.
		JL was carefully tied up on the paper, AT and TR had full time jobs, which left much of the running and politically formative work in the hands of the old ICL, who had a very clear idea of their independent role as an apparatus developing their political project.
		As an EC member I was barred from raising them outside of the EC, but then allowed to write one letter to the paper since ICL people were presenting their views unrestrictedly.
	ito.gn.apc.org /PeteFletter.htm (2827 words)

	AWL contorted logic on Euro - There is no Maastricht road to socialism! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The position of the AWL on the Euro is informed by their overall position on the EU – which is to see it as a progressive development in European capitalism, albeit with some unfortunate, and nasty, anti-working class features.
		The case for this supposed progressive nature of the EU is spelled out most clearly by Sean Matgamna in the new AWL pamphlet on European integration.
		Sean Matgamna’s own proposal in this wacky campaigning vein is that socialists should have their OWN ballot papers, and ballot boxes, and run their own completely different ballot – calling for votes in favour of workers’ rights.
	www.labournet.org.uk /so/57awl.htm (3118 words)

	Sean Matgamna - Definition up Erdmond.Com
		Matgamna, working with two supporters, formed the Workers_Fight group to act upon his views, central to which was a call for Trotskyist unity in Britain.
		In the 1980s, Matgamna, along with many other members of the group, by then known as the Socialist_Organiser_Alliance, came to reconsider some of his views.
		Rereading works by Hal_Draper and Max_Shachtman led him to conclude that Third_Camp_socialism offered an eloquent expression of many of the conclusions he had come to.
	www.erdmond.com /Sean_Matgamna.html (418 words)

	Racist Anti-Muslim Provocations Trigger Islamic Reaction
		Matgamna’s way of doing this is to support a “labor movement” being built under the bayonets (and with the tactic toleration) of the occupation forces.
		It is the direct continuation of Matgamna’s “Third Camp” posture to justify its refusal to defend the degenerated and deformed workers states (despite their Stalinist bureaucracies) against capitalist counterrevolution.
		Indeed, Matgamna goes out of his way to downplay the role of U.S. imperialism in creating the bin Ladens as a political force and instead mainly blames “Russian invaders,” although the Stalinists were fighting, although half-heartedly and temporarily, against these Islamic reactionaries.
	www.internationalist.org /racistcartoons0604.html (5663 words)

	Sean Hannity on Almondnet
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	www.hotel-vista.co.uk /blackpool/sean_hannity.html (292 words)

	AWL-watch™
		Not only does Matgamna confirm that the AWL refused to oppose the NATO invasion of Kosova and the bombing of Serbia, unlike the "reactionary ‘anti-imperialist’ left", but he also reveals the utter political stupidity of the group that Ismail/Randal belong to.
		It is little wonder then that both Sean Matgamna and his faithful lapdog, Martin Thomas, both describe themselves in Thomas’s words as "a little bit Zionist".
		Matgamna even muses on AWL’s website that it might lead to the establishment of a bourgeois democracy with the elections in January (if only one forgets about the tiresome bombing!).
	www.awl-watch.blogspot.com (10535 words)

	Sean Matgamna - Term Explanation on IndexSuche.Com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		He was born, probably in the late 1940s, in County_Clare in the Republic_of_Ireland.
		As a result, Matgamna was expelled in 1964 and with a small number of supporters joined the other Trotskyist group operating in Manchester, the Revolutionary_Socialist_League.
		Matgamna is still a prominent member of the Trotskyist group he founded, now known as the Alliance_for_Workers_Liberty.
	www.indexsuche.com /Sean_Matgamna.html (390 words)

	The Lost Marxism of Critical Trotskyists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		For Matgamna the ‘bureaucratic collectivists’ may be declaimed as a historical freak but if his logic is correct they have also proved to be the most dynamic new class in world history.
		That process took place on a dramatic scale in the Soviet Union from the late 1920s onwards and was obviously common knowledge to Carter and his associates.
		Instead the focus is switched to Weberian characteristics such as ‘revenue, power and position’ all of which certainly appear within class society but in no way serve to reveal its underlying dynamics.
	www.internazionalisti.it /ibrp/english/intcomm/ic17/the_lost_marxism.htm (2971 words)

	Socialist Organiser - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This process was completed when the ICL/WSL fusion broke, as Socialist Organiser re-evaluated many of its international policies and developed its own distinctive "third camp" position.
		As Socialist Organiser lost ground as a broad vehicle of left unity in the Labour Party, Sean Matgamna's supporters from the former ICL began to work entirely through the Socialist Organiser Alliance.
		Socialist Organiser was denied the right to 'register' with the Labour Party in 1990, but this had little practical effect and it continued to be published until the mid-1990s, when the AWL launched their new newspaper, Action for Solidarity, now known simply as Solidarity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Action_for_Solidarity (313 words)

	Ireland: The socialist road to peace. A debate between Sean Matgamna and John McAnulty \| Workers' Liberty
		Sean Matgamna, editor of Workers’ Liberty, debated at the Workers’ Liberty 1997 summer school with John McAnulty of Socialist Democracy, formerly People’s Democracy, the Irish group of one of the main international strands of Marxist politics, the Fourth International (United Secretariat) associated with the late Ernest Mandel.
		Sean says we have to have working-class unity.
		Sean says that means supporting the suppression of Protestants.
	www.workersliberty.org /node/4581 (6002 words)

	ENGAGE - Comments about What is left wing antisemitism? - Sean Matgamna
		Mikey posted on October 23, 2005 at 07:04:58 AM The Alliance for Workers Liberty (AWL) is quite a unique movement on the revolutionary left, by the mere fact that it recognises that Israel has the right to exist.
		In the mid 1980s it underwent a change of policy from the more common line taken by revolutionary leftist organisations in favour of a secular democratic state of Palestine and supporting the effective destruction of Israel to the stance it now takes which is that of “Two Nations, Two States”.
		As Matgamna notes, AWLs own suggestion of a slogan for Socialist Alliance of “Israel out of the Occupied Territories” was voted down in favour “Free Palestine” and “Victory to the Intifada”.
	www.engageonline.org.uk /blog/comment.php?id=51 (645 words)

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