SOCIALISTS ACTING LIKE STALINISTS? WHO'D'VE DREAMT:

Socialist Party at war as Sheridan says: I'm no drug dealer (HAMISH MACDONELL, 5/29/06, The Scotsman)

THE Scottish Socialist Party descended into open warfare last night when Tommy Sheridan, the former leader, accused a "cabal" of spreading lies to discredit him.
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Mr Sheridan sent an open letter to all SSP members claiming that senior figures in the party, including MSPs, had spread malicious rumours about him, including allegations that he was a drug dealer, that he trafficked women from eastern Europe and that he used prostitutes.

The Glasgow MSP warned that the SSP was in danger of becoming a "gender-obsessed discussion group" rather than a "class-based socialist party".

He said the tactics used against him were nothing more than "a political witch-hunt" redolent of the "dark days of Stalinism".

Village red-faced at butcher's late call to revolution (Adam Sage, 5/30/06, Times of London)

A SMALL village in France has been split by the will left by its late butcher, who bequeathed his house and land to the local council on condition that they were used to help to plan the communist revolution.

Albert Le Roy, a hardline Marxist who died two months ago at the age of 80, amazed his native Goudelin, in Brittany, with a handwritten will discovered in a drawer at his home that said he was leaving his property, valued at €140,000 (£96,000), to the village council “to prepare for communism”.

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 29, 2006 7:56 AM