(Thanks Malca for alerting us to this.)
From ABC Online, LateNightLive, 31/5/06 (a show hosted by Phillip Adams) ...
Last Thursday night [26/5/06] in London a group of left-wing philosophers, academics, journalists and bloggers, got together to launch something called the Euston Manifesto.
All of the signatories are disillusioned with the Left, especially over the way the Iraq War has been opposed, and over what they see as the Left's blanket anti-Americanism and indulgent support for reactionary regimes and movements around the world.
The idea behind the manifesto is to reaffirm the "authentic values" of the Left; support for democracy, human rights...and freedom. It has taken off like crazy in the online-world: apparently there are more than two thousand signatories, including British Labour MP Gisela Stuart, Francis Wheen, Kannan Makiya and many, many more.
Phillip Adams interviews three promiinent supporters of the Manifesto. Follow this link to download and listen to the programme.
Go to the Euston Manifesto Web site to read the manifesto and "sign on".
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