{"id":33332,"date":"2013-05-14T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/letters-from-our-readers\/33332\/"},"modified":"2013-05-14T05:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T04:00:00","slug":"letters-from-our-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/letters-from-our-readers\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters from our readers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h5>\n      14 May 2013<br \/>\n  <\/h5>\n<p><em>On the World Socialist Web Site<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You are doing a very good job in giving the general reading public all over the world well-researched, balanced news and opinion pieces.<\/p>\n<p>VN<br \/>Cape Town, South Africa<br \/>10 May 2013<\/p>\n<p><em>On<\/em> <em>\u201c<\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2013\/05\/11\/isos-m11.html\"><em>The International Socialist Organization and the imperialist onslaught against Syria<\/em><\/a><em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I hope followers of the ISO will reconsider their affiliation with that dubious organization in light of its support for the building war against Syria. If they want to engage in Marxist politics, they need to turn to the International Committee. Those who are interested in the politics of SYRIZA, the New Anti-Capitalist Party and the ISO are either being duped or are truly warped individuals. The whole pseudo-left is trying to position itself to prop capitalism in its time of crisis. They have proven there is nothing they will not do to accomplish this, all in the name of \u201cleft\u201d politics.<\/p>\n<p>TJM<br \/>Massachusetts, USA<br \/>11 May 2013<\/p>\n<p><em>On \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2013\/05\/10\/boal-m10.html\"> <em>New revelations about filmmakers\u2019 collaboration with CIA on Zero Dark Thirty<\/em><\/a>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Due to a freebie offer at my local video store, I finally watched the film this week. As David states, it is full of \u201cpolitical and moral foulness.\u201d Having stomached <em>The Hurt Locker<\/em>, I could not watch another film by the same director so took what David (and others I know) on trust. They are people of integrity. Now that I have seen it I can easily counter allegations of bias and affirm that it is one of the most nasty and reactionary films I\u2019ve ever seen, especially in its depiction of a post-feminist heroine who simply follows orders, no matter how atrocious they are, and ends the film shedding \u201ccrocodile tears\u201d mandated by a hypocritical director. I\u2019m not surprised by these findings. Now to read some Trotsky for necessary therapy.<\/p>\n<p>Tony W<br \/>10 May 2013<\/p>\n<p><em>On<\/em> <em>\u201c<\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2013\/05\/08\/lond-m08.html\"><em>David North addresses London meeting on the 15th anniversary of the WSWS<\/em><\/a><em>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sounds like a good meeting which was well attended, which was a bit of a surprise to me. Maybe with age I\u2019ve become a bit more pessimistic. Liked what North had to say on trade unions. For me they, with the Labour Party, are the first line of defence that the bourgeoisie use  <\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2013\/05\/14\/corr-m14.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Letters from our readers\">World Socialist Web Site<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 14 May 2013 On the World Socialist Web Site You are doing a very good job in giving the general reading public all over the world well-researched, balanced news and opinion pieces. VNCape Town, South Africa10 May 2013 On \u201cThe International Socialist Organization and the imperialist onslaught against Syria\u201d I hope followers of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}