John Pearson

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Obituary: Rita Grant

Irish freedom and socialist revolution

Greater Manchester annual general fiasco

Unison pulls plug

Tameside careworkers

Unity crumbles before Scargill

Socialist Alliances in crisis

Progress on NW slate

Socialist Alliances

Unprincipled manoeuvres

Left unity

Royston Bull: facts and Fisc

United Socialists north west launch

Obituary: Paul Smith

Unity rejected

Greater Manchester Socialist Alliance

Tameside solidarity

Unity and criticism

North West union rights campaign

No choice for voters

Open letter to John Nicholson, Greater Manchester Socialist Alliance convenor, from GMSA member John Pearson

Manchester SA collapses

English Socialist Alliance?

Scargill constitution enshrined

Postive and negative

Manchester Socialist Alliance relaunch

Homophobia thrives in SLP

The following is an open letter to all Socialist Labour Party branches by voided party member in Manchester John Pearson. It concerns the attitude of the party leadership to the homophobic publication, Economic and Philosophic Science Review

Not compatible with democracy

At a branch meeting of Stockport Socialist Labour Party on November 28 1996 followers of the Economic and Philosophical Science Review, led by its founder-editor Roy Bull, passed a ‘motion’ calling for the expulsion of comrade John Pearson, the branch secretary. They alleged he was a member of the CPGB. John Pearson has since been excluded from a branch meeting recently chaired by Phil Griffin, backed by his homophobic and sectarian allies in the EPSR. We publish below the exchange between John Pearson and Arthur Scargill

Sectarian critic turns putrified witch hunter

Members of the EPSR have turned anti-communist witch hunters who brand those that challenge their particularly nauseating brand of sectarianism as CPGB members. Here we reprint an edited version of SLP member John Pearson’s reply to Roy Bull’s accusations