Attendance was very good- estimates range from 250 to 350, either way pretty good for a small group that most detractors reckon is already "over".
The were four speeches, all powerful, from Norman Geras, Eve Garrard, Shalom Lappin and Alan Johnson. Nick Cohen chaired. I found Alan Johnson of Democratiya particularly uplifting, as he reeled through some of the things already achieved by participants, and some of the things to be done. It was passionate, forceful and undeniably left-wing.
The "Pro-war" slur was scotched too- with the presence of two opponents of the Iraq war on the stage.
Anyway, there are some good reports and pix from Paul Burgin, Clive Davis and Dan from Muscular Liberals.
And here's Norm's speech.
And here's Shalom Lappin's speech
And here are a few pictures-
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Although anymore tosh of this order won't make it through...
Your EM report was very good by the way.
Cheers for the hat-tip. It was one of my longer posts, but that was because I was in a hurry. Glad you made it through :)
Mark Twain's telegrammed reposnse to a request for a two-page article from the NYT sums it up:
"NO CAN DO 2 PAGES TWO DAYS. CAN DO 30 PAGES 2 DAYS. NEED 30 DAYS TO DO 2 PAGES."