---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Örsan Şenalp <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 5:13 AM Subject: [Networkedlabour] Fwd: Peter Waterman Suspended From UnionBook...by Eric Lee of LabourStart Fame?! To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]

forwarding the below ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Örsan Şenalp <[email protected]> Date: 25 July 2014 00:10 Subject: Re: Peter Waterman Suspended From UnionBook...by Eric Lee of LabourStart Fame?! To: Peter Waterman <[email protected]> Cc: Dan Gallin <[email protected]>, Asbjørn Wahl < [email protected]>, [email protected], WSFDiscuss List <[email protected]>, Dave Hollis < [email protected]>, Walton Pantland <[email protected]>, Networked Labour <[email protected]>, Debate is a listserve that attempts to promote information and analyses of interest to the independent left in South and Southern Africa <[email protected]>, Sid Shniad < [email protected]>, USI Live <[email protected]>, "Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)" <[email protected]>, AAWL Labour News < [email protected]>, TIE-Netherlands <[email protected]>, Pierre Rousset <[email protected]>, Peter Dwyer <[email protected]>, Peter Hall-Jones <[email protected]>, Dave Spooner <[email protected]>, Kim Scipes <[email protected]>, [email protected], Christophe Aguiton <[email protected]>, ILRIG <[email protected]>, Derek Blackadder < [email protected]>, Eddie <[email protected]>, Bill Fletcher Jr < [email protected]>, Ali Karamat <[email protected]>, " [email protected]" <[email protected]>, [email protected], Green Left Parramatta <[email protected]>, Carlos Mejia < [email protected]>, Chris Carlsson <[email protected]>, InternationalSolidarity Conference2013Dublin < [email protected]>, bongani Masuku < [email protected]>, tni <[email protected]>, [email protected], Michael Letwin <[email protected]> Dear Peter, you are lucky that you didn't get a drone attack or your house occupied.. I did the below post and uploaded your letter on Scribd, this would open the discussion up hopefulluy.. amazing how everybody sits quite against this barbarism being defended openly by LabourStart. In my humble opinion if there won't be a LabourStart campaing against Israel's barbarism, then it means there is a need for a homcooked campaign against the LaborStart's zionism. In solidarity, "I have received the below open letter from someone who is very well-known by devoting his life time efforts to international and global solidarity and social emancipation: Peter Waterman. Peter, though, did put a stress on labour internationalism of which he saw that the solidarity between unions is only one and a small part in the broad picture. Coming from a Jewish family himslef he, has been openly critical of Zionism and Israel’s ever-expanding a barbaric occupation on Palestinian territory. Peter had been actively blogging about global labour and union solidarity in his blog page on Unionbook, since 2008-9. I say he ‘had’ because, the ‘owner’ of the Unionbook and its mother project LabourStart, Eric Lee, self-claiming ‘democratic socialist’ yet who is also known with his over sympathy to the Israeli state, who is the owner and the administrator of the Unionbook did ban Waterman’s user account two days ago. Eric created the Unionbook on Ning servers, which belongs to the corporation owned by Zuckerberg’s ex-partner -also the creator of Napster. Altouhg Unionbook thought as a social network site for all the unionists of the world it did manage to attract at around 5600 international unionist as its users. Lee cut off Peter’s communication, as Israel cuts off Gazza’s roads, food and electriciry. So now Peter has no access to his acount, pages, posts etc. on Unionbook, so he can not responde this move using his own blog page. In the below open letter Peter makes a guess about the possible reason behind this ‘occupation’ of his cybersland by Lee and invites him to discuss the issue publicly -may be a ‘two network admin solution’ (?). According to Peter Waterman the ban came right after he re-blogged Lee’s own article where Lee openly supports recent war/sate-terrorism launched on Gazza. Waterman gives details from his perspective and indicates the limits of the marriage between ideologies like Zionism, as well as other nationalisms and internationalism. Now you can read on, as Peter always sez: http://snuproject.wordpress.com/2014/07/24/open-letter-from-peter-waterman-a... View this document on Scribd" On 24 July 2014 21:30, peter waterman <[email protected]> wrote:

24.07.14

*Peter Waterman Suspended/Banned from Union Book:*

An Open Letter to the Labour Internationalist Community

[email protected]

​See attachment for more.

Feel free to copy the attachment through to your own networks.

In solidarity,

Peter Waterman​

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