Sir, - Some words of wisdom for a confused Labour Party as it contemplates the handover of power from Mr Spring (deified by your own Mr Walsh) to Mr Quinn - and a possible merger with the party of Mr De Rossa. The future of radical politics does not lie with these men - 40to-50-ish, male, with facial hair and political ideologies which constitute the jaded manifestation of a lily-livered, 30-year, post-student-days retreat from the facial hair and political ideologies of Ernesto Che Guevara and Fidel Castro.
The future of radical politics, as it happens, lies with (the UN's) Agenda 21. I wonder if they've read it. - Yours, etc.,
From Michael Smith
Ormond Quay, Dublin 7.