Situationists once described unions as "whorehouses". There is some truth to that.
What have you got against 6 million working class British people?
14th November Movement for Left Unity
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What have you got against 6 million working class British people?
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
They didn't anyway.
They may have but probably not with the same meaning that Ninny is imbuing it with
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
They didn't full stop 
They didn't full stop
I find it hard to imagine Ninny would make summat up or get summat wrong??
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
How did you work that out, Spankhorn?
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Have you a link to a situationist writing it?
barney_pig
Po-cha-na-quar-hip
They misspelled labour too
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
And rape is good apparently.
http://leftunity.org/socialist-platform-statement-of-aims-and-principles/#comment-26754
The Trots, CPGB, etc have launched a platform, is it going to be the same old same old?
The Trots, CPGB, etc have launched a platform, is it going to be the same old same old?
http://internationalsocialistnetwor...ft-unity-the-case-for-the-left-party-platform
Tom Walker(ISN) replies here, some good points, imo.
Tom Walker(ISN) replies here, some good points, imo.
Describing them as occupants of whorehouses ninny
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
I was being slightly tongue in cheek btw. This is indicated by the
Then I thought of Unison under the leadership of Dave Prentis and how he's sold out his members. But you can't see that. Can you, Longy Spankhorn (keep spanking that horn) nor are you capable of understanding irony either, so it seems.
I guess you weren't around when NALGO (one of Unison's constituent parts) was referred to as "Not a lot going on" by its own members?
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
American spelling innit?
J Ed
Follow Back Pro Expropriation
We're supposed to use American spellings as well as nonsense like 'people of colour' or is that 'color'?
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
I took the quote from a website (C&P'ed it). The Australians also spell it without a "u".
_angel_
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I was being slightly tongue in cheek btw. This is indicated by the
Then I thought of Unison under the leadership of Dave Prentis and how he's sold out his members. But you can't see that. Can you, Longy Spankhorn (keep spanking that horn) nor are you capable of understanding irony either, so it seems.
I guess you weren't around when NALGO (one of Unison's constituent parts) was referred to as "Not a lot going on" by its own members?
Sorry for being younger than you prof
What has the failures of leadership both real and percieved got to do with whether union members are whores or their customers though?
Three "platforms" or by their true name FACTIONS set up by self interested trot groups and their like before the party has even been founded formally?
Won't be much left "unity" with all that going on. The working class can rest easy in their beds tonight, no danger of being called up for the workers militia time for another pint!
As for Workers Power, my arse as that fella on TV says.....
Won't be much left "unity" with all that going on. The working class can rest easy in their beds tonight, no danger of being called up for the workers militia time for another pint!
As for Workers Power, my arse as that fella on TV says.....
JHE
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If you ban factions you end up with a sect like the Social Workers and/or secret factions. If you allow factions, there will be open factions. That's not necessarily a bad thing.
There have been various attempts to set up a left-wing party by gathering existing left-wing groups and individuals. Maybe this new attempt will end up like the poor old Socialist Labour Party, but not necessarily, since it is not dominated by a character like Arthur Scargill. On the other hand, there is also the rather better experience of the Scottish Socialist Party (before Big Tommy's disastrous insistence on suing the News of the Screws).
I wouldn't bet on Left Unity going well, but it's not settled yet. Some leftovers crawling from the rubble of the Workers' Power implosion still blathering about 'defending Muslims' from imaginary 'pogroms' is neither here nor there.
There have been various attempts to set up a left-wing party by gathering existing left-wing groups and individuals. Maybe this new attempt will end up like the poor old Socialist Labour Party, but not necessarily, since it is not dominated by a character like Arthur Scargill. On the other hand, there is also the rather better experience of the Scottish Socialist Party (before Big Tommy's disastrous insistence on suing the News of the Screws).
I wouldn't bet on Left Unity going well, but it's not settled yet. Some leftovers crawling from the rubble of the Workers' Power implosion still blathering about 'defending Muslims' from imaginary 'pogroms' is neither here nor there.
barney_pig
Po-cha-na-quar-hip
J Ed
Follow Back Pro Expropriation
http://leftunity.org/solidarity-not-charity-the-case-for-mutual-aid/ this is well worth reading and tallies with the conclusions that a lot of people here have drawn in the past following discussions of what the attitude of leftists should be to food banks.
JHE
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Some pessimistic people think Left Unity is just going to be a new opportunity for the various factions to slag each other off. Of course it's true that having 'unity' in the name doesn't guarantee unity. A lot depends on the attitude of the people involved and what they really want. If enough want to unite around things they agree on and have their arguments in a comradely way, it might work. Time will tell.
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
the browser im using isnt letting me post things this is just a test sorry
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