14th November Movement for Left Unity

[el-ahrairah]

well, apparently the next branch meeting will be a discussion on class and what it means. so maybe i was a little hasty...

 

[SpineyNorman]

well, apparently the next branch meeting will be a discussion on class and what it means. so maybe i was a little hasty...

You should do a PD intervention at that, arguing that you're only w/c if you have to wear blue overalls at work (white or brown ones are m/c)

 

[frogwoman]

You should do a PD intervention at that, arguing that you're only w/c if you have to wear blue overalls at work (white or brown ones are m/c)

Brown overalls are fash surely?

 

[el-ahrairah]

You should do a PD intervention at that, arguing that you're only w/c if you have to wear blue overalls at work (white or brown ones are m/c)

i would but i have already become disillusioned with Left Unity and withdrawn my interests. i just don't know how to unsubscribe from their emails.

 

[DotCommunist]

You should do a PD intervention at that, arguing that you're only w/c if you have to wear blue overalls at work (white or brown ones are m/c)

Hardhats or its just soft-handed non work.

 

[DotCommunist]

Brown overalls are fash surely?

like all those fascist friars and mendicant preachers of the medieval period

 

[Balbi]

I always thought Riefenstahls follow up to Triumph of The Will was a far better film.

 

[SpineyNorman]

Brown overalls are fash surely?

I'm thinking open all hours here (or was that a frock coat or summat) - petty bourgeois innit

 

[frogwoman]

No pasaran to the brown-overalled mob

 

[DotCommunist]

I'm thinking open all hours here (or was that a frock coat or summat) - petty bourgeois innit

fourthriech handles!

 

[Balbi]

G-g--ggggggoebbels!

 

[Balbi]

I find the rise of Bianca Todd as Left Unity go to for quotes fascinating. She couldn't get re-admitted to her local Labour party last year, despite repeated attempts including going through to a tribunal about it. I can't provide more detail, but from the locals I hear she's quite a character.

 

[treelover]

I've seen her speak, she seems very honest and compassionate, enough for me.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

I find the rise of Bianca Todd as Left Unity go to for quotes fascinating. She couldn't get re-admitted to her local Labour party last year, despite repeated attempts including going through to a tribunal about it. I can't provide more detail, but from the locals I hear she's quite a character.

Why did she leave or get chucked out in the first place?

 

[belboid]

National Council nominations are out now. It appears all the officer posts & regional reps will be uncontested (with some spare regional spots). About 40 standing for the 15 seat national slate - including what looks like the entire CPGB.

http://leftunity.org/internal-elections-2014/

e2a: 15 'Communist Platform' candidates out of 44 in all. It's almost as if they don't really want to be elected.

 

[treelover]

Felicity Dowling

One of 'the 47' and still very militant?

I'd vote for Salman Shaheen,

if I was a member.

 

[treelover]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/bbctwo/live


Principal speaker Salman Shaheen on Daily Politics, actually more Oxbridge than I thought.(from 12.26)

 

[butchersapron]

You mean this?

Oxbridge is being unfairly criticised for discriminating against minority students in the same way it is often unfairly criticised for discriminating against working class students.

 

[treelover]

no, he went to Cambridge and he sounds posher than I thought he would

positions himself on the 'moderate' wing of LU as well

 

[nino_savatte]

no, he went to Cambridge and he sounds posher than I thought he would

positions himself on the 'moderate' wing of LU as well

I once had a scrap with him on Liberal Conspiracy. He described himself as a Marxist and I laughed.

 

[el-ahrairah]

"
Lee Jasper, a quite well known Lambeth resident who was involved in that protest against the MOPAC meeting a few weeks ago, has expressed an interest in standing in the local council elections on 22 May and was interested to know if he could stand under the Left Unity banner.
The key issue he wants to stand on is racism in the borough, including the police, but also the deselection of a popular local Black woman by the Labour Party and her replacement by a white candidate (in a majority black ward) which has caused some shock waves through the local Labour party.
Lee is going to meet with a couple of us on Monday to talk more about his idea, since I thought it was at least an opportunity that we should consider, though I know we agreed not to stand any candidates. This is because Lee Jasper has a profile and some local support so he could get a credible vote.
We can discuss it at the next branch meeting on the 3rd April (venue TBC) and make a decision there.
"

oh dear.

 

[butchersapron]

Lee is going to meet with a couple of us on Monday to talk more about his idea, since I thought it was at least an opportunity that we should consider, though I know we agreed not to stand any candidates. This is because Lee Jasper has a profile and some local support so he could get a credible vote.

i.e Because jasper wants to and you're so tied to the past and the need not to rock boats that you cant say no to this multiple failed candidate. Pathetic.

 

[el-ahrairah]

nothing involved with jee jasper is credible. you'd have to be out of your mind to think that lee jasper appeals to anyone. except himself.

 

[J Ed]

Didn't Jasper stand unsuccessfully for Respect AFTER Galloway's bad sexual etiquette comments?

 

[butchersapron]

Yes.

 

[DotCommunist]

Didn't Jasper stand unsuccessfully for Respect AFTER Galloway's bad sexual etiquette comments?

the best thing to come out of that debacle was a hilarious jasper & george radio advert talking over cheesy beats

still on the web:



http://soundcloud.com/lee-jasper3/george-galloway-lee-jasper

 

[Nigel Irritable]

According to the WW and Pete McLaren reports numbers of branch reps showing up to national steering committee meetings are rapidly falling, while some detached from reality types are blathering about needing 5,000 members by the end of the year.

Mid-sized left sect thinking its a mass party = recipe for disaster

 

[ska invita]

"
Lee Jasper, a quite well known Lambeth resident who was involved in that protest against the MOPAC meeting a few weeks ago, has expressed an interest in standing in the local council elections on 22 May and was interested to know if he could stand under the Left Unity banner.
The key issue he wants to stand on is racism in the borough, including the police, but also the deselection of a popular local Black woman by the Labour Party and her replacement by a white candidate (in a majority black ward) which has caused some shock waves through the local Labour party.
Lee is going to meet with a couple of us on Monday to talk more about his idea, since I thought it was at least an opportunity that we should consider, though I know we agreed not to stand any candidates. This is because Lee Jasper has a profile and some local support so he could get a credible vote.
We can discuss it at the next branch meeting on the 3rd April (venue TBC) and make a decision there.
"

oh dear.

who said that?

isnt it too late now any way? internal elections have closed last week, and the democratic structures make it impossible to just fly in a candidate without members voting them in.

 

[butchersapron]

Unless it's jasper -then there are no rules, and the LU sec decides.

 

[ska invita]

Unless it's jasper -then there are no rules, and the LU sec decides.

i cant see it - so far the commitment to democracy has been tight.
And I might be wrong but I think Andrew Burgin and Kate Hudson both left Respect because of the GG bad sexual conduct thing, which doesnt stand Jasper well in their eyes (youd have thought )