Alex Callinicos/SWP vs Laurie Penny/New Statesman Facebook handbags

[Captain Hurrah]

What is Laurie Penny doing on a page about the far left?

 

[Blagsta]

What's she doing on a fucking sabcat t-shirt?!?

 

[DaveCinzano]

Bankrolling the rest of their operation I would imagine

 

[Brixton Hatter]

what is Ken doing on a tumblr page about fashion ?

He needs a "knew suit" apparently

 

[Brixton Hatter]

What's she doing on a fucking sabcat t-shirt?!?

I'm afraid Sabcat have been doing that t-shirt for nearly two years. I think they brought it out when she just started getting known around the time of the Nov 2010 student riots...and probably before people had twigged about her.

I've never seen anyone wearing one...

 

[DotCommunist]

Chavez could do with a better tailor as well, he looks like 20 pounds of shit in a 15 pound bag there

 

[love detective]

wtf.

'Thanks to @katelizharris for sending us this photo of her lefty friends Claire McIntyre and Jacob Bloomfield'

The NatBol girls could show them a thing or two about fashion/anti-faschion

 

[Captain Hurrah]

Our Combat Girlfriends.

With having a mild interest in the fringe of Russian, right-wing nationalist politics, there's also the Eurasian Youth Union.

 

[DotCommunist]

That site is unfindable now but you used to be able to google your way their with the search term 'bolshevik porn'

It was hot and wrong.

 

[love detective]

They Have Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms

 

[revol68]

I'm very ashamed of myself, though in my defence if their is one thing to be said for Bolshevism and Nazism, they both had a good sense of aesthetic.

 

[Fruitloop]

I am so confused by all this. Who is the dead girl? Why has that man got two nipples?

Remind me not to read this thread when I'm at work.

 

[DotCommunist]

scarumunga and his superflous third nipple

 

[Captain Hurrah]

That site is unfindable now but you used to be able to google your way their with the search term 'bolshevik porn'

It was hot and wrong.

Neo-Eurasianists.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed
I've been told that there's a demonstration at 6pm at Scotland Yard. I'll be there, reporting. ‪#Tomlinson‬ ‪#Metpolice‬

https://twitter.com/PennyRed/status/225962043235258368

 

[ViolentPanda]

"dissent entrepeneur"

Turning rebellion into money, as Jones and Strummer had it.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

I saw our Penny at the Ian Tomlinson demo outside Scotland Yard yesterday. I was a bit disappointed she didn't get involved in any of the noise and chanting. She must have had a sore throat from Greece.

Expect 500 angry words on this in the Indy next week.

 

[Bakunin]

https://twitter.com/PennyRed/status/225962043235258368

If I was still actively doing press for local groups then I wouldn't let her near anything involving groups I was working with. I don't take her seriously as a journalist and I don't believe for a second that she genuinely shares the convictions and ideas of the groups she writes about. Not only is she useless at her job, she's definitely untrustworthy IMHO.

 

[barney_pig]

I saw our Penny at the Ian Tomlinson demo outside Scotland Yard yesterday. I was a bit disappointed she didn't get involved in any of the noise and chanting. She must have had a sore throat from Greece.

Expect 500 angry words on this in the Indy next week.

"If you haven't got a spare Strepsil, then you are a part of the problem!"

 

[love detective]

dunno if it's just me, but her Indy piece here seems to be terribly & awkwardly written - have all her sub editors fucked off and left her to her own shite?

 

[_angel_]

dunno if it's just me, but her Indy piece here seems to be terribly & awkwardly written - have all her sub editors fucked off and left her to her own shite?

Blimey that's a terribly written article (and I know the Independent aren't well known for hiring people who can actually write).

 

[Fruitloop]

Other stuff is better?

 

[DotCommunist]

dunno if it's just me, but her Indy piece here seems to be terribly & awkwardly written - have all her sub editors fucked off and left her to her own shite?

given how she's mugged them off in the past....

 

[rekil]

dunno if it's just me, but her Indy piece here seems to be terribly & awkwardly written - have all her sub editors fucked off and left her to her own shite?

First line is a lie isn't it?

Quality research here.

Lots of ordinary working people have seen their homes cleared and levelled <etc etc>

"How many homes?"
"Lots."

 

[love detective]

great sensitivity shown with this

Since it's Batman Day, everyone read this essay on @newinquiry that I helped edit.

 

[butchersapron]

Alexander Cockburn died.

 

[articul8]

but the flame of journalistic integrity lives on

 

[Bakunin]

Alexander Cockburn died.

Does that mean we'll be spared his constant stream of bile about Orwell, then? I always thought it was somewhat sad that he chose to pursue his father's vendetta, even after Claud Cockburn was exposed by Orwell as being, at best, an entirely credulous purveyor of Moscow's line or, at worst, a knowingly mendacious mouthpiece masquerading as a journalist of any real substance.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Not that Blair would ever knowingly lie, obviously

 

[phildwyer]

" The Greek Golden Dawn Party has its equivalents across the Continent, including in Britain, and it is into this climate of violent hostility towards migrants and foreigners that the Olympic Games, a notional celebration of team spirit across borders, is arriving."

Blimey.