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

[DotCommunist]

Get everyone else to do your research then why dontcha!

crowdsourcing the facts, pocketing the pay

 

[rekil]

Begging a load of randoms on the internet to do your job for you - That's internationalism!

Might as well make this the laugh at Bragg thread as well for now.

You don't have to take sides in the cycle of retribution that is escalating in Gaza and Israel to know that it has to stop

That's like saying in Apartheid SA we didn't have to take sides. Apartheid Israel is an occupier and oppressor.

The ANC weren't firing missiles at Johannesburg

 

[DotCommunist]

Begging a load of randoms on the internet to do your job for you - That's internationalism!

Everytime I see that phrase I think of that bloke from bullseye going 'Lets see what you could have written' and towing in an article before the bemused faces of the twitterati.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Lazycuntism

 

[Bakunin]

Laurie Penny ‏@PennyRed
Writing on welfare, disability cuts and Atos for @newstatesman. Would anyone like to chat to me about their personal experience?

Given that her grasp of honestly reporting the truth in her 'journalism' is about the same as that of an ATOS medical professional writing up an assessment, no.

 

[redsquirrel]

That'll be five successive generations of the Benn family in parliament. Must be a record?

She's not actually in parliament yet, so hopefully it won't get past four.

 

[Captain Hurrah]

Haha not me. I think a few of us created pages like that around the same time.

Here it is.

Here's yours.

 

[mk12]

I didn't realise it still existed! Barnabus likes "Rage against the Machine, the Levellers, and any African music."

 

[The39thStep]

I didn't realise it still existed! Barnabus likes "Rage against the Machine, the Levellers, and any African music."

Why We Should Fight Against Football and Other Backward Vacillations in the Working Class

A brilliant and excellent article here from Socialist Review (which is also brilliant) by Chris Bambery, one of the leading members of the Socialist Workers Party:-
http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj73/bambery.htm

"Socialism will not be a society where 22 men still play football (far less where another 30,000 people will pay to watch them) or men and women crash up and down a swimming pool competing against each other and the clock. Physical recreation and play are about the enjoyment of one's body, human company and the environment. Sport is not. "​

"Naturally socialists understand why people take part in or watch sport. It is an escape from the harsh world in which we live"​

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The future's uncertain and the end is always near​

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[articul8]

If 22 men (and/or women) can't have a kick around it ain't my revolution

 

[rekil]

swimming pools are increasingly laned-off and extremely competitive, intimidating people who want a leisurely swim up and down and making it impossible for a family or a group of friends to play.

 

[ViolentPanda]

crowdsourcing the facts, pocketing the pay

Knowing Laura, she thinks getting the facts from the people - little bit communism.

 

[rekil]

Given that her grasp of honestly reporting the truth in her 'journalism' is about the same as that of an ATOS medical professional writing up an assessment, no.

If it wasn't such a serious issue, the idea of sending her something made up yet plausible would be appealing.

 

[barney_pig]

I live to smash capitalism! I build the movement (anti-war, anti-borders, pro-palestine, anti-israel, boycott coke, boycott nestle, boycott marks and spencers, anti-globalisation, anti-consumerism and many many more) 7 days a week. I am a fighter for peacful world, where people will be happy to live with things they need, and people won't be brainwashed by consumerism, and the Daily Mail telling them what to think. As I am privately educated, I know how the Nazi-fascist-ruling class think. We need to form a party of people who don't believe everything they are told by the corporate media and capitalist newspapers. Build the Party, Build the Movement!!!

 

[barney_pig]

I live to smash capitalism! I build the movement (anti-war, anti-borders, pro-palestine, anti-israel, boycott coke, boycott nestle, boycott marks and spencers, anti-globalisation, anti-consumerism and many many more) 7 days a week. I am a fighter for peacful world, where people will be happy to live with things they need, and people won't be brainwashed by consumerism, and the Daily Mail telling them what to think. As I am privately educated, I know how the Nazi-fascist-ruling class think. We need to form a party of people who don't believe everything they are told by the corporate media and capitalist newspapers. Build the Party, Build the Movement!!!

Your a star

 

[Balbi]

Oh god, that article makes my brain curl up and try and crawl out of my ear. It takes a good idea, that sport is escapism from every day life and just thrashes it into incomprehesible guff.

 

[frogwoman]

I live to smash capitalism! I build the movement (anti-war, anti-borders, pro-palestine, anti-israel, boycott coke, boycott nestle, boycott marks and spencers, anti-globalisation, anti-consumerism and many many more) 7 days a week. I am a fighter for peacful world, where people will be happy to live with things they need, and people won't be brainwashed by consumerism, and the Daily Mail telling them what to think. As I am privately educated, I know how the Nazi-fascist-ruling class think. We need to form a party of people who don't believe everything they are told by the corporate media and capitalist newspapers. Build the Party, Build the Movement!!!

 

[cesare]

I live to smash capitalism! I build the movement (anti-war, anti-borders, pro-palestine, anti-israel, boycott coke, boycott nestle, boycott marks and spencers, anti-globalisation, anti-consumerism and many many more) 7 days a week. I am a fighter for peacful world, where people will be happy to live with things they need, and people won't be brainwashed by consumerism, and the Daily Mail telling them what to think. As I am privately educated, I know how the Nazi-fascist-ruling class think. We need to form a party of people who don't believe everything they are told by the corporate media and capitalist newspapers. Build the Party, Build the Movement!!!

Journo commodification of anti-capitalism.

 

[frogwoman]

x-factor = trash for the sheep

 

[barney_pig]

I think I had one of these once...

 

[frogwoman]

Workers of all countries unite! (except israeli workers)

 

[frogwoman]

and anyone who likes 22 men kicking a ball around and consumeristic programmes like britain's got talent. especially if they're israeli, but even if they're not

 

[Balbi]

*grinds teeth at ridiculous notions of sport*

 

[not-bono-ever]

I have skimmed most of the 195 pages of this so far- penny red is not a Chris Morris art happening hoax is she ?

 

[Brixton Hatter]

I have skimmed most of the 195 pages of this so far- penny red is not a Chris Morris art happening hoax is she ?

sadly not, though sometimes it's so brilliant you have to assume it might be

 

[co-op]

I have skimmed most of the 195 pages of this so far- penny red is not a Chris Morris art happening hoax is she ?

*my own arse - I am up you*

 

[The39thStep]

Lisa Egan, a disability rights activist, has come to meet me here because it’s one of the few accessible terminuses on the Hammersmith and City line, and she wants to talk to me about maps.
Lisa is four foot eight and fast-moving enough in her chair that commuters heading home early have to steer themselves quickly while not-looking at her with the studied not-looking that working Londoners reserve for anyone visibly distressed, disabled, poor, or mentally ill on public transport. Rolling her machine with practiced effort onto the Hammersmith train, Lisa and I talk about the fight to stop the right-wing Coalition government currently squatting in Westminster – the very shiniest stop on the Jubilee line – from slashing welfare benefits and driving the poor and sick out of the city.

 

[where to]

There are so many issues with that its not actually clear which one your drawing attention to.

 

[barney_pig]

Termini

 

[frogwoman]

Lisa is four foot eight and fast-moving enough in her chair that commuters heading home early have to steer themselves quickly while not-looking at her with the studied not-looking that working Londoners reserve for anyone visibly distressed, disabled, poor, or mentally ill on public transport. Rolling her machine with practiced effort onto the Hammersmith train,

she can't help herself can she?