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

[Bakunin]

Content however worth about ten bob.

You must be feeling charitable.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

i wouldn't even guess much over 80K for Graun journos either tbh...

You have to realise that their senior, long established people will be the 150k types. The idea that Polly Toynbee is earning 150k plus for a career spanning decades and Penny is earning that on a paper with far lower circulation and online traffic and a career of barely 3 years is proper funny!

 

[The39thStep]

Bloody hell ..............http://dangerousideas.org.uk/

This is the sort of event that Laura Penny would die to go to its a blend of street , global and smart . She could turn up pissed on vodka, get into an argument, fall over and stomp outside to roll a fag and look young and haunted.

 

[barney_pig]

Bloody hell ..............http://dangerousideas.org.uk/

This is the sort of event that Laura Penny would die to go to its a blend of street , global and smart . She could turn up pissed on vodka, get into an argument, fall over and stomp outside to roll a fag and look young and haunted.

same old crap from the former food critic of Respect, the most dangerous idea would be Claire Solomon explaining to the Islamist brethren why she reverted

 

[killer b]

christ, that's horrifying.

 

[barney_pig]

Tansy Hoskins

 

[killer b]

the list of speakers does seem to be heavy on middle class academics.

 

[barney_pig]

http://dangerousideas.org.uk/index.php/video/143-video-wall-why-we-came-to-dangerous-ideas

edit: didn't want prejudged, but i have now watched all of these

 

[The39thStep]

She writes on the intersection of gender, race, class and sexuality.

 

[barney_pig]

I popped in at the cunterfire website and discovered that there is a national stop the war demo today.
Biggest ever?

 

[chilango]

I trust you'll be there with a pile "why we need the workers bomb" leaflets then?

 

[The39thStep]

the list of speakers does seem to be heavy on middle class academics.

Innit

Kate Tempest is a world famous wordsmith hailing from the housing estates of South London.

Robert Montgomery is a situationist street artist. Defacing public billboards with commentary on the nature of existence under modern capitalism

Sambatage! SOAS's infamous samba band comes to the stage right from the beating heart of the protest movements. Get ready to get pumped!

Gemini Is a British/Carribean/Iranian rapper from West London. Gemini is slowly climbing his way through the underground with his lyrical ability and his straightforward approach. Not afraid to speak his mind, Gemini tells us "initially I didn't start out writing for political reasons, but then I reached an age where I realised these things affect me just as much as everyone else."

Jonny Favourite is an acclaimed skateboarder and editor of Feral Youth:

 

[barney_pig]

when is the Proletarian democracy summer school festival of resistance? the line up so far looks enticing

 

[barney_pig]

I trust you'll be there with a pile "why we need the workers bomb" leaflets then?

the "why Proletarian Democracy isn't marching" leaflets aren't back from the printers

 

[The39thStep]

when is the Proletarian democracy summer school festival of resistance? the line up so far looks enticing

should be the next project. We need to strike out new ground ;book fares of resistance clearly aren't sufficient, festival/carnival is a bit hackneyed imo, bring and buy sale of resistance doesn't do us justice either.

We need a think tank and someone with a felt tip pen and a white board, in the meantime I will starts a new thread

 

[barney_pig]

a possible opportunity for praxis?

Newcastle Counterfire Event
Defeating the 1% - a short course in rebellion
Saturday 16 June, 12-5pm
Bar Loco, 22 Leazes Park Road, Newcastle

Recommended donation: £5 waged or £2 unwaged

Sessions on:

- the working class and protest movements today
- confronting racism, oppression and war
- revolutions past, present and future

Speakers include: video blogger and campaigner Sanum Ghafoor, PCS activist and chair of Glasgow Coalition of Resistance Cat Boyd, blogger and regular Counterfire contributor Alex Snowdon.

Going: 9
maybe: 12
invited: 443

 

[articul8]

The event will be covered by Hoxton FM. Of course it will!

 

[DaveCinzano]

The event will be covered by Hoxton FM. Of course it will!

I thought your comment was just a lazy rehashing of obvious clichés.

Then I scrolled down the page

 

[The39thStep]

a possible opportunity for praxis?

Reminds me of when Love Detective and Spanky(?) hacked the Milton Keynes RESPECT board

 

[rekil]

Bloody hell ..............http://dangerousideas.org.uk/

This is the sort of event that Laura Penny would die to go to its a blend of street , global and smart . She could turn up pissed on vodka, get into an argument, fall over and stomp outside to roll a fag and look young and haunted.

She's down as a speaker at Marxism. Into the cockroach nest.

 

[frogwoman]

the "why Proletarian Democracy isn't marching" leaflets aren't back from the printers

Hahaha I will so do this.

 

[rekil]

Slightly amusing twitterings from Chicago.

Prediction: 'anarchist terrorists' will soon become the new folk-horror used to demonise protest, frighten rest of us into behaving

Caught up w protest at Jackson and La Salle. Seems to be no plan. Seattle 1999, there was a plan. Just saying, like.

Next day.

Where are protesters right now? help?

Hey NATO! Whaddya say? How many kids did you kill today?

Storm clouds are gathering and Mordor is on the move #nonato #riotcops

Lotr wank cannibalised from her own Workers' Girder piece.

Solidarity all round. #noNATO

4 hours later.

Held up my press pass and got shoved with sticks a second time

All that 'solidarity' melts into air. Don't hit me, hit them.

combabe

 

[butchersapron]

Did/does she later answer this question and why it was ok - even imperative - for them to do so?

Hey NATO! Whaddya say? How many kids did you kill today?

 

[frogwoman]

She's probably going to claim that workers' girder piece as hers

 

[rekil]

Did/does she later answer this question and why is was ok even imperative for them to do so?

Apols combabe, still awaiting clarification I'm afraid. I have detected a certain 'fuzziness' in her attitude. I fancy a repeat performance of the Libdem support denials.

It won't be long before someone does a proper 'Why LP is shit' piece surely.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Probably won't be long before she holds up her press card for a third time, & gets battered. If she hasn't legged it by then.

Ta for posting those tweets copliker, fuckin' classics.

 

[love detective]

christ i wish i'd never went near her twitter feed

Photo of me getting shoved by a cop at yesterday's march. You can clearly see my press pass in my hand. By @kateharnedyhttp://katehphoto.photoshelter.com/image/I0000JCeA4gk.YeM

Same theme continues, they've a right to hit them but not me

 

[love detective]

although every cloud as they say

http://twitter.com/PennyRed/status/204396850588033024/photo/1

 

[love detective]

party at mollycrabapple's (vomit)

http://twitter.com/PennyRed/status/202400773747916801/photo/1/large

does the bottles of moet champagne indicate she's now a hard up student pretending to be a hard up student pretending to be a champagne socialist, or something a bit more straightforward

 

[danny la rouge]

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinio...otesters-are-watching-police-too-7769674.html

It's hard to tell those taking pictures for the press from those who are simply holding up their cameras because it makes them feel powerful.

Hold up your cameras and feel powerful, brothers and sisters.