i'm perfectly happy to focus on class, moreso than is currently done at present within UAF. as i say, i also believe most SWP members take that default stance in their actions and speeches within UAF anyway. but if you're counterposing your argument against mine in context with this thread (and with no equivalent criticism of the majority of the thread who are equally critical of my position) then expect me to assume you're default defending their tactical position; i.e., that community events such as this Troxy one (which actually, when you look into it a little more, was actually organised by the moderates of the local Isoc, not wannabe terrorists) should be actively protested with equal vigour to the EDL demonstration.
if you genuinely can't see the difference between the two, then you're operating from fucking Mars.
But I haven't passed comment on Troxy.
You seem to be saying that
by not commenting I must therefore be wholly in favour of protesting against it. What strange logic.
As it happens, I know sweet fuck all about this Troxy shindig, nor anything about its organisers. Hence why I haven't commented. I know, I know, it's very novel isn't it?
I do know a little about how UAF operate, and of the deeply contradictory and confused approach to 'community cohesion' (eurgh - another term I despise) displayed by the SWP, however, so I am commenting on that.
I don't think any section of society, if espousing reactionary views, should be above and beyond reproach. I also recognise, however, that in terms of threat, fundies of all colours and creeds are pretty low down the pecking order, whereas yer EDL's are drawing out thousands on a fairly frequent basis; ergo this is where the focus should be.
Somewhere along the way, the SWP got themselves all into a tizwas with multiculturalism; and consequentially display the most appalling double standards and patriarchalism, supported by some very confused logic and a lot of moral indignation on behalf of 'teh Muslims', as if they were some homogeneous and exclusive club completely separated and isolated from every other section of society. And it really isn't doing anybody any good. I'd hoped that the Respect debacle might have shifted perspectives amongst the SWP, and for a time I think it may have started to, but then along came the EDL and the whole charade got reduced to pantomime. It is very unbecoming, and I'm at a loss to see where the socialism in all this is supposed to be.
