Firebox run by Counterfire: Champagne socialism.

[equationgirl]

I'm more curious about their 'exciting new office complex' to be honest

 

[DrRingDing]

I'm skint at the moment but a £3 check of the Land Registry might be useful

Nowt of interest....

Address of Property : Lucas House, Argyle Walk; Cromer House, Cromer Street;
Whidborne Buildings, Whidborne Street; and Ferris House,
Whidborne Street

Price Stated : Not Available

Registered Owner(s) : ONE HOUSING GROUP LIMITED (Industrial and Provident
Society No. IP20453R) of 100 Chalk Farm Road, London NW1
8EH.
Lender(s) : Santander UK PLC

http://www.onehousinggroup.co.uk/about-us

 

[DaveCinzano]

Nowt of interest....



http://www.onehousinggroup.co.uk/about-us

Did One also own the property in 2001-2003?

 

[butchersapron]

Industrial and provident society. So a for benefit not profit group. So, yes, of interest.

It does just appear to be a social housing group though.

 

[emanymton]

Are we thinking...SWP?

I don't think she was in the SWP then, or only just joined.

 

[rekil]

I wonder how much trouble was made.

 

[frogwoman]

No thanks

 

[The Pale King]

Eating, drinking and troublemaking? Sounds like the Bullingdon Club.

 

[toblerone3]

Here is some of the background to Clare Solomon and the Char Bar which was in the same venue as the former Counterfire in Cromer St after moving there from the Brunswick Centre in the early noughties. I remember going to the Char Bar in both of its two sites.

http://www.kingscross.co.uk/KXV-2004-019-02

 

[DaveCinzano]

Here is some of the background to Clare Solomon and the Char Bar which was in the same venue as the former Counterfire in Cromer St after moving there from the Brunswick Centre in the early noughties. I remember going to the Char Bar in both of its two sites.

http://www.kingscross.co.uk/KXV-2004-019-02

August 2003:

We had flood by Thames Water. Everything was ruined, all the stock, the final nail in the coffin.

Bizarre.

She certainly sounds like she's had a few trials and tribulations!

 

[butchersapron]

Was then was Allah willed it or are we back on more mundane shit now?

 

[Nice one]

someone should check her lightbulb situation

 

[DaveCinzano]

 

[TruXta]

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I've walked past it many a time, can't remember ever seeing more than 20 people in there. Not much agitation going on either, The Boot next door would be better for that.

 

[DaveCinzano]

I can't believe I didn't make the connection earlier - FireBox (106-108 Cromer Street) is only a few doors down from where the RCP sited its own gallery/bookshop/bunker complex The Edge (92 Cromer Street). Small world.

 

[frogwoman]

What about the worker's institute of Mao Zedong thought?

 

[barney_pig]

deserves a thread of its own really but forward to the great leap overboard!


1. … the ruling elite needs to be overthrown in support of an egalitarian and socialist society with the eradication of a classist society.

“2. Narrow Boats offer an alternative and imaginative approach to direct action by proposing to block the canal system to further the cause of the fight against austerity.”

 

[barney_pig]

The Reesites embrace multitudinous positionism:
"The result was farcical. The “signatories” had proposed that the PA should become a membership organisation - “Individual membership should be a minimum of £1 per month for the waged and free for the unwaged”. But the speaker from West Yorkshire PA declared that the People’s Assembly “shouldn’t be a membership organisation”, since, according to her “amendment”, “a paid membership scheme will exclude some people”. Rather, “Individual members will be encouraged to set up standing orders in favour of the local organisation”, which “may distribute funds to the national organisation in response to requests for funding which are accompanied by a budget and costing”.

This “amendment” was passed by 205 to 174 in the only vote that was actually counted all day. But then the “main motion” was agreed overwhelmingly too. In fact it was unamended - West Yorkshire’s proposal was actually a stand-alone motion: it had not wanted to ‘delete and replace’ anything. The result? The PA is now committed to two mutually exclusive positions simultaneously."

 

[pinkmonkey]

deserves a thread of its own really but forward to the great leap overboard!


1. … the ruling elite needs to be overthrown in support of an egalitarian and socialist society with the eradication of a classist society.

“2. Narrow Boats offer an alternative and imaginative approach to direct action by proposing to block the canal system to further the cause of the fight against austerity.”

Yep, Clare has just bought a little boat. And that's how she came to my attention. And a quick search of her name on here makes me think, 'this needs watching.'

No one gave a flying fuck about the 'blockade' unsurprisingly. I am deeply suspicious of the motives here and I think our community is being used. Seem to be seeing a bit of a swappie invasion - that 'grabbing hold' of a 'fashionable' community (yes the London boating community suddenly finds itself hip), and manipulating it for your own ends. We have a very threatened community here in the capital, we have fought a long fight, we have people coming along who have no idea about our history and I'm very concerned. Clare, if you are reading this you need to do your research love. Reading bits off the CRT website and getting the wrong end of the stick makes you look like a prat. And speaking 'on our behalf' when you don't really know us is not on.

 

[treelover]

any links?

 

[DaveCinzano]

Uh-oh...

 

[DotCommunist]

Uh-oh...

are they making a stag film?

 

[J Ed]

John Rees' social media presence is just weird. He is blasting the Greens for being 'silent' on Charlie Hebdo's 'racism'.

 

[butchersapron]

John Rees' social media presence is just weird. He is blasting the Greens for being 'silent' on Charlie Hebdo's 'racism'.

All the swp/ex-swp milieu are locked into a fight to see how can be most anti-ch in order to appear as the best defender of muslims and so grab some new recruits.

 

[killer b]

Literally the first thing I heard about the CH massacre was a trot moaning about the racist French left on FB, and how they could all learn something from Salma Yaqoob...

 

[J Ed]

All the swp/ex-swp milieu are locked into a fight to see how can be most anti-ch in order to appear as the best defender of muslims and so grab some new recruits.

A great strategy, they will soon be inundated with 999999999 new Muslim recruits

 

[butchersapron]

A great strategy, they will soon be inundated with 999999999 new Muslim recruits

This

always works though - remember the new opening that RESPECT brought, 'the dawn of a new era'.

 

[frogwoman]

A daesh for growth

 

[J Ed]

Isis to see you

 

[frogwoman]

This obsession with how awful CH are by some of the intersectionalist crowd is starting to piss me off tbh. People died because of a cartoon and they are trying to smear them as white supremacists. It makes me fucking angry.