Galloway's Workers' Party of Britain

[Puddy_Tat]

They have a candidate for the Lewisham mayor election (caused by damian egan quitting to stand in the kingswood by-election)

John Hamilton for Mayor – Workers Party – People Before Profit

johnhamilton.org.uk

hmm at

To join the Workers Party just go to the website and sign up – minimum £5 per month subscription as we don’t have financial backing from Zionist millionaires like the Labour and Conservative parties!

(from this page)

he has been involved in the past with lewisham 'people before profit' who seem to have gone in with WPB for the mayoral election at least. They do have a certain amount of form in this direction...

 

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I see Galloway scored an own goal today ( for Ipswich).

 

[PTK]

Probably not the most important aspect of the Rochdale election, but the Brars must be absolutely fucking fuming this week. Imagine setting this shit party up, spending a couple of years putting effort into it, and then splitting or being expelled or whatever happened shortly before the WPB gets an MP. Say what you like about the SWP, but at least they managed to stick around long enough to reap the benefits of being in an incoherent electoral coalition with George Galloway MP, whatever they are.

When the CPGB ML was in the WPB, there was this rather interesting image hanging on the wall behind one of the people speaking in its video. Joe someone-or-other.

 

[The39thStep]

They have a candidate for the Lewisham mayor election (caused by damian egan quitting to stand in the kingswood by-election)

John Hamilton for Mayor – Workers Party – People Before Profit

johnhamilton.org.uk

hmm at



(from this page)

he has been involved in the past with lewisham 'people before profit' who seem to have gone in with WPB for the mayoral election at least. They do have a certain amount of form in this direction...

Not sure that those tectonic plates that Galloway spoke about will be shifting in Lewisham after watching this rallying cry from the hustings.

 

[DaveCinzano]

When the CPGB ML was in the WPB, there was this rather interesting image hanging on the wall behind one of the people spealing in its video. Joe someone-or-other.

Not that much of a surprise seeing as they ran the Stalin Society since way back when, at least the SLP days

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Not sure that those tectonic plates that Galloway spoke about will be shifting in Lewisham after watching this rallying cry from the hustings.

 

[RD2003]

When I first left school in 1979 I briefly had a job in Oldham, and I remember getting off the bus and being intrigued to see posters for the 'Stalin Youth Brigade' pasted up on various walls as I walked to the workplace with that soon to be familiar sinking feeling. Would that have been the CPGB-ML?

'That'll inspire us kids,' I remember thinking, although I did suspect it was more directed at the big local Asian population.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

apparently mr galloway will be in downtown catford on tuesday

 

[Puddy_Tat]

i'm not entirely sure this is a good campaigning look either



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[The39thStep]

When I first left school in 1979 I briefly had a job in Oldham, and I remember getting off the bus and being intrigued to see posters for the 'Stalin Youth Brigade' pasted up on various walls as I walked to the workplace with that soon to be familiar sinking feeling. Would that have been the CPGB-ML?

'That'll inspire us kids,' I remember thinking, although I did suspect it was more directed at the big local Asian population.

Dunno but we should relaunch it as a full Battalion so that Paul Mason can write a seven point plan on how to tackle it.

 

[RD2003]

I do remember the CPGB-ML (or at least I think it was them) tearing up leaflets I was helping to hand out for the Polish Solidarity Campaign, when most of we Trots somewhat naively believed that Solidarnosc was an authentic workers' movement (it was imo, but, as I suspected at the time, also willingly playing into the hands of then CIA and other western intelligence agencies.)

 

[PTK]

I do remember the CPGB-ML (or at least I think it was them) tearing up leaflets I was helping to hand out for the Polish Solidarity Campaign, when most of we Trots somewhat naively believed that Solidarnosc was an authentic workers' movement (it was imo, but, as I suspected at the time, also willingly playing into the hands of then CIA and other western intelligence agencies.)

The CPGB ML did not exist then. It was formed after Brar's group, the name of which escaped me, but it may have been named after its magazine, which I think was called Lalkar, left the Socialist Labour Party about 20 years ago.

 

[PTK]

Not sure that those tectonic plates that Galloway spoke about will be shifting in Lewisham after watching this rallying cry from the hustings.

That is a good rallying cry at an election meeting: "there's no point in voting".

 

[PTK]

i'm not entirely sure this is a good campaigning look either

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Oh my days! This man is old enough to know better than that. Has no-one told him that the star (or shield) of David represents the Jewish religion?

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Has no-one told him that the star (or shield) of David represents the Jewish religion?

or more concerning, maybe he already knows...

 

[RD2003]

The CPGB ML did not exist then. It was formed after Brar's group, the name of which escaped me, but it may have been named after its magazine, which I think was called Lalkar, left the Socialist Labour Party about 20 years ago.

I do remember buying papers on demonstrations, around that time, that carried the name of some party with Marxist-Leninist in brackets after the party name. I used to buy everybody's paper when still in my late teens. In photographs of their activists on demos etc they used to blur the faces, as if every individual was facing imminent arrest for the threat they posed to the existing order.

 

[RD2003]

I had a paper where they made a big deal of the death of this guy. Iirc it was supposed to have been a state assassination. Song for the British Working Class

The song was a massive inspiration for working class people at the time. Nobody I knew could stop talking about it, or singing the verses even.

 

[PTK]

I do remember buying papers on demonstrations, around that time, that carried the name of some party with Marxist-Leninist in brackets after the party name. I used to buy everybody's paper when still in my late teens. In photographs of their activists on demos etc they used to blur the faces, as if every individual was facing imminent arrest for the threat they posed to the existing order.

It may have been the Communist Federation of Britain (Marxist-Leninist), which became the Revolutionary Communist League of Britain. The RCLB did blur faces on photos in its paper, “Class Struggle”. It was a relatively sensible group, and dissolved itself in the late 1990s (I think).

A mush sillier group was the Communist Party of England (Marxist-Leninist), which was the local section of a movement created by a person in Canada called Hardial Bains, and is now the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist).

I doubt it was the much more sober group, led by the late leading figure in the Engineering union, Reg Birch, which published “The Worker” (now called “Workers”), the Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist).

Do I qualify for my leftist trainspotter badge?

If you have been distressed by the mention of any of the groups in the above post, please phone our helpline.

 

[PTK]

I had a paper where they made a big deal of the death of this guy. Iirc it was supposed to have been a state assassination. Song for the British Working Class

The song was a massive inspiration for working class people at the time. Nobody I knew could stop talking about it, or singing the verses even.

Ah! That is definitely the CP of England ML, now the RCPB ML.

 

[PTK]

Workers England Daily News Release was the original title of the CPE ML paper, if I remember correctly. I have the song you mentioned playing now. I do remember hearing a bit of it once. I believe a conspiracy of music lovers assassinated the composer.

 

[RD2003]

Workers England Daily News Release was the original title of the CPE ML paper, if I remember correctly. I have the song you mentioned playing now. I do remember hearing a bit of it once. I believe a conspiracy of music lovers assassinated the composer.

Musically it reminds me a little of something Peter Hammill might have come up with.

 

[PTK]

Musically it reminds me a little of something Peter Hamill might have come up with.

I am ignorant of Peter Hamill. I just looked him up, and given my age, I ought not to be.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Always a charmer.

 

[Cerv]

i'm not entirely sure this is a good campaigning look either

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the road safety improvements that every cyclist is crying out for - upping the speed limit for motor vehicles and removing traffic calming measures like speed bumps.

fucking cretin

 

[hitmouse]

the road safety improvements that every cyclist is crying out for - upping the speed limit for motor vehicles and removing traffic calming measures like speed bumps.

fucking cretin

Tackling pollution by making it easier to drive everywhere, what could possibly go wrong?

 

[PTK]

Tackling pollution by making it easier to drive everywhere, what could possibly go wrong?

It is odd that he has that in his programme. The other points all make sense.

 

[The39thStep]

It may have been the Communist Federation of Britain (Marxist-Leninist), which became the Revolutionary Communist League of Britain. The RCLB did blur faces on photos in its paper, “Class Struggle”. It was a relatively sensible group, and dissolved itself in the late 1990s (I think).

A mush sillier group was the Communist Party of England (Marxist-Leninist), which was the local section of a movement created by a person in Canada called Hardial Bains, and is now the Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist).

I doubt it was the much more sober group, led by the late leading figure in the Engineering union, Reg Birch, which published “The Worker” (now called “Workers”), the Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist).

Do I qualify for my leftist trainspotter badge?

If you have been distressed by the mention of any of the groups in the above post, please phone our helpline.

Reg Birch supported the ANL as I remember

 

[Puddy_Tat]

It is odd that he has that in his programme. The other points all make sense.

a lot of their policies do make reasonable sense - and they have been fairly active on the housing front and trying to stop lewisham council selling off public housing to developers.

and while i've not ridden anything 2 wheeled since for getting on for 40 years, i can see the argument that some forms of speed humps aren't cyclist friendly (some of them certainly aren't bus friendly) and i'm not sure i want to get in to the LTN argument here.

but at certain aspects...

 

[PTK]

Reg Birch supported the ANL as I remember

Did Reg Birch have an ANL fixation? (I'll get me coat).

 

[PTK]

Did Reg Birch have an ANL fixation? (I'll get me coat).

The CPB ML certainly did not support the ANL. I just double-checked. I suppose may have put his name to the ANL, is his role as a union official.