The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
What on earth are you talking about ?
Galloway's Workers' Party of Britain
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If the working class have gone, who on earth are doing the work nowadays?
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Dunno but who ever is doing it they aren't rugged , white or straight apparently. Probably down to outsourcing or some EU legislation that we haven't got rid of.
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
The new alliance between the downwardly mobile middle class and the precariat. How have you missed it?
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Don't forget. If you have a job you can't be working class!So we've learned that the rugged straight working class is gone, but anyone who has a pension and goes on foreign jaunts is also out, the pool of potential recruits for the affinity group is starting to look smaller and smaller.
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
That’s a weird version of what the working class is. It’s like the Daily Mail definition.
One of those anarchist organisations you dislike had this to say:
The media keep using the phrase "white working class". Do you think the working class is white?
Well, the working class is most of us. So that means it's black people, white people, Asians, trans people, cis people, gay, straight, men, women, people with disabilities. People you see all around you. People who need to work to live. And we all have that in common. The same relationship to ownership.
But isn't the working class reactionary?
That's the story we're told to hold us back. But if you're afraid of the working class, you're afraid of yourself, to mangle a Fred Hampton quote. A friend of mine said something the other day, we were talking about this, and it made me laugh: "they can come and call me homophobic if they want. I'm queer as fuck. They can fuck right off". That's what people forget. Who is the working class? It's us.
It's Uber delivery riders, shop workers, care workers, bar tenders, cleaners, flight attendants, call centre workers. That's what makes us working class. But we're also gay, straight, trans, cis, black, white and all those other things too.
Getting to know the ACN: part 1.
In this new occasional series, we’ll be speaking to comrades about what being in the ACN means to them. In this first interview, we speak to Steve in Glasgow. Steve, we describe ourselves as …
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andysays
Love and solidarity
Galloway claims to have found at least 15,000 proper working class people in Ashton under Lyme
George Galloway vows his party will take Angela Rayner's seat
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
lol. They’ll take Ashton under Lyme my arse.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
No frequent foreign holiday jaunts for them
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
I like his idea of Corbyn joining him as Leader. In fact all socialists should band together to form a new party. It would be good for democracy to have such a clear choice.
PTK
Paul Kegan
I am a White heterosexual cis man, but rugged I am not. Ohh, I wish I were rugged. ‘twould be lovely to be rugged. Ruggedness is a quality that I wished I possessed.
Gone is the old working class, with their two tea breaks a day, hour-long lunch breaks, double time for working on bank holidays, and now we have the modern classless utopia in which workers piss in bottles and die at work.
Gone is the old working class, with their two tea breaks a day, hour-long lunch breaks, double time for working on bank holidays, and now we have the modern classless utopia in which workers piss in bottles and die at work.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
As I've said I think he'll be in patriotic alternative or another group of fascist losers within the next five yearsThat’s a weird version of what the working class is. It’s like the Daily Mail definition.
One of those anarchist organisations you dislike had this to say:
The media keep using the phrase "white working class". Do you think the working class is white?
Well, the working class is most of us. So that means it's black people, white people, Asians, trans people, cis people, gay, straight, men, women, people with disabilities. People you see all around you. People who need to work to live. And we all have that in common. The same relationship to ownership.
But isn't the working class reactionary?
That's the story we're told to hold us back. But if you're afraid of the working class, you're afraid of yourself, to mangle a Fred Hampton quote. A friend of mine said something the other day, we were talking about this, and it made me laugh: "they can come and call me homophobic if they want. I'm queer as fuck. They can fuck right off". That's what people forget. Who is the working class? It's us.
It's Uber delivery riders, shop workers, care workers, bar tenders, cleaners, flight attendants, call centre workers. That's what makes us working class. But we're also gay, straight, trans, cis, black, white and all those other things too.
Getting to know the ACN: part 1.
In this new occasional series, we’ll be speaking to comrades about what being in the ACN means to them. In this first interview, we speak to Steve in Glasgow. Steve, we describe ourselves as …
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
It's as tho there wasn't a socialist party
petee
no gods, no malarkey
i read this book, any comments welcome. A380 PTK
www.versobooks.com
The Lost World of British Communism is a vivid account of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Raphael Samuel, one of post-war Britain’s most notable historians, draws on novels of the period and childhood recollections of London’s East End, as well as memoirs and Party archives, to evoke the world of British Communism in the 1940s. Samuel conjures up the era when the movement was at the height of its political and theoretical power, brilliantly bringing to life an age in which the Communist Party enjoyed huge prestige as a bulwark for the struggles against fascism and colonialism.
The Lost World of British Communism
The Lost World of British Communism is a vivid account of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Raphael Samuel, one of post-war Britain’s most notable historians, draws on novels of the period and childhood recollections of London’s East End, as well as memoirs and Party archives, to evoke the...
www.versobooks.com
The Lost World of British Communism is a vivid account of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Raphael Samuel, one of post-war Britain’s most notable historians, draws on novels of the period and childhood recollections of London’s East End, as well as memoirs and Party archives, to evoke the world of British Communism in the 1940s. Samuel conjures up the era when the movement was at the height of its political and theoretical power, brilliantly bringing to life an age in which the Communist Party enjoyed huge prestige as a bulwark for the struggles against fascism and colonialism.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Hang on, so nowadays the former have their tea in Wetherspoons and get served by the latter?
Really tricky all this theory stuff.
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
Ashton-under-Lyne
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
I got the spelling from andysays . I’m not familiar with the place.Ashton-under-Lyne
RD2003
Got a really fucking shitty attitude
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
Just down the road from Stalyvegas, where they have a very nice pub on the railway platform.
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
You’re making these up now!
comrade spurski
Well-Known Member
The man is a complete filth ... no idea how anyone can now think he's a socialist or even left wing.
From taking a job on Talksport to congratulating Liverpool winning the Champions League against Spurs in 2019 with the words "congratulations in keeping the Israeli flag off the trophy" the man has continued his journey from being a self centred cock who was a decent anti war MP to being a self centred cocktail with right wing views.
andysays
Love and solidarity
Ashton-under-Lyne
Apologies, it was originally my error.
I guess that means I'm out of the affinity group
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
There used to be a few Galloway fans on here. And not just SWP drones who were told to love him via Respect.
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
Sorry for throwing you under the bus, but there was one coming and I just felt like it.Apologies, it was originally my error.
I guess that means I'm out of the affinity group
comrade spurski
Well-Known Member
I was in the SWP when Respect was happening ... was already getting distant from them... only stayed from 2001 onwards to be involved in the anti war and anti racist campaigns.... was bizarre to watch. They defended him at every turn , even that big brother bollocks but then effectively had a lovers tiff and slagged him off and stood against him for London Mayor.
When criticised they simply pretended they were right all along.
Thankfully I was long gone by time that Delta filth occurred but the beginning of the SWP disintegration was the Galloway stuff...the Delta filth was the final straw
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