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Starry Wisdom
i saw them not so long ago in dalston
Gerry Healy
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Starry Wisdom
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Reached well over 1000 at their peak, if not quite the 10,0000+ they claimed. Maybe 4K. They did okay in the immediate aftermath of Hungary, thanks to holding the (then only proper) Fourth International franchise.
John 'Big Issue' bird was another member. There are a couple of sane exes out there (Dot Doodah from pensioners action for example) tho most seem to be quietly forgetting they were ever members, or are in the truly minuscule groupuscules like the vile Socialist Equality Party.
charlie mowbray
The Enforcer
As equally horrendous as Healy's rape of young women members were the WRP leadership's involvement with Libyan and Iraqi intelligence. See here: Revolution betrayed - the Workers Revolutionary Party and Iraq
So basically Iraqi communists were shopped to the Saddam regime by Healy, to die agonising deaths under torture!!!!
"One example of the depths to which these corrupt practices drove the party occurred in March 1979, when with only one dissentient the central committee of the WRP voted to approve the execution (after prolonged torture) of more than 20 opponents of the Iraqi government. One of the victims, Talib Suwailh, had only five months earlier brought fraternal greetings to the conference of the WRP's own front organisation, the All Trade Union Alliance (see the Slaughter group's News Line, 20 November 1985)." Thus Healy, Alex Mitchell, Corin and Vanessa Redgrave etc were complicit in torture and murder and betrayal
So basically Iraqi communists were shopped to the Saddam regime by Healy, to die agonising deaths under torture!!!!
"One example of the depths to which these corrupt practices drove the party occurred in March 1979, when with only one dissentient the central committee of the WRP voted to approve the execution (after prolonged torture) of more than 20 opponents of the Iraqi government. One of the victims, Talib Suwailh, had only five months earlier brought fraternal greetings to the conference of the WRP's own front organisation, the All Trade Union Alliance (see the Slaughter group's News Line, 20 November 1985)." Thus Healy, Alex Mitchell, Corin and Vanessa Redgrave etc were complicit in torture and murder and betrayal
charlie mowbray
The Enforcer
Frances De la Tour of Rising Damp was a member too, as was her erstwhile husband the playwright Tom Kempinski.
charlie mowbray
The Enforcer
Healy raped at least 26 young women members and probably a damn sight more. And was there a peep from other members up until the the actual faction fight that led to his expulsion? He also is alleged to have siphoned off a lot of the wealth from Libya and Iraq into his personal bank accounts in the Irish Republic. And to think that Livingslime wrote that intro to his hagiography and attended his funeral. It makes me sick to my stomach.
That would be the left wing John Bird who now says the welfare state is not working and benefits should be stopped.
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
I saw them a couple of weeks ago in Southall. There's only two of them and they usually appear at demonstrations in Ealing.
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
Is that Tony Allen, the so-called 'Godfather of Alternative Comedy' and self-styled anarchist?
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Starry Wisdom
Soi-disant sil-te-plait
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Or the afrobeat dude?
I'm clearly out of touch... Vile how? Link to gory detail?
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
I'd have a hard time believing it's the comedian/shaman. He's so adamantly against political parties and is often complaining about the 'Left'.
But Keith Allen a former member of the WRP? It doesn't seem possible but he was apparently "influenced" by them. Odd, given that he's previously expressed "grudging admiration" for the Pig Fucker and Fizzy Willy.
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imposs1904
Thread Killa'
Tony Allen? The anarchist bloke?
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
My Dad once bought a copy of Newline. They must have caught him coming out of the pub after a day long session.
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Tbf I wouldn't underestimate the amount of support on the left they had for a time in the 70s and 80s. They weren't as visible as say the SWP but I lost count of the number of shop stewards that were Newsline supporters that I would bump into . Very insular not into anything else that the WRP.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Sounds like a line from a forgotten verse of some cockernee knees-up
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
I guess you need to know my Dad to realise how strange it is that he would buy copy of Newsline. We were a Sun/Daily Star household growing up.
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
That's what I asked. Keep up.
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
S'il te plaît. It's the circonflexe over the 'i'.
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Starry Wisdom
British pedantry for British pedantsS'il te plaît. It's the circonflexe over the 'i'.
Ealing comedy.
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