RCP/Spiked/IoI

[DaveCinzano]

Broadly accurate piece from today, but nothing new:

Why Boris Johnson's Tories fell for a tiny sect of libertarian provocateurs | Andy Beckett

The combative contrarian rhetoric of the defunct RCP has long been all over the media. Now it’s in No 10 as well, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

www.theguardian.com

 

[eoin_k]

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I prefer the one by Paul Gilroy et al for Birmingham CCCS.

 

[Wilf]

Fox hunts Ermine.

(must try harder )

 

[tim]

Fox hunts Ermine.

(must try harder )

But at least she supports the people on thee streets in Minsk



Three decades ago she would have been backing the dictators and his enforcers

Poison in the well of history

 

[Dom Traynor]

First Clare Fox now Frank Furedi sure the resurgent SDP (long since taken over by a UKIP splinter aren't an appealing target for and RCP intervention?

Also interesting to see the pivot towards borders from the former sponsors of the let them all in movement

 

[DaveCinzano]

One of Fox's earliest political projects:

 

[tim]

Hilarious. I've hardly encountered a political grouping more inclined to collective hysteria and 'wide-eyed fervour' than the RCP.

Like calling things cults? Join our cult of calling things cults!

Claire Fox accused me of sexism last night on Twitter because I said she was a member of a Furedi led cult. She also said that Furedi was a great thinker and recommend his books. I then got told off by Heartfield who assured the world that Claire would use the platform to argue for what is "right".

 

[belboid]

One of Fox's earliest political projects:

Not that early, she joined the scabs in the late seventies

 

[Micky D]

The case for Trump

Daniel McCarthy on what is really at stake in the US election.

www.spiked-online.com

Brendans scraped a new low

 

[The39thStep]

One of the issues I have with Spiked is that whilst often they raise a point that may have a grain of truth to it , or at least a suggestion of one, its submerged into a swamp of bile. Normally written by someone who contributes nothing to any practical alternative activity and never offering a way forward. In their world the term working class is something to be uttered in faux outrage but never engaged or given any agency .

The Lockdown Left: socialists against society

The Tories have crushed living standards, health and liberty, and the left has supported them all the way.

www.spiked-online.com

 

[killer b]

One of the issues I have with Spiked is that whilst often they raise a point that may have a grain of truth to it , or at least a suggestion of one, its submerged into a swamp of bile. Normally written by someone who contributes nothing to any practical alternative activity and never offering a way forward. In their world the term working class is something to be uttered in faux outrage but never engaged or given any agency .

The Lockdown Left: socialists against society

The Tories have crushed living standards, health and liberty, and the left has supported them all the way.

www.spiked-online.com

It's because their arguments aren't in good faith.

 

[billy_bob]

Bit of fun... Claire Fox attacks Brexit Bill opponents then accidentally votes against it

Claire Fox attacks opponents of Brexit bill - before accidentally voting against it

 

[DaveCinzano]

Bit of fun... Claire Fox attacks Brexit Bill opponents then accidentally votes against it

Claire Fox attacks opponents of Brexit bill - before accidentally voting against it

Par for the course.

 

[belboid]

Par for the course.

Says one thing, does the other, yup, classic Claire.

 

[DaveCinzano]

One day I'll dig out my RCP, ELWAR, CAM and IFM notebooks

 

[billy_bob]

It's possible it wasn't an accident - if someone said to her, after she'd spoken in support of it, 'It's good that you're voting for it' she would immediately have to vote against it.

 

[hitmouse]

For the dedicated Spiked-watcher, someone's just found an internal bulletin from 1995, just before the RCP was finally wound up.

 

[Micky D]

Talk about trolling ffs

 

[belboid]

decent bit about the 'midnight in the century' period

Towards ‘Midnight in the century’: the RCP in 1989-90

Back in 2017, the Spiked website treated us to a retrospective on former Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) leader Frank Furedi’s ‘radical life’. This offered a refreshingly innovative take on his…

communistpartyofgreatbritainhistory.wordpress.com

It's conclusion:
‘Midnight in the century’ was thus an attempt by the RCP to step back from its self-inflicted idiocy and to preserve the sect leadership of Furedi, responsible for dreaming up a silly utopia of the ‘revolutionary nineties’. Never before was the call for ‘Enlightenment’ prefaced by such silly trifles.

 

[tufty79]

One of Fox's earliest political projects:

I was briefly in the Bradford group, hosted at my friend's dad's house....
I'd completely forgotten about that.
I never forgot Adam though
He was my first ginger crush.


I went trumpeting round Leeds on a demo with them all

 

[DaveCinzano]

I was briefly in the Bradford group, hosted at my friend's dad's house....
I'd completely forgotten about that.
I never forgot Adam though
He was my first ginger crush.


I went trumpeting round Leeds on a demo with them all

Remember Erik? Rocking the Columbine trenchcoat look

 

[tufty79]

Remember Erik? Rocking the Columbine trenchcoat look

I can't even.....


Could I gently DM you about all the updated and sorted weirdness vortex that you and me seem to be swirling down, please DaveCinzano ?

 

[tufty79]

I just got so overwhelmed by synchrinistic everything including you, that I've accidentally kicked myself out the meeting and lost the reentry link

Fgs

 

[tim]

Here is Claire Fox to remind you of how awful being stuck in a pub with a drunk nostalgic can be.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Bemused this week by this pre-RCP campaign to erect a monument to the H-block hunger strikers outside Hackney Town Hall:

Monument plan for H Block prisoners in Hackney (1981)

A TV news item on the culture war about a statue – from November 1981. The clip reports on the scandal around a campaign for the construction of a monument to ten dead Irish Republican hunger…

hackneyhistory.wordpress.com

 

[nogojones]

Here is Claire Fox to remind you of how awful being stuck in a pub with a drunk nostalgic can be.

Fucking hell. I don't think I've seen her talk before. Only ever heard her on R4 (for like 30 seconds or so before I start shouting "fuck off!" and turn the radio off). Does she normally look that scary?

 

[Sue]

Bemused this week by this pre-RCP campaign to erect a monument to the H-block hunger strikers outside Hackney Town Hall:

Monument plan for H Block prisoners in Hackney (1981)

A TV news item on the culture war about a statue – from November 1981. The clip reports on the scandal around a campaign for the construction of a monument to ten dead Irish Republican hunger…

hackneyhistory.wordpress.com

That's very random. Next to the war memorial perhaps...?

 

[Wilf]

Fucking hell. I don't think I've seen her talk before. Only ever heard her on R4 (for like 30 seconds or so before I start shouting "fuck off!" and turn the radio off). Does she normally look that scary?

Strangely enough, I also have a 30 second watershed when it comes to listening to her:

Claire Fox passess the Turing Test for a few sentences. When I saw her for the first time on some programme or other she didn't seem to have a swivel eyed appearance and her speech had a reasonably normal cadence. Then thirty seconds in, you think 'I must have heard that wrong', another few sentences and you are still thinking you might be misunderstanding her. Then the awful truth dawns - she's the full trumpet.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Bemused this week by this pre-RCP campaign to erect a monument to the H-block hunger strikers outside Hackney Town Hall:

Monument plan for H Block prisoners in Hackney (1981)

A TV news item on the culture war about a statue – from November 1981. The clip reports on the scandal around a campaign for the construction of a monument to ten dead Irish Republican hunger…

hackneyhistory.wordpress.com

Also this:

 

[billy_bob]

Fucking hell. I don't think I've seen her talk before. Only ever heard her on R4 (for like 30 seconds or so before I start shouting "fuck off!" and turn the radio off). Does she normally look that scary?

'A place where you can natter ... you can actually sit round and put the world to rights with mates'.

Distinct impression here that she's repeating something she's learned by rote as the sort of thing people would say in this situation.

Uncanny valley