RCP/Spiked/IoI

[DaveCinzano]

A tonne of scans of Living Marxism magazine have been added to the Splits and Fusions archive FWIW

Living Marxism- the mag they could not gag!

February and March proved to be very busy months. In addition to several visits to various archives, I also did two very large scanning jobs and a few smaller ones, which I will discuss soon. Fortu…

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There was a copy of this cover on the wall in my school classroom

 

[Fozzie Bear]

There was a copy of this cover on the wall in my school classroom

Weird school?

 

[DaveCinzano]

Weird school?

In many ways

 

[belboid]

In many ways

 

[imposs1904]

There was a copy of this cover on the wall in my school classroom

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Did your teacher sport a fashionable hair cut and wear expensive black jeans? Were they known to haunt the high street on a Saturday morning with a clipboard in hand? In short, were they a cunt?

 

[AmateurAgitator]

I'm not going to get into it but her book has some dodgey stuff against migrants who moved onto the estate she talks about, being less deserving than the generation of earlier Caribbean migrants she aligns with.
Dont have a copy anymore but it's towards the end.

If you're saying she's racist or xenophobic then I disagree, especially as she constantly shares articles by Aditya Chakrabortty. Her son is also mixed race. And neither do you actually provide any evidence to back up your claim.

 

[rekil]

Her take on that Jan 6th hullabaloo has not aged well. Thank fuck RT is blocked so I don't have to see it ever again.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Did your teacher sport a fashionable hair cut and wear expensive black jeans? Were they known to haunt the high street on a Saturday morning with a clipboard in hand? In short, were they a cunt?

Reader, Dr C did not append the poster to the wall

 

[AmateurAgitator]

It's what she writes rather than who she writes for thats more important imo. Don't always agree with her politics but she's certainly not gone or going Tory

Yep, I absolutely agree.

 

[AmateurAgitator]

Can't say I like Spiked but to be fair to Lisa McKenzie I'd say this is a pretty good article

The great academic circle-jerk

What that research project on masturbation tells us about the state of academia.

www.spiked-online.com

 

[Rob Ray]

The segue into complaining about idpol being to blame is about the most LM thing possible. As though weird PhDs haven't been standard fare for the papers for decades.

 

[Benjamin F]

Can't say I like Spiked but to be fair to Lisa McKenzie I'd say this is a pretty good article

The great academic circle-jerk

What that research project on masturbation tells us about the state of academia.

www.spiked-online.com

Not much to disagree with - or terribly original in Lisa M's article. The use of 'free', self-alienating academic labour to support mega-rich publishing and maintain exclusive, demagaing hierarchies is hardly a new insight. And the masturbation article - though hardly representative of the majority of academic research - is not the only self-indulgent published article (and no more self-indulgent that a lot of IoI/Spiked articles). Nor is the call to engage with the 'wider world' new or radical. The impact agenda in Universities is precisely that - and can be even more damaging that academic insularity. As impact is often - and easily evidenced - but showing how the research helps government policy makers or business.

Whilst it is possible to make 'impact' through engagement with other groups, it is usually less highly regarded and obviously far harder to evidence. After all some groups work best by operating under the radar, rather than naming themselves through academic-reporting. So Lisa M's suggestion can be used to support the idea, already in operation within government and University management, that the only research that matters is that which helps capital and/or the state.

 

[billy_bob]

Spiked really going for it.

 

[tim]

Sadly, I'm blocked so unable to read the wisdom of St Frank the Revolutionary.

 

[danny la rouge]

Spiked really going for it.

As is their wont.

 

[DaveCinzano]

I would be fascinated (not actually fascinated) to hear Claire Fox's take on it given her double-repubble background.

ETA

Claire Regina

 

[billy_bob]

Sadly, I'm blocked so unable to read the wisdom of St Frank the Revolutionary.

You'll be able to keep your dinner down longer than me, then.

 

[8ball]

Been hopping between threads and it took me a while to twig that you weren’t talking about SpookyFrank.

 

[AmateurAgitator]

So out of sheer curiosity I had a look at the Spiked website today, and according to them 'woke racism' is a thing

 

[killer b]

Look at the cursed lineup for the Battle of Ideas festival this year. Jesus.

 

[Raheem]

Look at the cursed lineup for the Battle of Ideas festival this year. Jesus.

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If it's a battle, I presume the normal Geneva convention rules will apply.

 

[Serge Forward]

Horrendous. Has Nina Power gone wonky these days? Or am I mixing her up with someone else?

 

[killer b]

oh yeah. real bad.

 

[8ball]

Look at the cursed lineup for the Battle of Ideas festival this year. Jesus.

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Jesus? I assume he’s one of the “many more” but I’d have expected a higher billing.

 

[danny la rouge]

It’s a unique game of avoid, avoid or avoid.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Look at the cursed lineup for the Battle of Ideas festival this year. Jesus.

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"Plus a special video message from Alex Belfield, a fundraising auction hosted by celebrity gavel-basher Katie Hopkins, the amusing cabaret stylings of former Scots comedian of the year Leo Kearse, and closing disco by Special Guest DJ that fella from Mumford & Sons (prompt 10:30 finish)"

 

[billy_bob]

Look at the cursed lineup for the Battle of Ideas festival this year. Jesus.

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Fucking hell - just rename it the Battle against Trans Perverts and have done with it

Just imagine if they're listed in order of appearance: Helen Joyce, Frank Furedi and Julie Bindel one after the other

 

[danny la rouge]

I can imagine the meeting.

Do you think everyone will get the message now?
No, a lot of these are hardly household names. We need to go obvious.
Linehan?
Bingo!

 

[marty21]

Look at the cursed lineup for the Battle of Ideas festival this year. Jesus.

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there's many more!

 

[DaveCinzano]

there's many more!

THOUSANDS OF 'EM