Found this fascinatingly irrelevant blog based around this studenty bloke living in a flat with members of the RCP. Its a minor work of art, wish i had written it.
http://universitypseud.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=rcp
Imagine how bad they'd be if she wasn't there though.Good grief, she works in the Centre For Social Justice and helped produce reports for Duncan Smith
What does she do now, is she part of Spiked?
'From the early 1990s she pursued a career in housing and in the last few years has moved increasingly close to the Conservatives '
http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/Kate_Davies
ah....
When I was a student in Manchester in the mid-1980s I became a member of the RCP and Kate Marshall, as she was then, was a very prominent member of the party and wrote several books for them. At that time her partner was Mick Hulme who went on to be editor of Living Marxism and Spiked-online. Oddly, in 1992 I bumped into Kate as I was doing a post grad course at the University of Westminster (formerly Polytechnic of Central London) and she was on a (separate) course as well. She did say helo to me but I go the distinct impression she didn't really want to chat to me. Whilst most of the more prominent members (Mick Hulme, Frank Furedi, Fiona Fox) of the long defunct RCP continue to develop their brand of libertarian marxism, Kate seems to have completely jumped ship and decided to make lots of money and become friendly with rather unpleasant tories.
Though I think what you actually mean idris is that she's moved to the left.
Not the one I tied to fuck,
Perfectly fitting name:I think this lot are connected to those who were formally 'preparing for power'
http://www.manifestoclub.com/
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Josie Appleton is convenor of the Manifesto Club, a British civil liberties group that campaigns against vetting, booze bans, photo bans, and other forms of state regulation of everyday life. She is a contributor to the Guardian and Spiked.
A friend of mine is ex-RCP - but she's also sane, sensible, now thinks that her erstwhile comrades were a cult, and remains on the left.
Looks like she's the only one of whom that could be said, though.
Paul F? It always surprises me he was one of theirs, as he is remarkably saneThere's a sound bloke on the Revolutionary History editorial committee who was a former supporter of the RCP. I remember him mentioning one time that when he joined them as a supporter in the late 70s, he was the first supporter/member without a University education. He's since got a PhD.
Oxbridge but i deserve to be face. I used to listen to the jam.