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Reports that SWP bookshop Bookmarks attacked

Re:Flett's "not punch ups down alley ways" comment

This is the usual SWP dig at Squadism. It is pointless as the SWP could now not recruit the types who could and would form effective squads anyway. It is more just knee jerk sectarianism and fighting the tactical battles of the past (the SWP talk off the past A LOT !) .

It is ironic in a way as the early SWP did tacticly approve of Squads and were happy to receive their protection against a very violent far right. It was only in the early 1980s when they wanted to drop anti fascism altogether and wind up the ANL did they start expelling mainly working class activists for it as they were afraid of factions forming (an anathema to them as it threatens their internal "democratic centralism")
I know I was there at the time . They didn't tactically approve , Hollborough and Deason initially supported them .
 
Was he the annoying gobby twat doing the voice over? The one who seemed surprised that left wing books were in a left wing bookshop?
That's Buska who likes to carry pepper sprays . Another gobshite who thinks he's a bit of a lad despite his mental health issues.
 
I wonder if it's as straightforward as the SWP owning the shop. I'm imagining a right thicket of limited companies and ownership trusts.
......who would all be SWP full timers. I wouldn't be surprised if Delta's name is still a director among the myriad of SWP companies. Rank and File SWP members are strongly encouraged to not worry themselves with this aspect of their Party.
 
......who would all be SWP full timers. I wouldn't be surprised if Delta's name is still a director among the myriad of SWP companies. Rank and File SWP members are strongly encouraged to not worry themselves with this aspect of their Party.
Nobody. Fucking. Cares.
 
Couldn't see much of the 'invasion' video as it buffered to fuck on my Ma's shitty laptop. However I didn't see any masks * (mentioned on p1 of thread). Very unpleasant for the people in the shop and certainly something everyone should, literally, fight back against. However it didn't look too brutal as an actual tactic i.e. fash and alt-right weirdos should be combatted for who/what they are, their attempt to take over public space and the rest - not in this case because there was any brutality (again, apols if I missed anything in the vid).

As an actual tactic, not that different to the sort of thing Mayday protesters might do in some corporate HQ circa 2002 (though with the difference that the corporate lot would be backed up by the state during and after the event). Again, not minimising what happened, it's just we are getting a clearer picture now.

* Other than trump mask wearing weirdo. Anyway, I read the reference to masks on p1 as some kind of balaclava type thing. Clearly not, these fucking idiots almost wear name badges. :facepalm:
 
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First thing first. The person holding the camera/phone needs his batteries removing. 'Look at this one, look at this one...you Jew hater! OMG! You Jew hater' :facepalm:

he needs more than that - are there any clues out there as to who it is / from what org etc yet ?
 
Shop owner's right as well, tearing up the placard is technically criminal damage if the owners decide to press charges.

Edit: Seriously though what kind of utter moron films themselves doing an intimidatory shop invasion and then puts it up online? Genuinely mind boggling.
Perhaps pass the facebook footage along to their respective employers...
 
It's like an unseen episode from the "Office" where Gareth goes Nazi.

It's difficult to feel intimidated by such clueless absurd people. Odd, that they clearly no nothing about the SWP rape cover-up

There's almost a sense of shock that anything this insanely left wing actually exists.
 
It's like an unseen episode from the "Office" where Gareth goes Nazi.

It's difficult to feel intimidated by such clueless absurd people. Odd, that they clearly no nothing about the SWP rape cover-up
why would you think thats odd?
 
I know I was there at the time . They didn't tactically approve , Hollborough and Deason initially supported them .
So many of their papersales were being turned over back then they needed to do something.

This latest thing seems to be a very ad hoc publicity stunt by a group of UKIP 'Tory Boy' types. Not even fascists. On a totally different level.
 
It's like an unseen episode from the "Office" where Gareth goes Nazi.

It's difficult to feel intimidated by such clueless absurd people. Odd, that they clearly no nothing about the SWP rape cover-up

Delta runs a blog and maintains a fairly high profile on social media and to be fair his analysis of the recent big Right demos in Whitehall are detailed and worth reading. His articles are republished by Searchlight magazine and he stills maintains contact with the UAF and occasionaly writes under a pseudonym.

He attracts an assortment of right wingers online who slag him and his research off as you would expect. Few to none bring up the fact that he was the central figure in the biggest scandal to hit the far left in recent decades. They appear to either not know or not care. Probably the former.
 
So many of their papersales were being turned over back then they needed to do something.

This latest thing seems to be a very ad hoc publicity stunt by a group of UKIP 'Tory Boy' types. Not even fascists. On a totally different level.

Hate to say this Paul but that simply isnt true. IS/SWP , what was left of the 62 movement,/yellow star and 'renegade' CP members were the most miliant anti fascists in the mid late 70s. There were some IMG types around but that was demonstration type stuff. The anarchist scene was minute. The ANL mark 1 inspired /enabled on a mass scale people who wanted to take on the NF., many of them through RAR who were working class youth and adults .Far from being turned over the fash were pushed back. It was a few years after the SWP folded the ANL that some paper sales were turned over . Not sure where you get your info from?
 
Because 2 minutes research would have meant that instead of radomly shouting "peado", they could have focused on actual sexual abuse within the party.
Write a letter of complaint , it would fit with cheer leading the alt right on to do what some sections of the left should have have done ?
 
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