This is/was especially true of Revolution (youth wing of WP). All best mates, slept with each other, didn't leave because they'd lose friends etc.
SWP expulsions and squabbles
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This is/was especially true of Revolution (youth wing of WP). All best mates, slept with each other, didn't leave because they'd lose friends etc.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
It's not a perception.
Since I returned from the UK 6 months ago I have yet to see ANYTHING in my new home town from ANY radical groups. No posters, no stickers. No stalls. No flyers in the local "alternative cafes", nothing on campus, nothing in the town centre on a Saturday. No up to date websites. No public meetings. No protests. No buses to protests. NOTHING. I don't live in a small town either.
The Green Party on the other hand are reasonably visible.
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
thats weird when i lived there i always saw class war stickers on lamp posts.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
Activist ghettos. Be they the SWP or animal rights or Squatted social centres or whatever.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
I see old, faded stuff here and there. SP posters from a couple of years ago. And I once saw a couple of IWW posters. But nothing published in the last 12-18 months.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
where's this? sorry, just being nosey.
fwiw, it was always my experience that swp members "in the sticks" were not as snotty as the ones you'd encounter in the big cities. maybe it was just something in the local water supply but I'm guessing they just didn't have the numbers to throw their weight about.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
Abandoned
You could organise something yourself?
I could. I won't though.
I'm not upset about the absence of any activist scene.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
My experience matches yours. There was a clear divide in my area between the SWP and the non-SWP left, which included the AWL, SolFed, Labour lefts, old CPers and social centre anarchists. If the SWPers did leave the party, I can't see them joining this "joint scene" though.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
But Reading's not immune from cuts (for example) or workfare, or benefits sanctions. I suppose I wasn't really thinking about direct action as a 'scene' more as activity if that's important.
bolshiebhoy
socialism leinster drink
I nearly joined counterfire and was told there was one other guy 50 miles away. So yeah in the sticks it's labour or nothing.
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
your local football team is sponsored by Waitrose. You're lucky you even have a local Labour Party.
I'm showing my age again but I'm sure Proletarian Gob was produced out of Reading.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
It was, the old days of Thames valley anarchists, red menace etcyour local football team is sponsored by Waitrose. You're lucky you even have a local Labour Party.
I'm showing my age again but I'm sure Proletarian Gob was produced out of Reading.
L&S's second largest branch was Reading
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
Proletarian Gob introduced me to Calvin and Hobbes. For that alone, I salute
Das Uberdog
remembers the alamo
Oisin123
So Much for Subtlety
Aha. Now I think I am beginning to understand your complex beliefs. Your occasional defence of the SWP CC and membership of Swindon Labour Party are not as contradictory as they seem if we understand you as a political masochist, who loves the flick of the central authority's whip.
The Labour party doesn't need to wield a whip against it's activists.
articul8
Dishonest sociopath
He's in Swindon Labour party? With Andy Newman
?
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
(((Rosie Winterton)))
Oisin123
So Much for Subtlety
Crazy, isn't it? But then, somehow, you get used to the idea.He's in Swindon Labour party? With Andy Newman
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
it would have to find them first before they could get round to whipping them.
*It says something when an SPGBer can take the piss out of another party's lack of activism.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
(((Rosy Newman)))
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
Yeah. I'm not talking about activity. There's always something to be done. I'm talking about a scene. A package of activism with a ready-made social circle and busy calendar. Something to fill the void that SWP refugees would immediatly feel.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
Why would I want to do that?
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
I have vague memories of all kinds of itersting things being produced witha c/o address at the rising Sun institue in Reading. i walj past that place most days now. Its a sad looking building now.your local football team is sponsored by Waitrose. You're lucky you even have a local Labour Party.
I'm showing my age again but I'm sure Proletarian Gob was produced out of Reading.
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