SpineyNorman
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He is a complete and utter fucking idiot. You really don't want to meet him, you'd hate him.
SWP expulsions and squabbles
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He is a complete and utter fucking idiot. You really don't want to meet him, you'd hate him.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Fed up with hearing about the Springboks
Do you think they're really still members? It's pretty vehement so I can't understand why they're still in other than to pull more people away.
J Ed
Follow Back Pro Expropriation
Disappointing. I wonder how many others their being around puts off.
muscovyduck
Good IT skills and food hygiene competent
Yeah but the People's Assembly - that won't go anywhere will it?
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
leyton96
NGO's selling privilege checking solutions
That was a good laugh. Thanks for posting it.
This in particular made me chuckle
There is more chance of the SWP producing the second coming of Jesus Christ than there is of one of their NEC members getting elected to the Gen Sec position in the NUT.
Their most high profile NEC member is widely regarded as a toxic buffoon, and that's just what the rest of the left think of him! If the SWP think he is Gen Sec material then their industrial department is even dafter than I'd suspected.
There other NEC member has a reputation for being competent and collegiate as far as swoppies go, but she just doesn't have the profile to carry a national election. In any case the individual above would never continence anyone else in the SWP NEC fraction getting the nod.
The SP getting elected is pretty unlikely too mind.
Edit - Fixed the font issues with the quote
leyton96
NGO's selling privilege checking solutions
Bollox! Where's my quote gone?!?!
Anyway, this is the quote I'm referring to: "in the faint, long-distant future (whisper it quietly), the possibility that we rather than the Socialist Party might provide the next General Secretary of one of the teaching unions.
Anyway, this is the quote I'm referring to: "in the faint, long-distant future (whisper it quietly), the possibility that we rather than the Socialist Party might provide the next General Secretary of one of the teaching unions.
The Faultlines looks like a wind up to me - "revolutionary Marxists" rather than revoluntionary socialists - that sounds like a CPGB or summat phrase for a start, not SWP anyway.
SpineyNorman
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I was about to reply to that, saying why the fuck would anyone go to the trouble of setting up a blog and producing content for it just to wind up lefties.
Then I remembered that it was me who set up the PD blog and decided I should keep quiet on the subject
BK Double Stack
Reconstructed Marcyite
The most obscure blog for "winding up lefties"--directed at a subset of a subset of a subset of the US left--http://patisdead.wordpress.com/ Although, the newspaper "Urgent!" can be enjoyed by many. Even if this faultlines thing is fake, the response it is getting from ISN crowd indicates they're expecting IDOOP people to raise their heads above water soon, and not all of them intend to be friendly.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
Who? Explain.
discokermit
Well-Known Member
are you taking the piss?
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
I think you're missing the 'joke' in there. It's an admission they have no chance of winning anything, except maybe a union position or two from the Millies. And the only union they have any strength in is the teachers one, cos they're that bourgeois. It aint saying that they have any hope of winning it with their current cadre.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
not CPGB, could be some other group, tho it actually rings very true to me (as in truly by people in the SWP)
BK Double Stack
Reconstructed Marcyite
http://patisdead.wordpress.com/--made for leftists from Eastern Massachusetts in their late 20s / early 30s. There's like 20 of us. All inside jokes nobody could possibly enjoy. Except that "Urgent!" newspaper. That's good stuff.
I still think this fault lines thing, even if fake, represents something real: ex-IDOOP people still on the inside looking at the ISN on the outside. A merger with the elephant cemetary of SR could make them more or less attractive depending on who's watching.
I still think this fault lines thing, even if fake, represents something real: ex-IDOOP people still on the inside looking at the ISN on the outside. A merger with the elephant cemetary of SR could make them more or less attractive depending on who's watching.
tedsplitter
Well-Known Member
All the people that I'm aware of who are involved with that Faultlines blog, are still in the SWP. No I won't name names!
Tom A
Goat among sheep
Someone I know to be definitely an ex-swppie has just shared a post of that blog on his Facebook.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
A nice bit of shit stirring from the ISN there. Should crank up the SWP leadership's paranoia another notch.
bolshiebhoy
socialism leinster drink
Not the worst thing NI. ISO wankers are so annoying its unbelievable. I've spent last week arguing with them and wish I butchersapron with me, identity politics coming out of their arses.
bolshiebhoy
socialism leinster drink
And yes I know we contributed to them butchers. But Jesus. They are just a different breed.
BK Double Stack
Reconstructed Marcyite
Where are you arguing with the ISO? Did you mean ISN?
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
The remaining dissidents look like they are starting to move again. Here's a discussion document from Mike Gonzalez:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/141977026...achers-2?secret_password=2ecnhcy9zk0z2fgp8x8s
It's of interest less because of its argument and more because the tone it takes indicates that previous "soft" oppositionists are very hostile to the leadership.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/141977026...achers-2?secret_password=2ecnhcy9zk0z2fgp8x8s
It's of interest less because of its argument and more because the tone it takes indicates that previous "soft" oppositionists are very hostile to the leadership.
oskarsdrum
Active Member
have they split yet?
oskarsdrum
Active Member
anyway it looks like the game's almost up. seems that there are enough die hards to keep a presence going in London and a few other cities for a while yet, though! wonder when the next leadership bust-up will appear?
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