Unison must be the swp's main anchor into the wider movement. This expression of no confidence in the swp's current top table is catastrophic - i can't think of a proper equivalent, but it holds the prospect of serious problems for Unison swp activists. The employers are unlikely not to notice the increasing isolation of prominent swp people who are a pain in their arse. No doubt Yunus's situation will be on the minds of several comrades in the coming period..
SWP expulsions and squabbles
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They've lost Unite already, they do still have a "significant" level of activity in the UCU and NUT I believe but obviously they're much smaller and more exclusive unions, and they may have lost them and I've not noticed.
leyton96
NGO's selling privilege checking solutions
Not really. Their presence in Unison is fairly marginal nowadays compared to what it once was. They only have two members on the NEC and a handful of positions on SGE's, branch secretaries etc. It's mostly because of their incompetent handling of the witch hunt against their members. The Unison bureaucracy rolled them up like wet cardboard.
I don't think any of the SWP fronts are funded by Unison in fact. Their main "anchor into the wider movement" is the UCU where they have their biggest industrial presence and the PCS which basically bankrolls the SWP via UAF. I've always thought it one of the supreme ironies of the left that an unintended side effect of the Socialist Party leading the left to reclaim PCS has been tens of thousands of pounds going to the SWP.
They also get a fair bit of money from the CWU (again via UAF), for reasons best known to Billy Hayes.
Despite that the resignations from UUL will have a big impact on their trade union work.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Why on earth would you think that this is their motivation?
Unison still gives some money to UAF... you're right about the PCS I forgot them, but the SWP are certainly bigger in Unison than the CWU - Billy Hayes is a bit eccentric
Building the party, to become a bigger more effective presence in the labour movement, and ultimately a pole of attraction for militant workers in a revolutionary moment has always been the central strategy hasn't it?
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
They aren't significant players in any of the unions mentioned bar UCU. My understanding is that, although well behind the UCU, they are still of some importance in the NUT.
In Unison they've been reduced to supporting Labour Left candidates through the UUL. So losing that connection to some of those people is a set back. But a setback to an already weak position.
That's not the motivation of Alexander the Great and Charles Timberland though
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
It's always been the stated aim of some people in the party. That their long term actions have had the opposite effect and still they hang would suggest to me other motivations.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Hangover from when Jane loftus was still in the party. They can't just stop supporting it, just cos it's shit.
big is relative of course they're small in a union which claims over a million members.
Oisin123
So Much for Subtlety
http://www.scribd.com/mobile/doc/177582983
An opposition reply to Callinicos and Kimber. Read it and squirm BB. It's a developed statement of a much repeated point here, that this clash concerns the politics of rape not the question of movementism.
An opposition reply to Callinicos and Kimber. Read it and squirm BB. It's a developed statement of a much repeated point here, that this clash concerns the politics of rape not the question of movementism.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
I presume as it's a reply we should assume same authors (or same signees)?
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
I think it's from one individual, Ross Speer.
no relation to Albert?
Fedayn
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Fedayn
Well-Known Member
They are fairly influential in PCS, 4 members on the NEC, active if annoying within DWP and other groups. A fairly large number of well known and respected activists within the union.
Its possible i suppose, but its hard to see what other motivations there might be. Are you suggesting MI5 spook stuff?
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
I'm suggesting that the vanguard of the class is ill equipped whoever wins and that such a daft view of politics needs to die with the party.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
So. Delta has funding to do a PhD in social work 
http://angrywomen.wordpress.com/201...given-phd-place-at-liverpool-hope-university/
http://angrywomen.wordpress.com/201...given-phd-place-at-liverpool-hope-university/
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
I don't know how it works, but it seems very strange.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Everything everywhere is stitched up, but the lav went with respect years ago i think
If there is "a case to answer" regarding Martin Smith's conduct within the SWP, why on earth would a leading party figure like Lavelette compromise themselves in the way that the angrywomen imply?
The lunatics have occupied the asylum and the entire swp situation appears more and more irredeemable.
The lunatics have occupied the asylum and the entire swp situation appears more and more irredeemable.
I suspect it's rare that being mates with the head of department does one's application any harm...
OTOH, just this week I heard of Callinicos sitting in a pub trying to persuade a Party prospect to give up their MA and work full-time for the Revolution.
Shame, really, that Smith wasn't shoehorned into Kings. He could have had a harder time...
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You sure? Whenever I've seen him about its been in the company of Swp types.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Well that article isn't very clear so I'm not sure exactly how Delta is getting his funding. Normally your funding wouldn't come from the university but from one of the research councils. Universities can also give out their own scholarships too though.
Either way having the Head of Department on your side is hardly going to do you any harm.
EDIT: Of course he could be funding it out of his own pocket, I mean the article claims that
but it seems to be confusing/conflating funding with getting a place.
It's not a very article really is it.
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butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Nope, not sure, he also gets a namedrop in ythis quarters ISJ.
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