SWP expulsions and squabbles
- Thread starter Nigel Irritable
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I just don't understand why Muslims didn't want to come to our meeting on Women's Liberation?!
SpineyNorman
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@DelroyBooth - I'll send you a PM. It was the cadre schools I was talking about, couldn't remember what they called them, in the two years since I joined there's been at least 3 a year, all of them in Leeds for some reason. What we've started doing now is splitting them into workshop kind of things, where someone introduces a topic for 10 minutes or so then you discuss it as a group for an hour or 2. I probably do sound like a hack now but this lack of interaction regionally just doesn't match my experience at all. They're often dead boring, with people saying the same old shit that everyone already knows and doesn't need to hear again, but they do happen.
ReturnOfElfman
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SpackleFrog
Smash showy bell-bottom pants and sporty haircuts
I'd agree with this, the organisational norm in the SP is to have elected regional committees, regional conferences/discussion weekends, regional activity etc. It's certainly the case in my area. If anything, members complain about being asked to go to too many regional meetings and at busy periods turn out can be low, which is unfortunate but at least they have the option.
I'm sorry if no one ever invited you to one, that's very bad, but frogwoman and spineynorman are right, it's not normally how it goes. And like spineynorman the hacks are a problem but at least we have spaces to shout at them and disagree.
I know, fucking hell everyone's been out there having a great time and not telling me.
Fuck you all I'm joining the CPGB now anyway, I wanna write for the weekly worker.
Fuck you all I'm joining the CPGB now anyway, I wanna write for the weekly worker.
cesare
shady's dreams ♥
You've probably had a better time by not going
You could try joining the ICC and go to LOADS of meetings
You've probably had a better time by not going
You could try joining the ICC and go to LOADS of meetings
Will that show 'em? Will they all rue they day they scorned me if I went to it? Will it be full of other bitter dejected fuckups who've been through every party and sect in the country until they finally make it down to the ICC?? If so, sign me up.
Oisin123
So Much for Subtlety
And it can't be a co-incidence they have the world's best contemporary music festival there too. The AMM should start a branch in Huddersfield
Not if they want to enjoy a long healthy life they shouldn't....
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
sexual life-stylers?
Disparaging label for gay homosexualist people whose politics are informed by their sexuality. Label used for Tatchell back in the day, too.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
My sister is running a pub in Slaithwaite do the anarchists extend that far or is it AAM/Radfem territory? I will have to go out and investigate.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
aren't most homosexualists gay?
Oh you mean Slawitt? You should've said! Yes I think that all falls under the remit of Huddersfield Anarchist League
Oisin123
So Much for Subtlety
Are you referring to the high levels of background radiation? Or is are the SP/ best anarchists in the world influenced more by dialogue from Westerns than revolutionary theory?
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Yes dear, it's a pisstake.
Imagine if Ken Loach had directed the first series of Last of the Summer Wine. Then imagine Trevor Griffith's and Clint Eastwood collaborated to write the script. Then you're on the right lines
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Imagine if Ken Loach had directed the first series of Last of the Summer Wine. Then imagine Trevor Griffith's and Clint Eastwood collaborated to write the script. Then you're on the right lines
Would have to have a Raven in it
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Rav
barney_pig
Po-cha-na-quar-hip
You'll regret it,
Barney_pig: making mistakes so YOU don't have to!
were you in the CPGB barney? Tell me more?
Would here be a good place to start going on about scurrilous rumours I've been hearing about current ructions in the SWP?? Or should I be sensible and save what little dignity I have?
Oh ok well apparently this group of opposition are never going to get to the 20% threshold, because there's a load of paper branches that have only a nominal membership, that most members don't even realise exist, that they can never win the support of, that'll prevent them from getting to the target. Rotten boroughs, in other words.
Would here be a good place to start going on about scurrilous rumours I've been hearing about current ructions in the SWP?? Or should I be sensible and save what little dignity I have?
Oh ok well apparently this group of opposition are never going to get to the 20% threshold, because there's a load of paper branches that have only a nominal membership, that most members don't even realise exist, that they can never win the support of, that'll prevent them from getting to the target. Rotten boroughs, in other words.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
Keep 'em coming.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Why aren't Mielville and Seymour out yet? It's nearly monday night.
OOPS double post
someone said further up that Mieville is out
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
That was in the penny piece. And the out bit was, i think, BB, saying that he will now be expelled. No doubt his great mate SLK will inform us further.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
That they haven't started the mass expulsions is an indication of weakness. Not an indication that the leadership is about to be ousted, but a sign that they are afraid that instant expulsions will only inflame further opposition. I suspect that they were cooped up all day in the bunker scheming, trying to isolate the hard line opposition rather than pushing softer oppositionists into their hands.
And no, neither Seymour nor Mieville are out as of this morning at least.
And no, neither Seymour nor Mieville are out as of this morning at least.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Delta was publicly fronting UAF stuff this week.
I think you're wrong - the big heads will go in order to inflame - then lockdown - under attack, then CC does what it wants. Like the 80s but in very very very fast motion.
I think you're wrong - the big heads will go in order to inflame - then lockdown - under attack, then CC does what it wants. Like the 80s but in very very very fast motion.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
I must say that i am encourged by the determination of Rosa Lichenstein and her/his web links to anti- dialectic uk. There can't be many web site/comments pages on the left that hasn't had the offer to find out why the far left has stagnated over the past ten years or so by linking to that web site. Brilliant.
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