SWP expulsions and squabbles
- Thread starter Nigel Irritable
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
if any more of you do trotrap I'm calling the style police on you.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I mean whats next 'I've got subs owed in different area codes''?
imposs1904
Thread Killa'
Trotrap? Have some of the real stuff. Shachtmanite style:
I don't mind this, btw.
barney_pig
Po-cha-na-quar-hip
Weekly worker is on a stormer this week (counterfire thread for more)
"Just a short letter to wish the Communist Platform all the best at the coming Left Unity conference - a real inspiration to an old-timer like me. I enjoyed very much Jack Conrad’s use of Brecht at the last gathering and in a similar vein I have penned these lines that will hopefully inspire your comrades in their Left Unity work:
Our Communist Platform’s on the rise
Play a part and join the cry!
Our opponents, they lack some spine,
Encased in the reformist ball of twine.
Come now, comrades, conference calls.
Let’s knock down some mighty walls!
Our time is coming, just you see.
The Communist Platform is a growing tree!
Mike Hunt
email"
"Just a short letter to wish the Communist Platform all the best at the coming Left Unity conference - a real inspiration to an old-timer like me. I enjoyed very much Jack Conrad’s use of Brecht at the last gathering and in a similar vein I have penned these lines that will hopefully inspire your comrades in their Left Unity work:
Our Communist Platform’s on the rise
Play a part and join the cry!
Our opponents, they lack some spine,
Encased in the reformist ball of twine.
Come now, comrades, conference calls.
Let’s knock down some mighty walls!
Our time is coming, just you see.
The Communist Platform is a growing tree!
Mike Hunt
email"
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
mike hunt? 
has anybody seen etc
has anybody seen etc
barney_pig
Po-cha-na-quar-hip
I thought it might be one of us
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I'd like to think we are better than rhyming couplets
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
mike hunt?
You are Mos Syszlak and I claim my £5.
Dotcommie, yesterday:
39thstep?
barney_pig
Po-cha-na-quar-hip
bolshiebhoy
socialism leinster drink
You lot really don't get it do you, nice but dim as most of you are.
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Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
Isn't that the actual, genuine attitude of the Swappie leadership towards the rank and file?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
barney_pig
Po-cha-na-quar-hip
In vino veritas
SpineyNorman
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Spiney Norman's the name, I'm ahead of my game
Still, hating posh studes, still with the SP
Still not loving the Greens (Uh huh)
Still hating the hippies with their sandals and peace
Still got love for concrete, chop down all the trees
In the left, ain't too much changed, still
I'm representing all the Green haters across the world
Still get called a racist by that Penny girl
Still taking my time to win a council seat
And I still got stains on my sheets, it's N-O-R-M [Repeat 2x]
Still, hating posh studes, still with the SP
Still not loving the Greens (Uh huh)
Still hating the hippies with their sandals and peace
Still got love for concrete, chop down all the trees
In the left, ain't too much changed, still
I'm representing all the Green haters across the world
Still get called a racist by that Penny girl
Still taking my time to win a council seat
And I still got stains on my sheets, it's N-O-R-M [Repeat 2x]
rekil
to menny cranks
bolshiebhoy
socialism leinster drink
You're too easy fellas. I'm not actually sure what I had in mind, it was in fairness the night before the Majeski St Pats game.
That said, there does seem an excessive interest in the minutiae of SWP life here without a feel for the bigger picture. Fair enough I guess, if I hated the SWP I probably wouldn't take it seriously either.
That said, there does seem an excessive interest in the minutiae of SWP life here without a feel for the bigger picture. Fair enough I guess, if I hated the SWP I probably wouldn't take it seriously either.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
The AWL are now on the receiving end of rage from certain elements of the student left, as proxies for the SWP. This stems from their opposition to bans on the SWP. The AWL did all they could to make sure that hostility to the SWP spread, but now they find themselves in a situation where people are declaring that they are just as bad as the SWP, that they are putting debate above "women's safety" etc.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
On another note, an Irish left independent TD (MP) resigned from the Dail yesterday after a newspaper discovered that he'd been sending sleazy messages to women constituents, most notably a 17 year old girl.
The TD, Patrick Nulty, was originally one of a handful of remaining Labour lefts. He resigned to become an independent after refusing to back some particularly reactionary move from the government (there have been so many that I forget which one eventually proved too much for him).
The TD, Patrick Nulty, was originally one of a handful of remaining Labour lefts. He resigned to become an independent after refusing to back some particularly reactionary move from the government (there have been so many that I forget which one eventually proved too much for him).
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
Who is saying this? I'm not sure that I have that much of a problem with the SWP being treated the way they have tbh.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
Various NUS intersectionals.
The argument is explicitly that the AWL are willing to compromise "women's safety" (that is to say safety from the SWP) in the name of debate, and therefore are themselves scum.
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
Hard to disagree with that.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
They are a small group, so not usually very visible unless you happen to be involved in something they are also hanging around. Most often that means NUS stuff.
Neither they nor the people who are pissed off with them are significant in and of themselves, but there's a certain irony to the AWL getting bit on the arse over this. Also the framing of issues in terms of "safety" is of some interest, as it immediately delegitimises opposition.
Neither they nor the people who are pissed off with them are significant in and of themselves, but there's a certain irony to the AWL getting bit on the arse over this. Also the framing of issues in terms of "safety" is of some interest, as it immediately delegitimises opposition.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
The Nulty Dail resignation is the major news story here at the moment and has even made it to the New York Times.
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