butchersapron
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Don't try and change the subject. You're in the same network as cockers (or what's left of it)?
SWP expulsions and squabbles
- Thread starter Nigel Irritable
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belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
what's left of cockers? I think there is as much of him left as there ever was
butchersapron
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The network. Is this there any left?
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
In fairness it was a pretty good attempt to change the subject.
So was he in the ACI all along when he was appearing under various new names here pretending to be an outraged independent trade unionist with a highly unusual interest in the minutiae of the supposed failings of small left groups?
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
Political discussion in the ISN must be quite the experience.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
ta.
Not sure, I didnt think he was initially, but then a few of the PR lot joined when they wound themselves up. Mostly the southerners, the northerners stayed away.
butchersapron
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I'm too skilled to fall for that though. Yes, i think that is the path - it opens many things up if the case.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
I suppose we should look forward to his next identity.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
sorry, missed that before. The Network has actually been growing in the last month or two (since that there split). Even got one or two from the SP!
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
"Better fewer but better" springs to mind if people that silly exist.
butchersapron
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And cockers entering. That's double fewer and minus better to give a score of parts of the old re-configured existing left and not much else.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
not 'not much' but 'absolutely nothing' else
barney_pig
Po-cha-na-quar-hip
Dear symor U R dumpd X
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
ooh, that reminds me, 'I'have a letter to write to WW. Can't remember what it was about now.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
It's traditional to wait until you are drunk
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
A former assistant to Tristram Hunt sticks his oar in: http://averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com/2014/04/a-defence-of-swp.html
butchersapron
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Odd that that the piece says "self-described autonomist avengers." yet there is no such self-description on the site nor in the article.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
the 'For someone who's survived abuse of some kind, are a succession of violent assaults on SWP stalls going to make them feel safer on campus? No, of course they bloody won't.' line isn't bad tho
butchersapron
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Why did he make it up?
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
'Autonomous anarchist group currently active in Merseyside.' according to the blog.
butchersapron
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"self-described autonomist avengers." according to what he claims that they call themselves. Spot the difference?
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
it's fairly minor. They are self described autonomists, and are clearly acting as avengers.
butchersapron
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You mean he made it up and you're now letting him.
butchersapron
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For God's sake this is shit enough without you defending him making stuff up
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
dont be daft. You are picking an incredibly minor thing to quibble about, who gives a shit?
butchersapron
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it's only other people and who cares what they say, who cares if it's wrong or invented. It's Ok if you don't like them. Grow up. Presumably the writer did.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
Is whether they describe themselves as "avengers" or not (probably not) really the crucial issue here? They are self described autonomists and that's surely the relevant point, if we are assessing them rather than avps (presumably we can all agree to take a dim view of him regardless?)
This seems to me to be the point within twittersectionalism where certain subsets of anarchoid and certain subsets of liberal feminist start to overlap. A certain type of Trotskyoid also crosses over around parts of the ISN, but they tend to be less gung-ho on ritual banishings of the SWP.
This seems to me to be the point within twittersectionalism where certain subsets of anarchoid and certain subsets of liberal feminist start to overlap. A certain type of Trotskyoid also crosses over around parts of the ISN, but they tend to be less gung-ho on ritual banishings of the SWP.
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