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Zoe Williams pulls out of Marxism

Well folks, the sun is shining, the football season is (almost) over and the annual 'Cyber-hunt of soft left Marxism contributors' has kicked off.
It can only mean the summer has begun!

Edit: Here's a fuller thread. Some interesting remarks from Williams on how she views Marxism. Clearly there are a layer of liberal academics and journos who don't even view Marxism as an SWP event. Genius marketing by the SWP I have to say!
 
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Strange one this. If I were a cynic I'd wonder if the organisers had included a few lightweights as easy targets for the Twitterers.

The fact that a mass complaint by three people was enough to get her to pull out is mildly surprising, but it's hardly a killing blow - the last session before the rally on the Monday suggests they weren't expecting her to have a mass audience.

Given her output as a Guardian political columnist* I'd have expected something worthy, but hardly a clarion call to occupy the huge number of "investment" flats in London. Though I guess we'll never know.

I honestly wonder how anybody has time for twitter. I also think it might actually be dangerous - yesterday I was driving through London when this guy stepped into the road at a crossing without even looking up from whatever vital tweet he was tapping into his phone. Luckily for both of us he wasn't wearing earphones and so heard the horn and screech of brakes and jumped back out of the way. How's that for a bizarre non sequitur?

Edit * From Wikipedia: Zoe Williams (8 April 2014). "Stop calling Tony Blair a war criminal. The left should be proud of his record". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 April 2014.
 
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Trappist said:
Strange one this. If I were a cynic I'd wonder if the organisers had included a few lightweights as easy targets for the Twitterers.

The fact that a mass complaint by three people was enough to get her to pull out is mildly surprising, but it's hardly a killing blow - the last session before the rally on the Monday suggests they weren't expecting her to have a mass audience.

Given her output as a Guardian political columnist I'd have expected something worthy, but hardly a clarion call to occupy the huge number of "investment" flats in London. Though I guess we'll never know.

I honestly wonder how anybody has time for twitter. I also think it might actually be dangerous - yesterday I was driving through London when this guy stepped into the road at a crossing without even looking up from whatever vital tweet he was tapping into his phone. Luckily for both of us he wasn't wearing earphones and so heard the horn and screech of brakes and jumped back out of the way. How's that for a bizarre non sequitur?
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How could you see he was on Twitter? Maybe it was Facebook or urban75?
 
Sectarian spoof which might or might not amuse....
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On a Marxism 2015 poster in kilburn someone scrawled in black marker "killed 100million in the 20th centuary"
I was thinkin to meself the problem with the cliffittes was they didn't kill anyone in the 20th centuary , but then I thought by way of their campaigning and electioneering for labour over the years, we can probably credit them with a million or two.
 
Limerick Red said:
On a Marxism 2015 poster in kilburn someone scrawled in black marker "killed 100million in the 20th centuary"
I was thinkin to meself the problem with the cliffittes was they didn't kill anyone in the 20th centuary , but then I thought by way of their campaigning and electioneering for labour over the years, we can probably credit them with a million or two.
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are you including death by ennui?
 
Limerick Red said:
On a Marxism 2015 poster in kilburn someone scrawled in black marker "killed 100million in the 20th centuary"
I was thinkin to meself the problem with the cliffittes was they didn't kill anyone in the 20th centuary , but then I thought by way of their campaigning and electioneering for labour over the years, we can probably credit them with a million or two.
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marxism posters at the start of saturdays demo had 'fuck off rape apologists' written on them.
 
Anyone know how much involvement the SWP has in organising the Corbyn rallies, if any, perhaps through the Peoples Assembly?, spotted Chris Nineham (ex SWP) at the London rally with JC looking officious.
 
treelover said:
Anyone know how much involvement the SWP has in organising the Corbyn rallies, if any, perhaps through the Peoples Assembly?, spotted Chris Nineham (ex SWP) at the London rally with JC looking officious.
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Corbyn doesn't strike me as the officious looking type :p

I imagine Nineham knows Corbyn through Stop the War/Coalitions of Resistance/etc. I'm not even sure if Chris is still in Counterfire.

Other than that I'm sure JC is cute enough to avoid any involvement with left groups outside the Labour Party, or Trots inside it.

As for the SWP - gritted teeth as they welcome his bandwagon, maybe? :)
 
Nah, Nineham is still in Counterfire and Counterfire are one of the controlling groups of the People's Assembly which has beeen backing Corbyn for quite a time. Remember the recent A-B anti-austerity march organised by PA which ended up with speakers providing a love-in for Corbyn, so yes Trots are pushing pro-Corbyn stuff in big way as are Left Unity and the RS21 etc etc lot working inside them
 
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