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SWP expulsions and squabbles

Nigel said:
When I was about 11yrs old at YCND meetings, I met and was good friends with Wayne Sturgeon, whom I was involved in quite a bit of political activity, from animal rights, Stop The City, Squat Party's Benefits, supporting workers at engineering plants in Crawley West Sussex such as APV; selling Direct Action, Class War, involved in local Anarcho paper Nyet Pravda etc. etc. Wayne convinced me to become involved with Libertarian Communist Discussion Group; to become ACF and now AF.
Wayne moved to Luton and I sort of kept in contact with him however he became pretty disillusioned with traditional Anarchist politics when he came into confrontation with a young woman called Lorna over Radical Feminism most controversial issue Molesworth Rapes. During this time he became a Christian.
i spent quite a lot of time with Wayne while living in Brighton, that time he seemed to have moved further from Evangelical Christianity and nearer to Quaker movement. In fact the last time that I physically saw Wayne was when he got married at Brighton Meeting House in the early nineties to his first wife.Around that time I had not kept that much in contact with Wayne as I was occupied with other pursuits, travelling, working in surveying department for Southern Water, Convoys to Bosnia and other political activity; Class War, Anti Poll Tax, AFA etc.
It was around early 2000 when through mainly ex Anarcho, Anti Folk and would be 'peoples poets' types in Brighton that I re-contacted Wayne, by telephoning him, of which he did not greet me as an old friend as I thought he would. I be-friended him on social media; mainly Facebook and we soon fell out over politics. I still get questioned if not harassed sometimes from people in Brighton; mainly ex Anarchos and hippy types living in Lewes about hardline position in not having anything to do with Wayne.
This is all I can remember on the subject. If you have any other queries please ask. However all I can say is that I didn't think that Wayne's politics were as bad as I thought, after all in mid teens we were involved as Anarchists in anti fascist stuff. However after getting back in contact with him it did not take long for me to cut myself off from him and visa versa.
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Picture of myself with the said infamous and notorious Wayne Sturgeon!
Must mean I'm a Naaarrrttttzzziiii!
 

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Fedayn said:
Mark didn't know he was getting into a public row, The SP in some distorted view of transparency though it would be an idea to compare the timid approach of Serwotka and the heroic commitment to paper sales during social distancing as employed by the heroic SP. It is basically the SP using it as a stick to push their PCS Broad Left Network and to tie iit in with their opposition to not holding the NEC and GEC annual elections and showing who the 'real fighters' are. The 3 BLN members on the NEC argued that the events of Covid prove they are right to want to hold the elections. They have not explained why but apparently they are those defending the principle of Annual Elections. Those principles seemed quiet when they supported not holding the annual elections a few years back because of an admittedly serious financial position. in PCS at the time. Indeed, they were saying people who blindly opposed holding the elections were not loyal to PCS. They are truly fucking wired.
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On a lefty trainspotter note, there's been some ongoing consequences from this, in that PCS has now officially fucked the NSSN off:
letter from PCS
NSSN reply
Also touches on the Paul Holmes situation in Unison. (ETA: After a brief looking around, I think this is the article, or one of the articles, that the PCS leadership were complaining about?)
 
i couldn't see anything about SWP membership in the Sheff' Star JHE? Is this Murch person commonly known as SWP ?
 
He was (currently suspended) quite a prominent Swappie face in Sheffield NEU and on the Union NEC, according to Workers Liberty:

Socialist Workers' Party: Split or choreographed manoeuvre, they've let us down, again.

The self-styled 'revolutionary party' the Socialist Workers' Party (SWP) are much diminished from their 80s and 90s peak. They have been, rightly, shattered by their decision to put protecting their organisation and leading members of it ahead of ensuring a fair hearing for young women in their...
www.workersliberty.org www.workersliberty.org
 
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Rob Ray said:
He was (currently suspended) quite a prominent Swappie face in Sheffield NEU and on the Union NEC, according to the Weekly Worker:

Socialist Workers' Party: Split or choreographed manoeuvre, they've let us down, again.

The self-styled 'revolutionary party' the Socialist Workers' Party (SWP) are much diminished from their 80s and 90s peak. They have been, rightly, shattered by their decision to put protecting their organisation and leading members of it ahead of ensuring a fair hearing for young women in their...
www.workersliberty.org www.workersliberty.org
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That's not the Weekly Worker
 
Rob Ray said:
He was (currently suspended) quite a prominent Swappie face in Sheffield NEU and on the Union NEC, according to Workers Liberty:

Socialist Workers' Party: Split or choreographed manoeuvre, they've let us down, again.

The self-styled 'revolutionary party' the Socialist Workers' Party (SWP) are much diminished from their 80s and 90s peak. They have been, rightly, shattered by their decision to put protecting their organisation and leading members of it ahead of ensuring a fair hearing for young women in their...
www.workersliberty.org www.workersliberty.org
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Does anyone know if he is suspended from the SWP then? or suspended from NEU positions? The above report quite old.
 
He's not on the NEU list of current NEC members (would have been Section 2) but there's only three names in that section and four everywhere else, so I'm guessing he was still on it up until the suspension? Nothing about it on SWP social media that I can see but whether that's about inefficiency, the time needed to draft something or head-burying is impossible to say.
 
Usually nothing much, but given their previous if it were me on the CC I'd be (briefly) announcing his suspension publicly asap, simply because the longer you leave it the more inevitable comparisons with Comrade Delta are going to be made.
 
The Central Committee of the SWP has issued a statement. They have expelled Murch and, interestingly, they seem to have no doubt about his guilt. Have they decided the presumption of innocence is bourgeois nonsense? Maybe, but an alternative explanation is that they know more about Murch and his antics than they care to say.

"Wednesday 06 September 2023

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We were made aware of the arrest of Simon Murch for the rape of a child. We immediately expelled him from the Socialist Workers Party. He is not a member. We are appalled by Simon Murch’s actions.

Socialist Workers Party Central Committee, 6 September 2023"


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JHE said:
The Central Committee of the SWP has issued a statement. They have expelled Murch and, interestingly, they seem to have no doubt about his guilt. Have they decided the presumption of innocence is bourgeois nonsense? Maybe, but an alternative explanation is that they know more about Murch and his antics than they care to say.

"Wednesday 06 September 2023

Content warning

We were made aware of the arrest of Simon Murch for the rape of a child. We immediately expelled him from the Socialist Workers Party. He is not a member. We are appalled by Simon Murch’s actions.

Socialist Workers Party Central Committee, 6 September 2023"


socialistworker.co.uk

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What a bizarre statement, if it can even be called that.
 
Horrible. I imagine lots of parents will be worried as a primary school teacher might not suddenly do this. How many has he taught over the years?
 
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