The SWP a few years ago were talking about re-establishing rank and file groups, although I can't see this as being possible in the current situation, maybe this was a response to up swing in industrial and white collar trade union disputes with 'Corbynism'.
I never experienced that tbh. My experience was that normally the party leadership got its way, that the party would soften send CC members to branches where they hadn't won the argument and that full timers would work hard to try and get members to toe the line. However, I opposed the expulsion of 'the squadists', closure of rank and file groups, and on tactics in strikes and disputes often argue successfully against or to modify the full timers line and don't get me started on key issues like the ending of the beer break.
Internationalists are presumably big fans of Cross-Country Kautsky
ThanksChingari was the SWP Asian paper.
Splits and Fusions has some copies of that and Flame:
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Which direction politically did they go in?
Not off the top of my head!
What's the point of saying that 'quite a few drifted to the GLC' then if you cant give any examples? The GLC created a number of jobs/roles to tackle racism or discrimination, there were members of the SWP who worked for the GLC and other councils in some of these positions. It doesn't mean that they were aligned with Ken Livingston and the Labour left.
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Your continued sneering about this is quite funny to me, because outside of the dinosaur left who are still trying to find the British working class in factories, it's widely recognised as an observable phenomenon which certain tendencies in the economy have made inevitable. Why do you think UVW had an architects' section (since moved to Unite), when architects basically never unionise? Also: they largely have.
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I'm not sure what is ridiculous about it?
I'll tell you what is ridiculous and that is an unfounded assertion that I think the working class is composed of sheet metal workers, dockers and miners . Where's your evidence of that ?
No evidence - but I'm baffled by what you think is so ridiculous about that phrase, and short of you actually explaining what you find ridiculous about it, I can only guess it is something like an outdated idea of what the working class looks like.
Rather than guess why don't you go and look at the thread where this alliance between the precarious workers and the downward middle class was touted as the way forward? Also, .try and work out why Fozzie Bear opined that I had a keen sense of the ridiculous. Hint, there may be a bigger picture than just the sentence you are focussing on.
I don't know which thread that is.
Well , there you go.
i have only had a couple of jobs that specify 'must have a degree'. one of them was archives assistant. fuck knows why they put it in the job specification, everything i learned about local history and archives i got on the job. and in many ways it was similar to library assistant (in academic libraries), for which no degree is required: although given the great number of applicants for such posts it's now an informal requirement.
the only worming class job i can think of is veterinarians. and i'm sure that requires a degree.
you're confused. clearly. as in one post you state jobs that require a degree are middle class jobs. and here you say nurses are working class. and i suppose you know that nurses require a degree. there's some cognitive dissonance in your posts.
Sorry, but the idea that nurses, teachers are middle class (both require degrees) is seriously out dated mate.
That's kind of my point, nurses and teachers could be some examples of downwardly mobile middle class - professions formerly considered solid middle class but now with significantly poorer conditions and status.
this doesn't address your cognitive dissonance. and when were nurses solidly middle class? obvs they are now if you're going with your jobs that need a degree bit. but before? and teachers? tbh it sounds like you're addressing us through your posterior.
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