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SWP expulsions and squabbles

So that answers a question asked higher up the thread

also I clicked on a link on that blog which led through to the idiot Cliffite's blog - the last article on it from 2008 is worth a read if you like a laugh at a short polemical oiece that gets almost every fact wrong in the first two paragraphs.
I thought the cliffite that sometimes come here is a Londoner, possibly even a Brixton local :confused:
 
It's Gilad Atzmon. He comes out with a dozen things like that before breakfast every day, the fruitbat.

He's the only real example of a self-hating Jew that I've ever met.
He's the exception that proves the rule. If everyone accused of being a self-hating Jew really was one, there'd be a lot more madness involved with Jewish criticism of zionism. And more jazz.
 
there are plenty of self hating jews about.
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"We worship Haman"
 
there are plenty of self hating jews about.

Where?
According to the monthly newsletter of some of the shuls in Stamford Hill, kids complaining about visiting relatives on Jewish holidays is a form of self-hating Judaism - they have to be read to be believed.
 
IIRC he left the SWP though?
Really, I haven't heard anything but it is possible. I was just going off the list of names attached to the DC statement, but as it only gives a second initial it could be someone else with the same first name. He was a speaker at Marxism 2011 but not 2012 so I guess he could have left in the last year or so.
 
Blimey, looks as though the leadership have pulled out all the stops to get members old and new out on the streets for the solidarity with Greece UAF picket. I've seen photos (Edit: Not just the Greek Embassy either). Reminds me of the Sun headline from 1979: Crisis? What Crisis?
 
Sussex SWSS the latest group to put out a statement denouncing the CC. Makes references to the leadership sacking fulltimers and putting a new lider maximo in charge of the student work.
 
FB full of pics from the embassy demo from all wings of the party. Nothing like a Benn speech to bring everyone together.

Don't be silly. It's interesting that there's been a big mobilisation though: the leadership giving the troops something inconsequential to mobilise for, and the opposition not wanting to be outflanked on the issue of party loyalty.
 
Was in Bookmarks earlier. Was tempted to ask if Seymour's book on Hitchens was out yet, all naive like. But since I found a bargain by Carlo Ginzburg I didn't bother

My mate (who works there) told me that Bookmarks is where the bad comrades go!
 
I'm currently writing a murder mystery set in a future Britain run by trots and schoolchildren have to learn about the history of all the splits in the 4th International when they are at school

Btw I've got about 10-15k left to write on this, let me know if you're interested in reading it :D
 
There was an SWP paper seller stood outside the main entrance to the Luddites memorial meeting at York guildhall today. I said to him "don't you feel ashamed of yourself selling that, considering all that's been going on" and he said "No, not at all" before mumbling something about how conference had decided and how it's all behind them.

He didn't sell a single copy, or even bother to come to the meeting itself and pay his respect to those who were hung.

I'm absolutely convinced that fuckers like that would still be selling their papers no matter what the leadership do. If it came out tomorrow that the entire CC were a peadophile ring masquerading as a political party then I don't think people like that would give any more of a shit.
 
I'm absolutely convinced that fuckers like that would still be selling their papers no matter what the leadership do. If it came out tomorrow that the entire CC were a peadophile ring masquerading as a political party then I don't think people that would give any more of a shit.

Can't respond properly, but that's a gross slur.
 
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