'SWP urge members to get involved with 'Momentum'

[Prince Rhyus]

Twitter's just picked up on this:



Given the recent splits (Counterfire etc) how do you think this'll go down on the ground?

 

[J Ed]

They will either be a outnumbered minority or Momentum will just become and look like another SWP front with the same people doing the same things in the same way.

 

[comrade spurski]

I ain't defending the swp and have no time for them but the link to the swp website doesn't "urge members to join"...just says socialists inside and outside the Labour party should support it.

 

[Bakunin]

how do you think this'll go down on the ground?

Like the airship, not the band.

 

[Prince Rhyus]

I ain't defending the swp and have no time for them but the link to the swp website doesn't "urge members to join"...just says socialists inside and outside the Labour party should support it.

This links back to the Corbyn & media thread - mainstream media types claiming it's about SWP and other far left groups joining Labour rather than stating it for what it is. Not seen any public gatherings of Momentum as yet.

 

[treelover]

We should go along to any local Momentum meetings with the aim of taking part as open SWP members, suggesting joint activity, and sign up to be on the email lists. A launch meeting in Manchester last week attracted 70 people, many of them new and comrades had a friendly response when they raised common activity."

Pro-Corbyn group Momentum vows to resist SWP "infiltration"

Kiss of death, must be challenged.

 

[butchersapron]

Kiss of death, must be challenged.

Why? How? By who?

 

[chilango]

Kiss of death, must be challenged.

Let the dead bury the dead.

 

[Santino]

Why? How? By who?

By whom.

 

[butchersapron]

Fewer.

 

[butchersapron]

Let the dead bury the dead.

Let the dead disinter the dead.

This time we mean it.

 

[Idris2002]

Let the old dead make way for the young dead.

 

[Bakunin]

Kiss of death, must be challenged.

Already has been, apparently:

Pro-Corbyn group Momentum vows to resist SWP "infiltration"

 

[comrade spurski]

Non of the swp material quoted suggests they plan to "infiltrate" or "urge their members to join" ... the swp stuff simply suggests going to their meetings, proposing joint activity and saying its a good idea.

Just looks like good old fashioned red baiting by right wing blairite wankers looking to stick the boot in on Corbyn rather than the Tories

 

[laptop]

Non of the swp material quoted suggests they plan to "infiltrate" or "urge their members to join" ... the swp stuff simply suggests going to their meetings, proposing joint activity and saying its a good idea.

That's what they always said when they were about to try to take over and destroy a movement or a campaign that threatened their sought-for monopoly.

 

[Pickman's model]

it'll all be over by xmas

 

[DotCommunist]

it'll all be over by xmas

the SWP or corbynmania[question mark]

 

[laptop]

it'll all be over by xmas

* digs trench *

 

[comrade spurski]

That's what they always said when they were about to try to take over and destroy a movement or a campaign that threatened their sought-for monopoly.

Then it would be better to argue that point.
I aint got any time for the swp but this just comes across as red baiting to batter Corbyn with imo

 

[comrade spurski]

it'll all be over by xmas

the SWP or corbynmania[question mark]

Chritmas shopping, stupid

 

[SpineyNorman]

Kiss of death, must be challenged.

If I thought it held promise and I was worried about it getting wrecked or taken over in a top-down fashion the (heavily weakened) SWP would be pretty low down my list of suspects - I'd start by worrying about the Labour Party people.

 

[Bakunin]

it'll all be over by xmas

Pickman's, yesterday:

 

[nino_savatte]

Twitter's just picked up on this:



Given the recent splits (Counterfire etc) how do you think this'll go down on the ground?

Crick's making a fucking clown of himself tbh.

 

[Pickman's model]

the SWP or corbynmania[question mark]

would like to say both but think corbynmania the more likely casualty

 

[LDC]

would like to say both but think corbynmania the more likely casualty

For sure, cockroaches, rats, and the SWP will be the only things left after the nuclear winter.

 

[Pickman's model]

For sure, cockroaches, rats, and the SWP will be the only things left after the nuclear winter.

yeh. but we're relying on the rats and cockroaches to finally eradicate the swp.

 

[treelover]

Momentum must guard itself against the SWP

The original article, very incisive and bang on, imo.

 

[likesfish]

Labour have gained more members in the last few months than the swp have ever had they ain't wanted or needed.

 

[KeeperofDragons]

Crick's making a fucking clown of himself tbh.

Doesn't he always

 

[taffboy gwyrdd]

I ain't defending the swp and have no time for them but the link to the swp website doesn't "urge members to join"...just says socialists inside and outside the Labour party should support it.

Which makes Crick a liar and a shit journalist.