I see the glimmer of a bright new dawn of peace and plenty for the working class. Or maybe I left a light on in the kitchen.Too busy building Stop The War Coalition in Oxfordshire and supporting genuine anti imperialists and anti fascists actively!
How is Putin?Don't see the point or have the time/inclination in having argument lasting days on this forum!
Made my position pretty clear on other thread(s)!
Too busy building Stop The War Coalition in Oxfordshire and supporting genuine anti imperialists and anti fascists actively!
Ah, the genuine anti-imperialists and anti-fascists!Too busy building Stop The War Coalition in Oxfordshire and supporting genuine anti imperialists and anti fascists actively!
Such as, for instance, any anti-fascists actually active inside Ukraine.Ah, the genuine anti-imperialists and anti-fascists!
Down with the ersatz, a bit false, not up to the mark, faux, counterfeit anti-imperialist and anti-fascist running dogs!
Ah, the genuine anti-imperialists and anti-fascists!
Down with the ersatz, a bit false, not up to the mark, faux, counterfeit anti-imperialist and anti-fascist running dogs!
Hello Nigel, you've said you don't want to engage in long discussions on here, so here's a quick one for you. There may be other urbanites active in the stwc, but you are the most prominent currently: would you support George Galloway being expelled from the stwc?Region(s)
Yoo-hoo, Nigel!Hello Nigel, you've said you don't want to engage in long discussions on here, so here's a quick one for you. There may be other urbanites active in the stwc, but you are the most prominent currently: would you support George Galloway being expelled from the stwc?
Whether I'd like to see George Galloway thrown out or if I would support his expulsion are two different things!Hello Nigel, you've said you don't want to engage in long discussions on here, so here's a quick one for you. There may be other urbanites active in the stwc, but you are the most prominent currently: would you support George Galloway being expelled from the stwc?
Yoo-hoo, Nigel!
True, true - mind my manners! But now you are here...I'm not on your beckon call 24hrs a day!
ApologiesTrue, true - mind my manners! But now you are here...
Thanks for the reply.Whether I'd like to see George Galloway thrown out or if I would support his expulsion are two different things!
I find his Strasserite politics despicable, however have admiration for standing by his opinion and political stance, even in such an egomanical way!
I'm glad that Melanchon has told his followers and supporters not to vote for Marine Le Pen; he was arguing that Melanchon supporters back the crypto fascists and back her!
In my opinion Galloway has stated some things that go directly against STWC and there would be reason to take him to tribunal and/or some disciplinary process, on some of the comments he has made & opinions taken!
If such a judgement was made that he either retracts some of his more Pro Putin reactionary positions or face expulsion; I'm sure with many others there would be few tears shed on Gorgeous George departing ways with STWC.
Another point, his hubristic and egomanical nature is poison for almost any organisation he was or is involved with; RESPECT is a good example and his bedfellows in Workers Party and the way he operates severeley diminish electorial success form whichever political platform or persuasion thay come from!
100% agree!Thanks for the reply.
You mention taking him to a tribunal. The thing is, pretty much like boris johnson, he doesn't fit into those rational processes and can rarely be skewered by them. And that's my problem with stwc, respect and others who wanted to run with his, yuk, 'star quality'. Everyone has always known he's an obnoxious shit, tailoring his views to meet his audience, but with a default of cosying up to monsters. And then there's the 'poor sexual etiquette', the chiselling and a thousand other shitty bits of behaviour. Even if there's a 50, 60, 70% overlap between his politics and your own, you should keep clear of the scummy mountebank.
'You' being the stwc and others, not you personally.
The article I mention is now up here:Also, huh: IGD put up a piece strongly arguing for a strict NWBCW line (from a somewhat insurrectionist standpoint, as you might expect). I didn't agree with it but thought it was interesting and was going to share it here when I got a chance, but I now see it's been taken down. Huh.
“If leftists continue to blame NATO for the Russian invasion, they only show that they have not grasped the changed situation,” says Taras Bilous. The editor of the left-wing Ukrainian magazine Commons wrote a letter to the left in the West shortly after the war began. In it, he criticized the fact that the people in the Eastern European states and their political ideas, but also Putin’s aggressive imperialism, do not seem to exist for the left in the West, which is fixated on NATO. Taras Bilous has stayed in Kyiv and joined an anarchist group that organizes aid activities and builds its own defense unit. In this interview, he talks about how the war has changed his political perspective, what possible developments he sees, and what the left in the West needs to rethink. The interview took place on March 8, Oksana Dutchak translated. Oksana Dutchak is a sociologist and researcher in the fields of labor issues and gender inequality and also an editor at Commons. She has left Kyiv and is currently in western Ukraine.
The article I mention is now up here:
No War But Class War: Against State Nationalism and Inter-Imperialist War in Ukraine – Abolition Media
abolitionmedia.noblogs.org
It's worth a read, a fairly well-argued and thoughtful setting out of a particular line. I also think it's deeply wrong, infuriatingly so in some places.
Some comments on it in this thread.
We can oppose a Russian victory while finding antifascist value in a Ukrainian defeat
Wow what fucking spanners flicked to the end of that post and saw this
Yes, that is among the parts I would class as being a bit infuriating.Wow what fucking spanners flicked to the end of that post and saw this