What do you mean by "why the fuck?" Do you mean "why did they join this group, and why did they split from it"? They joined this group as they thought it could change the world, like the Bolsheviks did. They split because they became convinced that the parent group was deviating from the correct path.
The article about the continuity of Spartacism. All those years of pushing a particular line, and then it just being junked, just like that.
The LFI leaders stubbornly refuse to admit—at least publicly—that there was anything fundamentally wrong in the organization prior to their own exit and thus cannot account for earlier examples of the SL's degeneration (or, indeed, the deep bureaucratism of their own purge).
is that a typo or a misreading?
Misreading probably.
I didn't read the article. I just assumed TUSC was a different acronym for the TUC. Which it obviously isn't.
I have no idea.
Think they're one of the few groups who've officially dissolved and then un-dissolved again, they formally disbanded in order to all join Labour in 2015 and then re-banded in 2021.
That was their heyday , the pre revolutionary situation , workers defence squads , the International Brigade for Iraq and the Jodi Marsh situation . There was also that member of theirs on here who got arrested for bringing drugs on some demo .
Don't forget the time I saw Cockers eating cold rice pudding out of a can after I tried to run him over with a golf cart. True story.
Dressed as a pirate
I had actually forgotten about that bit but absolutely true
When I heard his views, I trembled for him. He approved of us, but for subtle reasons . . .
