Who the f*ck are Socialist Appeal?

[WhyLikeThis]

I’ve had very posh students trying to palm off their weird and shit rag off on me in town.

What flavour of authoritarian communist are they pretending to be?

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

We saw a bunch of Socialist Appeal students selling magazines with Marx and Lenin's faces on in Lancaster while on holiday recently. 'Unimpressed' would be to overstate the public reaction.

 

[gawkrodger]

IMT - Trot split from Millitant

 

[Bingoman]

Never heard of them

 

[Sue]

Never heard of them

This, THIS is why we can't have nice things.

 

[WhyLikeThis]

Never heard of them

Lucky you.

 

[mx wcfc]

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I’ve had very posh students trying to palm off their weird and shit rag off on me in town.

What flavour of authoritarian communist are they pretending to be?

No idea. I bought a paper off them once outside Reading station, out of sympathy (having sold Socilaist Worker myself many years ago)

didn't read it.

 

[RD2003]

I’ve had very posh students trying to palm off their weird and shit rag off on me in town.

What flavour of authoritarian communist are they pretending to be?

They're people floundering about politically, just like anybody on here.

 

[Bingoman]

Lucky you.

just looked them up and they have been going since the 90s, they just may of past me by

 

[Gramsci]

Is this thread due to my post on Gaza thread?

Post in thread 'Hamas/Israel conflict general thread' Hamas/Israel conflict general thread

Im not a Trot but to my mind seeing young people take an interest in politics and get out there and do something is a good thing. Given the understandable general cynicism of politics in general I come across.

To dismiss them as "posh students" is patronising.

 

[WhyLikeThis]

To dismiss them as "posh students" is patronising.

They really were. I’m no Nostradamus but if I look into my crystal ball I can’t see them keeping that up long.

 

[RD2003]

They really were. I’m no Nostradamus but if I look into my crystal ball I can’t see them keeping that up long.

What's new about that? There has never been a shortage of posh-sounding students involved in the radical left. Some stay, many don't.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

Sounds like a lads mag for communists

 

[Gramsci]

oh well this thread should go in the bin. Im putting it on ignore

 

[Rob Ray]

Previous thread with good summary from hitmouse here.

 

[Serge Forward]

They're basically the members of old Militant and later recruits who didn't get expelled from the Labour Party and were never part of the Socialist Party (SPEW). I went to one of their meetings once by mistake, not knowing who they were, and I was suddenly transported back to 1981. Very strange.

 

[RD2003]

They're basically the members of old Militant and later recruits who didn't get expelled from the Labour Party and were never part of the Socialist Party (SPEW). I went to one of their meetings once by mistake, not knowing who they were, and I was suddenly transported back to 1981. Very strange.

A few years ago, probably just before the pandemic, they were selling papers outside the shops round here. The young woman I spoke to when she tried to sell me one was probably a student, but not particularly posh. She seemed merely lower middle class like most of them. I was actually quite surprised that a Trot group that wasn't the SWP could still attract people so young.

I didn't buy a paper, telling her that I knew of old exactly what it would say. I walked off feeling slightly smug and 'seen-it-all-before,' but shortly afterwards a bit of a shit.

 

[A380]

Why don’t young people join paper selling parties?

 

[RD2003]

Why don’t young people join paper selling parties?

Some clearly still do.

 

[petee]

Why don’t young people join paper selling parties?

i give up. why don’t young people join paper selling parties?

 

[WhyLikeThis]

oh well this thread should go in the bin. Im putting it on ignore

It wasn’t a dig! I was genuinely unaware of who this lot were.

 

[WhyLikeThis]

Sounds like a lads mag for communists

Just without the gravitas.

 

[PTK]

It wasn’t a dig! I was genuinely unaware of who this lot were.

They were in the Labour Party, but a while ago ol' Starver had 'em banned.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

They really were. I’m no Nostradamus but if I look into my crystal ball I can’t see them keeping that up long.

Oh, Jeremy Corbyn?

 

[WhyLikeThis]

They were in the Labour Party, but a while ago ol' Starver had 'em banned.

I’m starting to warm to them!

 

[ska invita]

I think it's SA who have been putting up Are You A Communist Then Organise (Iirc) large posters and stickers which I've seen all over London and also several smaller towns in the south east.... As someone who appreciates flyposting it's the best effort I've seen from any left group in years

 

[JimW]

New fragrance from Garnier, dab a bit behind your ears and on your wrists and it brings all the cadres to the yard.

 

[Knotted]

Ted Grant's split from the Militant Tendancy. Maintained Labour entrism and denounced everyone else as sectarians. Young recruits were educated to carry the vendettas of a bitter old man.They thought the workers would come flooding to them because Labour Party. Run by Alan Woods after Grant's death and went in a really quite dubious pro Russian direction. Were big on Venezuela solidarity. Don't know what they're up to now. Horrible organisation.

 

[chilango]

I think it's SA who have been putting up Are You A Communist Then Organise (Iirc) large posters and stickers which I've seen all over London and also several smaller towns in the south east.... As someone who appreciates flyposting it's the best effort I've seen from any left group in years

Yep. Seen these stickers/posters all over the place. Must have cost a fortune. Wonder if they got a bequest?

(they were also paper selling on Reading high street a few weeks back. Couple of young lads)

 

[tim]

They're people floundering about politically, just like anybody on here.

Stop floundering and take a decisive decision to drown. Or go down the Conservative Club and get pissed.