Who the f*ck are Socialist Appeal?

[hitmouse]

By sticking loads of hammers and sickles and oldschool socialist realism on their branding, that's how. The Socialist Party could never match this level of pictures of men hitting things with hammers:

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Once the Proletariat finally realise what a great bloke Lenin was they'll be away. Bound to happen any time now.

 

[hitmouse]

That issue 1 of the Communist looks amazing, I dunno if there's something tucked away in the obscured bottom right corner, but it certainly looks a lot like they've managed to devote the entire front page of their newspaper to things from over a century ago?

 

[steeplejack]

A great front cover from 100 years ago going big on someone who died in 1924. Top work tbf. I'd be tempted to buy it but if you contact them you'll be spammed for the rest of your life for membership / begging contributions/ building the party through paper sales/ malodorous and dusty university holiday time seminars on Lenin's April Thesis and its contemporary resonance.

 

[nastyned]

By sticking loads of hammers and sickles and oldschool socialist realism on their branding, that's how. The Socialist Party could never match this level of pictures of men hitting things with hammers:
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Whoa! Lots of men hitting things with hammers!

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

Whoa! Lots of men hitting things with hammers!

I'm sickle of that sort of thing.

 

[hitmouse]

Whoa! Lots of men hitting things with hammers!

It's a good thing communists don't believe in intellectual property, otherwise they'd end up with the ICC suing them for copyright infringement.

 

[nastyned]

It's a good thing communists don't believe in intellectual property, otherwise they'd end up with the ICC suing them for copyright infringement.

I expect a long and tedious denunciation in the next issue of World Revolution.

 

[Flavour]

I wonder what new things Lenin has to say

 

[YouSir]

To be fair to them they do a great job of showing Communist efficiency, must be smashing their yearly sticker production targets going by the amount of them I see around the place.

 

[Dom Traynor]

I'm sickle of that sort of thing.

Its enough to give you the trots

 

[Dom Traynor]

That newspaper is a work of genius. I'm sure even at my most deluded I wouldn't have thought something like that would be of interest outside of any little in-group.

 

[hitmouse]

Just looked at it again and I'd missed this bit before:

Fuck me, inflation really is getting out of control.

 

[Dom Traynor]

Just looked at it again and I'd missed this bit before:
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Fuck me, inflation really is getting out of control.

Imagine paying for that shit

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Imagine paying for that shit

Normal practice is to try to sell for hours, fail to sell many/any, end up giving them away and then the seller pays the party for the pleasure of hawking them for the party. Ah, the good days!

 

[Fedayn]

It's a worldwide campaign. There's a thread on the Leftist Trainspotters group on Facebook where people have posted pics of the same poster - in various languages - as far apart as Sao Paolo , Bologna, Tamworth and one I took which was next to my son's High School in Brooklyn.

Bit of a weird place in Brooklyn to have a flyposting campaign about 'Communism'. There's a house five minutes round the corner that's currently on the market for 8.75 million dollars.

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The same poster is outside my work on Port Dundas Road in Glasgow. There is an active group of YCL in Glasgow mind.

 

[GroovySunday]

Coz they're the most middle class loony leftie cunts going

I wonder how much they've raised?

I meant "cult" ofcourse

 

[ska invita]

Lol
Clearly the RCP have had a meeting

 

[The39thStep]

The 1917 reenactment society in full swing

 

[hitmouse]

Workers' Party of Britain must be shaking in their flat caps and fedoras at this bold upping of the lefty hat ante.

 

[The39thStep]

Workers' Party of Britain must be shaking in their flat caps and fedoras at this bold upping of the lefty hat ante.

Bit of a retro Paul Maon look

 

[DaveCinzano]

HAT'S ENTERTAINMENT

 

[DaveCinzano]

NOW HAT'S WHAT I CALL REVOLUTIONARY SOCIALISM VOLUME 73

 

[hitmouse]

Bit of a cheap dig, but it tickled me anyway: was in town this morning, went over to say hi to the outsourced Northern Rail/Carlisle Support Services staff striking at the train station, walked past a load of flashy new RCP flyposters... did not spot any actual RCP members showing up to support striking workers.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Bit of a cheap dig, but it tickled me anyway: was in town this morning, went over to say hi to the outsourced Northern Rail/Carlisle Support Services staff striking at the train station, walked past a load of flashy new RCP flyposters... did not spot any actual RCP members showing up to support striking workers.

It's the modern dialectic, dude

YOU DO NOT SPOT RCP MEMBERS;
RCP MEMBERS SPOT YOU

 

[hitmouse]

On a trainspotting note, not got round to taking a photo yet, but I noticed in town the other day that the official CP seem to have produced a new line of "join the CPB" stickers that a cynic might suspect were designed specifically for the purpose of sticking on the bottom of SA/RCP "are you a communist?" stickers.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Colleague of mine is fairly active with Socialist Appeal.

Initially I thought the "Are you a Communist?" campaign was more along the lines of connecting people's already held beliefs with Communist principles, to demonstrate that there's more common ground than many might think.

'pparently not, though

 

[hitmouse]

On a trainspotting note, not got round to taking a photo yet, but I noticed in town the other day that the official CP seem to have produced a new line of "join the CPB" stickers that a cynic might suspect were designed specifically for the purpose of sticking on the bottom of SA/RCP "are you a communist?" stickers.

As promised, here's the lamppost-based sectariana content I'm sure you've all been eagerly awaiting:

 

[steeplejack]

It's effective, too, the QR code takes you straight to the CPB website.

Needless to say I have enthusiastically paid £6 to be a candidate member and am enthusiastically awaiting my interview with an 82 year old man from the local brach 200 miles away, who will subsequently reject my application on the basis of an error-strewn and potentially Bonapartist reading of The 18th Brumaire.

 

[ska invita]

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