Workers' Girder! Getcher Workers Girder!

[raknor]

Sorry I had to nick that & post it on twitter!! Would have credited you but doesn't look like you're on it

 

[butchersapron]

We're getting closer

Shortly after the last time I booted him, 'Harry' set up a short-lived Weekly Worker spoof blog by the name of Sectarian Worker. It was very funny and brilliantly lampooned the pomposity of toy town bolshevism (very much like today's Proletarian Democracy, in fact)

 

[Red Storm]

We're getting closer

Brilliant

 

[Red Storm]

I reckon Proletarian Democracy could get a letter published in the Weekly Worker

 

[frogwoman]

Sorry I had to nick that & post it on twitter!! Would have credited you but doesn't look like you're on it

i am on it, nicked itr from someone off facebook tho

 

[rekil]

The LRB used our NUS slogan but didn't give us a mention. Boo.

Notwithstanding puerile objections, the turnip stuff might go up soon once it's been worked on in the forge and fashioned into something leaner than the furious 1500 words people put up, but I'm loath to see sihhi's piece get pushed down and would also like to use it for the next Girder.

 

[rekil]

ProletarianDemocracy ‏@ProletarianDem
Proletarian Democracy urges all communists/socialists/misc so-called leftists to set petty sectarianism aside and protest against #spoty


Jacqueline Moon ‏@jaxmoon75
@ProletarianDem shut up. This is to honor people who've achieved something amazing as opposed to sitting on their asses, shouting at the tv.

 

[frogwoman]

 

[rekil]

ProletarianDemocracy ‏@ProletarianDem
#spoty Down with the Wigginsian personality cult! Professional Cycling Is Tyre-anny!

 

[JimW]

"Stop taking the working class for a ride"?

 

[ViolentPanda]

ProletarianDemocracy ‏@ProletarianDem
#spoty Down with the Wigginsian personality cult! Professional Cycling Is Tyre-anny!

A fair comment! Surely nowadays sideburns are affectations of the male bourgeoisie, rather than the utilitarian face-warmers of yesteryear?

 

[ViolentPanda]

"Stop taking the working class for a ride"?

Wiggins embodies the Tebbitist imperative to "get on your bike", knowing full well that for the majority, there is no "gold medal" at the end of the cycle path.

 

[BigTom]

Is there any official PD guide to which sports are communis and which are communisn't? I would have regarded bicycles as a working class vehicle, along with standard cars (although the latter less so as oil gets more expensive). However, there is a definite petit / bourgeuois aspect to cycling, not just the tebbist element but also the holier than thou middle class "environmentalists" who drive their chelsea tractor to the countryside with their bikes on the roof in order to cycle around some nice safe country paths.

 

[rekil]

As Brax - proletarian hero from Home And Away - has shown, cage-fighting is communIS.

 

[rekil]

Wiggins embodies the Tebbitist imperative to "get on your bike", knowing full well that for the majority, there is no "gold medal" at the end of the cycle path.

Nice. It had to be chopped a bit to make it fit.

#spoty Wiggins embodies the Tebbitist "get on your bike" diktat. But no "gold medal" at the end of the cycle path for the majority world!

 

[Louis MacNeice]

Is there any official PD guide to which sports are communist and which are communisnt?

Amateur rugby league and fell running relays.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[Hocus Eye.]

A communist cycle earlier:

It is all about the collective effort not the lone performer.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Is there any official PD guide to which sports are communist and which are communisnt? I would have regarded bicycles as a working class vehicle, along with standard cars (although the latter less so as oil gets more expensive). However, there is a definite petit / bourgeuois aspect to cycling, not just the tebbist element but also the holier than thou middle class "environmentalists" who drive their chelsea tractor to the countryside with their bikes on the roof in order to cycle around some nice safe country paths.

As you say, bicycles are by and large a working class vehicle, with the emphasis on "working". Bicycling workers - communis. Leisure cyclists - communisn't.

 

[JimW]

Of course, after the revolution we'll all travel by flying saucer, thanks to our intergalactic comrades.

 

[weepiper]

the workers' bike.

 

[JimW]

With, obviously, a member of the PD party vanguard to do the steering (committee).

 

[rekil]

Of course, after the revolution we'll all travel by flying saucer, thanks to our intergalactic comrades.

Naturally, the idea that our socialist alien supercomrades indulge in any kind of competitive sport is too absurd to contemplate.

 

[JimW]

Perhaps we could allow competitive stripping and re-assemblage of worker's bomb detonators between different communes as a way of encouraging fraternal Stakhanovism, though even that is indeed fraught.

 

[Hocus Eye.]

FAO Weepiper. This is your bike in action. Skip through to the 40 second mark. You might want to kill the sound track.

 

[weepiper]

FAO Weepiper. This is your bike in action. Skip through to the 40 second mark.

I know, I've actually seen them a couple of times foreign bike hire places seem to have them quite a lot

 

[Brixton Hatter]

I know, I've actually seen them a couple of times foreign bike hire places seem to have them quite a lot

There's one up in London Bridge which is even bigger than that - sort of like the back of a flatbed truck with 8 places for people to pedal. Normally seems to be filled with groups of pissed up lads drinking cans and struggling with the steering

 

[frogwoman]

Condemn police aggression!

Proletarian Democracy is horrified to learn of the attack on an innocent cow by the brutal forces of the state. Such fascist, imperialist aggression by the Nazi-esque police force of Britain will not go uncondemned and we call for Workers' Defence Squads to defend all cows, wherever they are. Why should our bovine brothers be killed simply for trying to escape from the dinner plate, in a tragedy reminiscent of what the working class across Europe fought to rid ourselves of 70 years ago? We say enough is enough!

Solidarity with all cows in the face of police aggression!
Workers' Defence Squads to defend herds of cows from fascist attack!
No Platform for abbatoir workers and butchers!

 

[rekil]

Socialist pantomime season is upon us so perhaps PD's Pantokommando could work this bovicidal outrage into this year's production.

 

[DotCommunist]

four stomachs working as one.

 

[frogwoman]

Workers' consciousness is making inroads amongst the feline community! My cat Denver today played with a money pot and knocked several coins out of it, showing the growing disdain among feline members of the class for the monetary system and the incipient demand for Socialism. Proletarian Democracy must build among the cat community, and combat the false ideas which are so common among this group, such as that walking across keyboards and playing with string represent a form of class struggle, which they do not, merely representing a distraction from the exploitation they face under capitalism.