Workers' Girder! Getcher Workers Girder!

[The39thStep]

 

[The39thStep]

 

[The39thStep]

 

[The39thStep]

 

[The39thStep]

 

[Brixton Hatter]

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Heaven 17 - Let's All Make A Bomb

 

[weepiper]

Because if it's not Love
Then it's the bomb, the bomb, the bomb,
the bomb, the bomb, the bomb, the bomb
That will bring us together

 

[ViolentPanda]

Peasantry pedantry!

I'm a poet, not a historian.

A McGonagallist, it seems.

 

[barney_pig]

With the exception of combabe morrissey, it is noticeable that it is the people's music, funk, which most successfully articulates the yearning of the common people for proletarian Armageddon.
All that jazz shit is just so much petit bourgeois wank.

 

[butchersapron]

But, in the final year of that war,
two big bangs settled the score,
Against Japan, who'd joined the fight,
the rising sun didn't look so bright.
Since that day it's been stalemate,
everyone's scared to obliterate.

Time to end the fear.

 

[Athos]

A McGonagallist, it seems.

McGonagal's poems were like Les Dawson on the piano.

 

[frogwoman]

http://sniff.numachi.com/pages/tiFOREJOB;ttREDFLAG.html

 

[Idris2002]

 

[Idris2002]

 

[butchersapron]

Under 12s: People keep trying to revolutionise my soul - that's the actual lyric

 

[stuff_it]

Comrades - I have found an alternative fuel source for the workers bomb!

 

[Nigel Irritable]

How did I miss the lefty journalist privilege top trumps game?

Amazing work.

 

[DotCommunist]

been reading CWO's 'Revolutionary Perspectives' this morning, mainly solid but the piece on the olympics was hilarious, like a girder article with the sanity dial turned slightly more towards 'sane'

'While we don't wish to denigrate individual atheletes (how many of them were chemically assisted' and so on

'London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony was at times reminiscent of Hitlers Nuremburg rallies'

LOL

 

[butchersapron]

Whilst it's not a great article, that last point that you've picked on is actually quite sensible.The point was about the historical derivation of large scale modern ceremony from the 1936 Olympics and other nazi spectacles onwards (it missed the fact that these spectates were industrial, mirroring the most advanced part of the productive processes and organisation at that time, whilst Boyle's mirrors digital production) - it wasn't saying that the 2012 games was any sort of equivalent of Nuremberg!

If the London 2012 Olympic opening ceremony was at times reminiscent of Hitler’s Nuremberg rallies, perhaps it was because much modern Olympic imagery originates from the 1936 Berlin Olympics which were staged as a showpiece for the Third Reich. It was for these games that the Olympic torch relay was first invented, with a succession of ‘Aryan’ looking athletes carrying the flame from the ruins of the Temple of Hera in Athens all the way to Berlin. And it was at the Berlin games, if not before, that it became clear that the main purpose of the Olympics, particularly for the host nation is national prestige rather than sport.

 

[articul8]

Ok, but did the Olympics opening ceremony last year really remind people of the Nuremberg rally?

 

[DotCommunist]

Whilst it's not a great article, that last point that you've picked on is actually quite sensible.The point was about the historical derivation of large scale modern ceremony from the 1936 Olympics and other nazi spectacles onwards (it missed the fact that these spectates were industrial, mirroring the most advanced part of the productive processes and organisation at that time, whilst Boyle's mirrors digital production) - it wasn't saying that the 2012 games was any sort of equivalent of Nuremberg!

the best point in the article to my mind was Boyle's shot of the kids in a NHS hospital at a time when the NHS is being sold off. That and te bit about how it was working peoples houses asked to mount missiles (well, not asked) whereas big bisuness behemoths didn't have any such installations. It did make me chuckle as a whole, however righteous the points it was couched in a certain style. As I said to frogz the organ as a whole has the colloquial tone of the Morning Star but beefed up with references and depth.


AGM conclusions also raised a smile 'the meeting decided we needed to have another meeting'

yes there was more to it than that but that particular line made me chuckle.

 

[chilango]

Ok, but did the Olympics opening ceremony last year really remind people of the Nuremberg rally?

Well yes, clearly. The CWO and Butchers for starters. As I neither watched the opening ceremony or read Revolutionary Perspectives I can't comment further.

Seems a fair point to me though...

 

[Libertad]

Engaging with Sonia Poulton on Twatter now.

Sonia Poulton ‏@SoniaPoulton

Where is the opposition to the reprehensible & incompetent Cameron and Osborne? It can't be found amongst Byrne & Balls. New people needed!

 

[Libertad]

If she picks up the challenge then I'm going to be out of my depth pretty quickly as someone has stolen my funnies.

 

[BigTom]

Right, this one needs to be workshopped

PD statement on the new pope.. I have the images and idea but not the text...

New pope is the ghost of Posadas - the Holy Ghost in fact, he is/was the second coming. Nobody knew it at the time but clearly his prophetous words should have alerted us. Naturally he has to die before he can be a ghost but no resurrection like Jesus, and of course knowing the holy trinity we should have known that it wouldn't be "the son" that visited us a second time, but "the holy ghost". Our last meeting shall be with "God".
Posadist + Pope = Popadist. This is the name of the new faction.
The Bible is actually telling us to look for the communist space aliens - heaven = space; God is the representation of the aliens that will bring us communism.. Creating the kingdom of heaven on earth = revolution!

DotCommunist has raised the theory that Joseph was in fact a space alien, as immortalised by Chris De Burgh's song, A Space Man Came Travelling. Alongside that all prophets - Abraham, Noah, Mohammed, Buddha etc are space aliens (that intergalacticism!).

Ever wonder why the papal hat is shaped like a rocket? Now you know!

so I think this could be made into something more than the image (and the slogan on the image is not great, just a spacemarker really) but I can't do it.

 

[DotCommunist]

Technically Jospeh was not a space alien- joseph was still the human consort but the impregnator of mary was the space alien and this miracle birth was attributed to god.



Here for reference is Chris doing another tear jerker:

 

[DotCommunist]

Creating the kingdom of heaven on earth = revolution!

It's also worth remembering that protestant christianity did occasionally stray into utopian ideals of the kingdom of heaven on earth- a liberation theology if you will. Chartist hymn books. Leveller prayers. Before marx a significant amount of the brit working class expressed a desire for liberation through the organs of the church, just as the enslaved africans of america were later to find expression for their yearning to freedom, and the articulation of that need through stories of jewish subjugation under the pharoes.

ahem

 

[frogwoman]

i'm tempted to post my "purim - dress up for revolution!" pic on here but it's crap

 

[frogwoman]

here it is, I haven't added the PD logo coz i didn't know where to put it (and it's late now anyway!) but if somebody could do that that would be great. think it could probably do with a few more ghostly trots as well