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BigTom said:
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I reckon the collective can do better than the individual with the "names" on the poster... I actually really like the design of the original poster, I don't know whether to try to mimic it exactly but i couldn't work out in Photoshop CS6 to do the speckly thing they've done, I'm sure that used to be a standard brush but I can't find it. I'm not sure whether to make it even more different in terms of colour or even design and just keep the parodied title. I'm sure this must have been done before, the music festival type ones have been around for many years.
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that is amazing
 
Bound to upset everyone but here we go - if it is too offensive I'll remove it.

Intersectionalism in Syria-Lebanon.
A Proletarian Democracy Conference Special Afternoon (and Evening and Through the Night) Session

One country or two? Or is it seven separate states rolled into a single "Eurocentric left" conspiracy? Are Fuad Siniora and Basher Al-Assad people of colour? Should the global black solidarity movement be stronger? Is Nasrallah part of it? Is Tammam Salam? Was Colonel Gaddafi's support for Assad the right thing? Are two separate Syrias better for the black solidarity movement? Should the Druze people have their own section within our Middle East people of colour section?
Why is it OK for Beyonce to get praise in celebrity magazines that's a step forward as a worthy figure of black feminism, but when Asma Assad is praised the same old white knives come out?
Find out which working-class really won the Lebanese civil war. Are Edgware Road Lebanese really supporting other people of colour if they don't give a crap about all that? First World privilege Matters. Hear both sides on how or whether white people should be allowed in NUS Liberation Conferences. Which oppressions intersect when a male war pension-drawing partially disabled working-class peasant origin Druze gives a lift to a female Christian non-Catholic lower-middle-class origin housewife (but married to an upper-middle-class not-religious Sunni shop owner) and he calls her clothes (not her) beautiful? Hezbollah don't do strikebreaking, they do intersectional support for oppressed Shia transport workers when given the chance - find out how. Kurds in Syria: vectors of imperialism or anti-imperialist tinderboxes.
Why will the ISM organise groups to defend the Palestinians under attack from the IDF but not the Syrians under attack from Assad? Are Palestinians privileged when compared with Sunni Syrians. Should 'Victim of Israeli oppression' privilege be a registered axis of oppression?
If Qatar and the Gulf monarchies arm the rebels, why shouldn't Russia arm the Syrian armed forces? Should Tripoli in Lebanon be an intersectionalised zone monitored by the UN? Everyone calls for occupied Haifa to be returned great but when will the racist left learn that occupied Iskandarun needs to be to be returned to Syria?
Alawites? When they call themselves Muslims, why does it upset other Muslims - who is really right? Are Britain's census Jedis like Alawites but suffering from a crisis of masculinity which only the black Labour left wants to solve? Would Hafez, Zein and Karim Bashar Al-Assad be people of colour if they had been successful in leaving Syria for the west? Who first started using this people of colour thing outside the USA - was it the Lebanese Christians?
 
BigTom said:
Tariq Ali only managed second on the bill for the counterfire event... tony benn was even further down, but Tony is still top dog at the People's Resistance so it's all good ;) .
Either all fake or all real I reckon, but if they were going to be all real I'd have people like Malcolm Harris, Laurie Penny, Molly, Ellie Mae, Sunny Hundal etc. and only Owen and Laurie cut across the two really, it'd want to be spoofing a different event/poster for that.
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We should have Malcolm Harris doing a Hakim Bey style pro-nonce talk IMO
 
Monetize your hotness: Ticket price reductions available for Proletarian Democracy booth babes!
 
Anyone else following @progresstips ?

ProgressTips ‏@ProgressTips
5h​
State that @Unite4Len doesn't represent the views of working class people, but that Baron Mandleson of Foy does.

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ProgressTips ‏@ProgressTips
7h​
Spend half the day worrying about the Red Peril that is @OwenJones84 and the other half convincing yourself how irrelevant he is.

ProgressTips ‏@ProgressTips
21h​
Advocate the adoption of a 'economically credible' fiscal programme comprising entirely of neoliberal policies that failed in 2008.

:D
 
I suppose the bitter irony is that if any of the established trot groupings in this country put a zillionth of the energy, imagination and passion that people have put into this pisstake, then it wouldn't even exist anyway.
 
Streathamite said:
I suppose the bitter irony is that if any of the established trot groupings in this country put a zillionth of the energy, imagination and passion that people have put into this pisstake, then it wouldn't even exist anyway.
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But that would leave them lacking the time and energy for their real principle occupation of fighting each other.
 
Streathamite said:
I suppose the bitter irony is that if any of the established trot groupings in this country put a zillionth of the energy, imagination and passion that people have put into this pisstake, then it wouldn't even exist anyway.
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Trots are not short on energy or passion. They have a lot of imagination too - or perhaps delusion would be a better word. They imagine their sects big, powerful and leading the workers of the world.
 
equationgirl said:
That's a lovely looking camera :)
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You can still find them on Ebay. They kind of developed from a between-the-wars Soviet copy of the Leica II (known as the FED 1), and mutated from there. Excellent cameras in their own right, and the optics were all made on Zeiss plant taken from Germany after The Great Patriotic War as reparations, to Zeiss designs, so they're generally cracking too!

As you may have guessed, I own several FED cameras (and Zorki cameras too, tbh). :D
 
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