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chilango said:
Okay..here we go here's my list of current lefty/anarchist groups in the UK. Some may be defunct, and I've not included localist groups or journals. let me know if I've missed any.

If anyone fancies helping putting up a blog with info on all these (a kinda lefty trainspotting encyclopedia) let me know.

Anarchist Federation
Alliance for Green Socialism
Alliance for Workers Liberty
Class War
Communist Corresponding Society
Communist Party of Britain
Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committe)
Communist Party of Britain-Marxist Leninist
Communist Party of Great Britain-Marxist Leninist
Communist Workers Organisation
Communist Action
Communist League (The Militant)
Communist League/Movement for a Socialist Future
Communist League of Great Britain
Counterfire
The Commune
International Leninist Workers Party /Economic and Philosophic Science Review
Green Anarchist
International Bolshevik Ttendency
International Communist Current
International Communist Party - Communist Left
International Communist Party - Internationalist Papers
International Communist Party / Socialist Equality Party
International Communist League (Fourth International) / Spartacist League
International Communist Tendency (ex IBRP)
International Socialist Group / Socialist Resistance
International Socialist Group – Bamberyite
International Socialist League
Independent Working Class Association
Industrial Workers of the World
Liberty and Solidarity
Marxist Party
Maoist Internationalist Movement
New Communist Party
Proletarian Democracy
Peace and Progress Party
Permanent Revolution
Revolutionary Communist Group
Revolutionary Democratic Group
Revolutionary Internationalist League
Revolutionary Internationalist Movement
Revolutionary Workers Party
Respect
RCPGB-ML
Socialist Action
Socialist Appeal
Socialist Fight
Socialist Labour Party
Socialist Workers Party
Socialist Party
SPGB - Socialist Standard
SPGB - World in Common
SPGB - Socialist Studies
Solidarity - Sheridanites
Solidarity - Solidarity paper
Socialist League
SolFed
TUSC
United Socialist Party
Workers Action
Workers Power
WRP (Newsline)
WRP (Workers Press) / Movement for Socialism / Reclaim the Future
WRP (WIRFI)
Workers Internationalist League
Workers Fight
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In case anyone misses this due to tedious "taking things seriously" posts...
 
We've briefly looked at which are the biggest...SWP or SP I would have thought. But the smallest? How many of these groups are literally one man bands?
 
chilango said:
We've briefly looked at which are the biggest...SWP or SP I would have thought. But the smallest? How many of these groups are literally one man bands?
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I don't think there are any literal one man bands at the moment. I don't know know whether it counted as a group but Revolution and Truth, a magazine published about 12 years ago, I'd guess, was just one bloke. He later got quite high in Respect. Whatever happened to him?

There have certainly been a few groups whose members could be counted one one hand. There was a Trotskyist Unity Group which united 2 people for a while. Then there was a three-man split from the Workers International League (one of the WRP splinters) which produced Workers Fight (not to be confused with Lutte Ouviere)
 
Okay groups whose membership is in single figures:

My guesses -

CWO
The Commune
GA
ILWP
ICP - CL
ICP- IP
ICT
Marxist Party
RWP
Socialist Fight
 
chilango said:
Okay groups whose membership is in single figures:

My guesses -

CWO
The Commune
GA
ILWP
ICP - CL
ICP- IP
ICT
Marxist Party
RWP
Socialist Fight
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According to wiki, the Marxist Party dissolved itself in 2004. The Redgraves then founded the Peace and Progress Party, which may still exist but doesn't consider itself marxist afaik. The ILWP became the Economic and Philosophic Science Review

Does anyone remember the story of James Paris, an identity of Detroit-based Martin Schraeder (sp?)? He ran a whole fake international tendency as a sort of hobby for a while. There was a British affiliate listed - the Marxist Workers' Group who allegedly operated in West Yorkshire. It wasn't clear if they were real or just one person/group trying to con another conman. Did anyone ever meet them in the real world?
 
chilango said:
I remember once, years ago, as a po-faced anarchist, refusing to take part in a a pagan thing at an Eco protest cos it was "religion".
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would it have been okay if they'd refused to take part because it was a steaming crock of shit of an idea? (which i'm guessing anything 'pagan' would be)
 
Just talking about the goings on of mad sects. One of my best memories in that respect is a Socialist Party member head locking another member of my branch at a NSSN conference. The following NSSN conference didn't live up to those heights but was still a fairly amusing/depressing circus with the Socialist Party on one hand and the SWP and assorted others on the other arguing why some minor difference meant we couldn't have joint anti-cuts organisations.

It's always fairly amusing as well to see SWP, Socialist Party or whoever else try to rally their little unit on marches with strident and shrill shouts through the mega phone as if they are leading a massive workers movement.

An SWP organisier getting caught at our local anti-cuts group throwing the Coalition of Resistance leaflets in the bin was also quite amusing. He went in to a rage when someone saw him doing it and stormed out.
 
chilango said:
Okay..here we go here's my list of current lefty/anarchist groups in the UK. Some may be defunct, and I've not included localist groups or journals. let me know if I've missed any.

If anyone fancies helping putting up a blog with info on all these (a kinda lefty trainspotting encyclopedia) let me know.
(...)
Socialist Action
Socialist Appeal
Socialist Fight
Socialist Labour Party
Socialist Workers Party
Socialist Party
SPGB - Socialist Standard
SPGB - World in Common
SPGB - Socialist Studies
Solidarity - Sheridanites
Solidarity - Solidarity paper
Socialist League
SolFed
TUSC
United Socialist Party
Workers Action
Workers Power
WRP (Newsline)
WRP (Workers Press) / Movement for Socialism / Reclaim the Future
WRP (WIRFI)
Workers Internationalist League
Workers Fight
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If you are going to turn this into a serious project you'll need to correct the entry "SPGB - World in Common". Although they obviously came out of the SPGB they are a group in their own right, so would need to be recorded simply as "World in Common".
 
belboid said:
would it have been okay if they'd refused to take part because it was a steaming crock of shit of an idea? (which i'm guessing anything 'pagan' would be)
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It looked more fun than standing around taking myself too seriously ended up being...
 
i dont think theres anything wrong with megaphones on demos because you can sometimes steal them and shout something silly. what i don't like is megaphones on stalls in the high street where people (usually swp) start using them and all the shoppers start running away from you :mad:
 
An SWP organisier getting caught at our local anti-cuts group throwing the Coalition of Resistance leaflets in the bin was also quite amusing. He went in to a rage when someone saw him doing it and stormed out.
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wtf why? :D
 
Is there a far left group name generator somewhere? Surely they're going to run out of choices soon?

[Ideological Label] + [angry adjective] = new Trot group name

Proletarian Anger
Workers Fist
Socialist Rage
Social-Democratic Annoyance
 
mk12 said:
Is there a far left group name generator somewhere? Surely they're going to run out of choices soon?

[Ideological Label] + [angry adjective] = new Trot group name

Proletarian Anger
Workers Fist
Socialist Rage
Social-Democratic Annoyance
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You think Trot names are bad?

Anarchists are worse...

Autonmous Class War
The Love and Rage Anarchist Federation
The Wildfire Collective
Anarchy: A journal of desire armed
Days of Rage Collective
Bring the Ruckus
Space Hijackers
The Wombles
Crimethinc
Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei
Thieves in Black
Lie Wild or Die!
etc. etc.

Most sound like shit punk bands
 
Jean-Luc said:
If you are going to turn this into a serious project you'll need to correct the entry "SPGB - World in Common". Although they obviously came out of the SPGB they are a group in their own right, so would need to be recorded simply as "World in Common".
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They've got a separate listing already!

I can remove the SPGB bit from the front though...
 
Updated...

chilango said:
Anarchist Federation
Alliance for Green Socialism
Alliance for Workers Liberty
Autonmous Class War
Class War
Communist Corresponding Society
Communist Party of Britain
Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committe)
Communist Party of Britain-Marxist Leninist
Communist Party of Great Britain-Marxist Leninist
Communist Workers Organisation
Communist Action
Communist League (The Militant)
Communist League/Movement for a Socialist Future
Communist League of Great Britain
Counterfire
The Commune
Economic and Philosophic Science Review (International Leninist Workers Party )
Green Anarchist
International Bolshevik Tendency
International Communist Current
International Communist Party - Communist Left
International Communist Party - Internationalist Papers
International Communist Party / Socialist Equality Party
International Communist League (Fourth International) / Spartacist League
International Communist Tendency (ex IBRP)
International Socialist Group / Socialist Resistance
International Socialist Group – Bamberyite
International Socialist League
Independent Working Class Association
Industrial Workers of the World
Liberty and Solidarity
Maoist Internationalist Movement
New Communist Party
Proletarian Democracy
Peace and Progress Party
Permanent Revolution
Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist)
Revolutionary Communist Group
Revolutionary Democratic Group
Revolutionary Internationalist League
Revolutionary Internationalist Movement
Revolutionary Workers Party
Respect
RCPGB-ML
Socialist Action
Socialist Appeal
Socialist Fight
Socialist Labour Party
Socialist Workers Party
Socialist Party
SPGB - Socialist Standard
SPGB - Socialist Studies
Solidarity - Sheridanites
Solidarity - Solidarity paper
Socialist League
SolFed
TUSC
United Socialist Party
Workers Action
Workers Power
WRP (Newsline)
WRP (Workers Press) / Movement for Socialism / Reclaim the Future
WRP (WIRFI)
Workers Internationalist League
Workers Fight
World in Common
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Geoff Collier said:
I don't think there are any literal one man bands at the moment. I don't know know whether it counted as a group but Revolution and Truth, a magazine published about 12 years ago, I'd guess, was just one bloke. He later got quite high in Respect. Whatever happened to him?

There have certainly been a few groups whose members could be counted one one hand. There was a Trotskyist Unity Group which united 2 people for a while. Then there was a three-man split from the Workers International League (one of the WRP splinters) which produced Workers Fight (not to be confused with Lutte Ouviere)
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United by a love of Trotsky and a shared first name; TUG otherwise know as 'the Phils'.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice
 
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