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ooh, whats the full name for the.... Fenland Workers party is it?

Deffo a one man band. Or even a slightly less than one man...
 
..be a good name for it's publication.

"Stonewashed" quarterly organ of Retro - the revolutionary organisation of the middle-aged.
 
Delroy Booth said:
I also remember being at an anti-fascist meeting in Nottingham, at a community centre near The Meadows estate, not long after the whole Bolton EDL demo fiasco that mortally wounded the UAF, discussing what to do next. It was the usual lefty stuff, I think called by the local trades council, with vegan food and various working groups before a meeting at the end to sum it all up. There was a few lefty groups there, Labour left people, SWP and SP, a few trades union types and a few unaffiliated. And Comrade Lenin from the IBT was there, with a female member who was wearing those weird fox-hunting horsey pants that rich people (and occasionally Chris Eubank) wear. I think she was trying to look like Rosa Luxembourg as a counter-point to his Lenin look.

A draft statement was decided upon and was about to be voted on, I can't remember the details, but just before this formality took place Mr Lenin raised a point of order, and demanded a debate on whether or not the EDL could be accurately described as fascist or not. This "Point of order" was a 15 minute rant about the technicalities of whether the EDL are traditionally fascist organisation, or crypto-fascist etc. After a very long-winded speech, with numerous quotes from Trotsky, he set out his idea that the EDL were "a deformed cryto-fascist off-shoot of the BNP" and proposed that any future propaganda should refer to them as such and not as simply fascists.

There were lots of groans about this, I got the feeling it wasn't the first time Comrade Lenin had been here and done this very same thing. I spoke next, and in my normal understated way said that the EDL at the time hadn't even made any coherent political demands, or shown any degree of interest in politics beyond beating up asian people, and so going to any sort of lengths to categorize them political was a waste of time. And I also mentioned that even if they were "cryto-fascists" or whatever, what practical difference does that make towards our opposition to them? I got a rapterous round of applaus for that and a lot of dirty looks off Comrade Lenin afterwards. Infact he wouldn't even shake my hand after the meeting was over when I approached him, so somewhere in IBT HQ I have a feeling my name is on a list of "counter-revolutionary social democrats" or something.
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Come the revolution it will be people like him, ambitious middle-manager civil servants, and gangsters who will rise to the top.
 
mastermind might be putting it a bit strong. I believe he is trying to transmit the entirety of Capital via morse code playing subtly in the background of pumping techno
 
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