Workers Power have split

[TremulousTetra]

It's beyond a fucking joke I mean what the fuck are they playing at?

I was halfway through writing something, I know butchers is keen to see it, where I collectively list every single socialist organization in britain. From the IBT to the CPGB-ML and so on and so on. Just so I could see how many people were in them all. I didn't get through it because it's such a soul-crushing experience that I couldn't bring myself to finish it off. However, I can say with a degree of certaintly, there are well over 10,000 people in this country who are members of a left-wing sect or group, when you add them all together. And for those 10,000 people, there are literally dozens and dozens of parties. I keep coming accross new ones every time I look. It's beyond a joke.

Like to see watya got though.

 

[TremulousTetra]

Potentially 10,000 parties

10,000 people, 10,000 parties, that is anarchism isn't it?

 

[chilango]

Can I get an attractive binder for that?

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[butchersapron]

10,000 people, 10,000 parties, that is anarchism isn't it?

Oh god, here we go.

 

[chilango]

A liitle rushed, sadly.

 

[butchersapron]

A liitle rushed, sadly.

Got no work today?

 

[chilango]

Got no work today?

Oh yes. But it's class struggle in action innit?

 

[frogwoman]

bloody hell, dont give them ideas

I wish trots weren't so trotty

 

[mk12]

What about the people who did Aufheben? Could they be considered a group?

And those that left the CPGB after reading Maurice Brinton?

 

[chilango]

Almost 6000 views now. Workers Power seriously owe us.

 

[butchersapron]

What about the people who did Aufheben? Could they be considered a group?

no

 

[frogwoman]

What did they split into?

 

[mk12]

What did they split into?

I think they called themselves Red something.

 

[chilango]

And those that left the CPGB after reading Maurice Brinton?

Who was that?

 

[mk12]

Manny Neira (who posts here) joined them...

I may have got my wires crossed though.

 

[mk12]

Found it!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_(UK)

"Leninism became the rupture point within the group in the early summer of 2005. The discovery by group members of the writings of Maurice Brinton (pen name of Chris Pallis) and the Solidarity group led to a reassessment of the groups political orientation and the departure of one member to the AWL."

 

[belboid]

covred fifteen pages back!

he's now the commune

 

[mk12]

D'oh!

 

[imposs1904]

Manny Neira (who posts here) joined them...

I may have got my wires crossed though.

Does he post here? One of the most entertaining writers - for sheer humour and style - to appear in the pages of the left press.

 

[imposs1904]

covred fifteen pages back!

he's now the commune

I'm guessing the Leninoid Communer previously mentioned on the thread is someone else. Formerly of the AWL parish.

 

[butchersapron]

broder

 

[imposs1904]

broder

that's the chap.

 

[DaveCinzano]

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"A revolutionary organ replacement", surely?

I said, "A REVOLUTIONARY ORGAN REPLACEMENT, SURELY?)

 

[ViolentPanda]

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...

One man and his webbed feet.

 

[Delroy Booth]

covred fifteen pages back!

he's now the commune

Hang on, aren't The Commune a split from Workers Power, or am I just totally lost trying to follow all this?

Incidentally, Workers Power splits seems to produce groups that are better than your average trot. The Commune paper isn't at all bad, and Permanent Revolution may only have about 30 members but the journal they do is one of the best on the left, some of the people involved in it really do know their stuff.

 

[ViolentPanda]

10,000 people, 10,000 parties, that is anarchism isn't it?

Same jokes, year after year.
Are you Jim Davidson, perchance?

 

[Captain Hurrah]

I remember an old poster from elsewhere called neprimirimye (Russian for irreconcilable, but not sure if a reference to a Lenin quote or a group of Makhaevists) who appeared to know some of the minutiae of sectarian lefty politics in the UK.

 

[mk12]

He was on old member of the IS/SWP wasn't he?

 

[chilango]

I remember an old poster from elsewhere called neprimirimye (Russian for irreconcilable, but not sure if a reference to a Lenin quote or a group of Makhaevists) who appeared to know some of the minutiae of sectarian lefty politics in the UK.

Indeed. Neppy, me and a few others actually wrote a big guide to all the lefty groups many years back. He deleted it though after we had a row iirc.

 

[chilango]

He was on old member of the IS/SWP wasn't he?

Haven't heard from him in a while, but I think he still posts in various places in the lefty blogosphere.