love detective
there's no love too small
and worse than when mayday went from a4 to a5 too
not quite as bad as when mayday went from A5 to A4 though
and worse than when mayday went from a4 to a5 too
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I thought the ACI was WP?
it was (some of) pr and the other (nameless) split from WP, and a couple of others.No it was PR (at least all the PR people in Lewisham have been going on about ACI for ages)
does anyone want 20 copies of pr 12-18 for their archives, btw?
Yeah I'm gonna write one. Seriously. Post-apocalyptic it's gonna be. Fallout New Workers Party (Posadist-Leninist). It's gonna have some Luddites in it too.
Unite the rival national anticuts campaigns at the People’s Assembly – drawing in
the many local anticuts committees and campaigns. Together we must formulate a
national plan of action. We support the call for a huge demonstration of February 15
2003 proportions to launch mass action.
This is hot off the press:
Workers Power (the original) want some kind of 26 March re-run:
http://leftunity.org/building-left-unity-where-to-begin/
oh ... and a party to form and lead the working-class - that too
CHECK YOUR THREAD PRIVILEGEI hope you finished on the laurie penny thread before you started on this one muscovyduck
CHECK YOUR THREAD PRIVILEGE
they are being torn to shreds in the comments, 19th C Left indeed..
The surge of support for Left Unity – the appeal for a new working class party to fight the cuts – has the potential to make a real difference for millions looking for a party that finally puts their interests first.
Everyone’s talking about uniting the left – uniting revolutionary groups, uniting independent activists, uniting disillusioned Labour party members. This is a welcome step forward.
But no one’s talking about young people.
... not to make profit for the millionaires – this is the struggle for socialism. We can bring our own methods, which take the best of the old and new; we can develop our own organisations which defend our right to think through politics for ourselves, develop our own tactics and strategies but fighting every step of the way with our older brothers and sisters and our parents in the working class.
We can have solidarity without subordination. We can build a movement based in the schools and colleges, in the workplaces and amongst the unemployed young families across the world.
We can campaign for a world without racism, war and exploitation, without sexism, inequality, cultural deprivation and the destruction of our environment.
To do this today we will be most effective if we build our own organisations, prepared to work alongside every progressive ally, but reserving to ourselves alone the right to decide for ourselves, by ourselves how we can win socialist liberation for our generation and those to come.
We can do this by building an organisation with revolutionary politics that is created and run by the young people in the schools, colleges and workplaces.
This will transform our radical actions from spontaneous uprisings that all too often miss their target and see others reap all the rewards, into a conscious struggle for the power to change the world – alongside a revolutionary party which spearheads the working class’s struggle for self-emancipation.
Only thing worse than the dreadful Workers Power piece is the smug comments.
I spoke at a public meeting on a council estate with about 100 w class people present – I said I am from a small democratic w class socialist party and how can we help? The other speaker was from I think Workers Power and said exactly the same as the beginning of this post. At the end of the meeting he was chaired on the residents shoulders out of the room and I was shocked! It was only on leaving the buiding that I noticed him climbing out of the nearby skip! (This is a joke). There has never been a socialist society from Trotsky to Lenin to mass murderer Stalin we had top down ‘socialism’ what Rosa Luxemburg I think called a ‘bourgeois dictatorship of the proletariate’ – an elite central committee, secret police etc. perhaps what LU needs to be is grassroots-led, bottom up, democratic, peaceful,socialist and we should stand by working people locally, nationally and internationally. The pure m class SWP and parties like the SP (uncritical Trotskyist sects) and possibly WP seem to believe in the banking concept of political education – all they need to do is deposit their ideas and programme into the heads of the w class then their cadres and elite central committee will lead us all to the promised land! Yet progressive education follows the ideas of Paulo Freire and we engage with people, draw from them and their reality and experiences and work things out TOGETHER. My 3 influences are Paulo Freire, the music of John Lennon and Paul Frolich’s biography of Rosa Luxemburg. Perhaps people need to bring ideas to LU but as someone said perhaps we also need to learn. There is hope!
Once more unto the labour party dear comrades.
According to a man on the internet, the mighty Workers Power, brave defenders of the Workers Bomb, and Ukrainian Stalinism, have dissolved.
Truly, the class is now all at sea, without even a raft.
The RCG whose paper is Fight Racism Fight Imperialism will be yer lot going on about Cuba.
that's them. seem canny enough people but a bit barking.
Not so much fruitcakes as Yaffe cakes.