News Line

[rednblack]

Is that the IS' Zimbabwean section that was in the MDC until fairly recently?

i think they had split when i was reading it... it's only a bi-monthly job, so i only got two issues, but they were there every week i think...

 

[belboid]

Yep, looking at the site, you're right. Now, what did Marx say about 'the people'?

Liberal crap - in essence.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

Not an essay likely to be rewarded with an A.

 

[belboid]

oh - and everyone would sell their Irish comrades' papers on troops out demo's.

 

[belboid]

Not an essay likely to be rewarded with an A.

I'd add footnotes were this an academic site.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

I'd add footnotes were this an academic site.

Yeah, and postings would have to be peer-reviewed before publication.

 

[past caring]

They are. I run all of mine past ernie first.

 

[belboid]

I have no peers - I am the King of France you know?

 

[past caring]

The King in Mirrors, more like....

 

[tollbar]

Back to Newsline. They recruited a school student in Glasgow a while back from the SPGB and put him on their version of the YS national committee and with the same he defected back to the SPGB.

 

[butchersapron]

Was this one RC?

 

[rednblack]

Was this one RC?

who is now in the AF!

at a guess

 

[butchersapron]

He's been through already...(really) we were the first step of his journey...

 

[cockneyrebel]

All right, sectariana fans. I think we can all agree that it's never been the same since Gerry Healy died. I was therefore most chuffed to be proffered, at Denmark Hill station the night before last, a copy of News Line. The bloke trying to sell it to me appeared to be about sixty and was wearing one of those big round jester's hats.

That blokes a classic. He tours round south London. Seen him at loads of south london stations on and off.

 

[Idaho]

I used to buy a copy of News Line from an old scrawny bloke at Finsbury Park when I saw him. He would look at me so piteously and say "for the workers" in pleading tones.

News Line must be the strangest and least in touch with reality lefty rag that I have ever come across. It is actually so odd and out there that it's facinating. Imagine if North Korean University students learning english were given a class project to produce an english newspaper from the pictures and information they had available and you come close.

The strangest thing about it is on the back it has sports news that is so normal and routine that it throws the weirdness of the news section into sharper relief.

 

[rednblack]

That blokes a classic. He tours round south London. Seen him at loads of south london stations on and off.

thank god you're not in a tiny trotskyite group who's members have amusing taste in hats!


er hang on...

 

[dynamicbaddog]

That blokes a classic. He tours round south London. Seen him at loads of south london stations on and off.

I see him in Peckham Rye Lane last Thursday afternoon, I bought a paper off him, he was also trying to flog tickets for admission into this jumble sale they were having

 

[charlie mowbray]

He's been through already...(really) we were the first step of his journey...

And he has serious problems with reality

 

[Idris2002]

World left rocked by 'ordinary person buys ultra-left paper' shocker.

From here via Ken Macleod. Scroll down in both cases.

 

[belboid]

World left rocked by 'ordinary person buys ultra-left paper' shocker.

From here via Ken Macleod. Scroll down in both cases.

great headline on that leaflet!

 

[rednblack]

i have been criticised in world revolution

beat that

 

[Wilf]

Might be false memory syndrome, but i have a feeling that Newsline tried to become a daily about 20 years ago - supported by questionable money? Anybody?

 

[rednblack]

newsline is still a daily

and they got money by shopping iraqi trade unionists to saddam who then killed them

 

[belboid]

newsline is still a daily

almost daily anyway.

 

[kropotkin]

newsline is still a daily

and they got money by shopping iraqi trade unionists to saddam who then killed them

I took the be-jestered seller referred to on this thread up on that last time I saw him: he claimed to have no knowledge of what I was on about.

 

[charlie mowbray]

Well, he would do, wouldn't he?
They shopped those Iraqis alright- well Healy and his inner circle did. And they died very painful deaths

 

[BarryB]

I used to buy a copy of News Line from an old scrawny bloke at Finsbury Park when I saw him. He would look at me so piteously and say "for the workers" in pleading tones.

News Line must be the strangest and least in touch with reality lefty rag that I have ever come across. It is actually so odd and out there that it's facinating. Imagine if North Korean University students learning english were given a class project to produce an english newspaper from the pictures and information they had available and you come close.

The strangest thing about it is on the back it has sports news that is so normal and routine that it throws the weirdness of the news section into sharper relief.

This must be Wilf. Ive seen him walking down Holloway Road with a pram. Nothing strange about that you might think. But instead of a baby he is wheeling round bundles of News Line which he trys to sell to unsuspecting members of the public.

BarryB

 

[vimto]

Nah, that was Larouche's lot, and someone on here was the best mate of that lad.

Just been reading up on these loons and by fuck they aint half scary...nutters to the core.

http://www.publiceye.org/larouche/nclc1.html

Political Views of Lyndon LaRouche

 

[Donna Ferentes]

The chap was at Peckham Rye this morning. No titfer, though.

 

[tollbar]

Was this one RC?

The very one.