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darren redparty
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with such a small group to talk about branches would be to create a false impression, something we have been loathe to do, the left as a whole having a duplicious attitude to membership numbers.
As things stand the closest we have to a 'branch' is in guildford, four comrades are in relativly close proximity, and we are able to meet up fortnightly. as far as activity is concerned we have started working with our comrades in the surrey anarchist group and participate in their meetings.
As I have pointed out before we are as a group in a state of flux and like our web site our way of working will change a lot over the next few months.
As things stand the closest we have to a 'branch' is in guildford, four comrades are in relativly close proximity, and we are able to meet up fortnightly. as far as activity is concerned we have started working with our comrades in the surrey anarchist group and participate in their meetings.
As I have pointed out before we are as a group in a state of flux and like our web site our way of working will change a lot over the next few months.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
darren redparty said:
I'm not sure that the left really does have all that duplicitous an attitude to that kind of thing. Sure, most organisations don't regard detailed information about their membership or finances to be anyone else's business, but (with the exception of the SWP) my impression is that the members of most groups have access to very detailed information about their own organisation.
Has anyone still got their issue 1 or the red star handy?
i'm specifically looking for the links of Political and social movements i.e Labour, unions etc etc that are/were forming in Iraq a year or so ago.
many thanks in advance for any replies.
i'm specifically looking for the links of Political and social movements i.e Labour, unions etc etc that are/were forming in Iraq a year or so ago.
many thanks in advance for any replies.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
Meanwhile Workers Power don't seem to have produced a copy of their newspaper since the end of May, at least according to their website.
rebel warrior
Soca Warrior
Nigel Irritable said:
And to think that Britain is in a 'pre-revolutionary situation' as well!
Solidarnosc
"movement parasite" - BB
May? The last issue was produced in June, in time for the G8 protests. Building for that, preparing for the new issue of Fifth International (out soon, folks!) and key people being away for various periods, plus fundraising at festivals means we haven't had the chance to produce a paper for a couple of months. Hey, we're people; Workers Power doesn't have the luxury of full time staff unlike the SWP and SP.
The September issue of Workers Power will be out soon, articles are being written, so it should only be a couple of weeks.
The September issue of Workers Power will be out soon, articles are being written, so it should only be a couple of weeks.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
Solidarnosc said:
June, July, August, now we are in September, your "monthly" paper seems to have adopted a ferociously taxing publication schedule.
Solidarnosc said:
Not even one? Surely a group of over fifty can convince at least one member to go full time and scrape together some cash to pay for it?
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
Sorry. said:
I know, still less to produce a quarterly as Workers Power seem to be doing these days.
But a fulltime organiser or two can be extremely useful for a political organisation, particularly one that has ambitions of ever reaching a three figure membership.Still I'm not really in much of a position to laugh at Workers Power about publication schedules. The Irish SP's nominally quarterly magazine is in fact produced on a rigorous whenever the hell we get around to it basis.
cockneyrebel
New Member
We do have full-timers. I think Soli must be talking about the fact that we don't have paid staff specifically to produce the paper.
There has been a bit of a long gap between this issue and the last but nothing to worry about Nigel
Was this another attempt at humour
hurry up i have run out of recycled toilet paper
Solidarnosc
"movement parasite" - BB
Yeah, I meant on the paper.
We do have full timers in London and Leeds, but their main task is to facilitate the running of the organisation, not the paper. Of course it's not good that we've not had a paper out for a while, but AFAIK September's has just been fired off to the printers and should be out in a week or so. Our limited resources have been stretched as of late, but it's because we've involved in building for the G8, trade union work, REVO, de Menezes, and the Fifth International journal, amongst other things.
We do have full timers in London and Leeds, but their main task is to facilitate the running of the organisation, not the paper. Of course it's not good that we've not had a paper out for a while, but AFAIK September's has just been fired off to the printers and should be out in a week or so. Our limited resources have been stretched as of late, but it's because we've involved in building for the G8, trade union work, REVO, de Menezes, and the Fifth International journal, amongst other things.
not the fift international journal
arent you swp flotsrum
arent you swp flotsrum
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
belboid said:
At face value that seems unlikely.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
belboid said:you might well like it nigel, actually
or at least spot something there editors didn't.....
Can we take if from this that the latest issue of Workers Power contains a stirring contribution from the originator of Marxism-Leninism-Belboid Thought?
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
What did you write about? (and don't tell me you have joined the League for the Fifth International?)
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
Not as scary as Marxism-Leninism-Maoism-Gonzalo Thought.
Ok, belboid I admit I'm impatient but I don't want to wait another four months or however long it will be before Workers Power actually get their paper out. Could you pm me whatever juicy detail you were referring to earlier?
In return I will swap you a link to a thirty thousand word polemic over the bin tax.
Ok, belboid I admit I'm impatient but I don't want to wait another four months or however long it will be before Workers Power actually get their paper out. Could you pm me whatever juicy detail you were referring to earlier?
In return I will swap you a link to a thirty thousand word polemic over the bin tax.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
belboid said:nowt juicy, I just wonder whether they realised that everyone who actually gets quoted in my report of the conference is, or was, a member of the SP...
too late now anyway
Should mean that at least some interesting and worthwhile analysis finds its way into the pages of Workers Power... The number of reports of union conferences which appear in the left press quoting SP members as if they were unaffiliated militant workers is amusing sometimes.
I gather that the SP delegates there were a bit shocked by the weakness of the organised left as a whole.
Nigel Irritable
Five, Ten, Fifteen Years
Here is the report on the conference from "the socialist":
http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/2005/402/index.html?id=np11.htm
I can't find one in any of the other left papers. Can anyone post up a link to reports from SSP, AWL, SWP etc?
http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/2005/402/index.html?id=np11.htm
I can't find one in any of the other left papers. Can anyone post up a link to reports from SSP, AWL, SWP etc?
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
there was one in sw, i'll post a link if... i can be arsed. they only had one delegate - one of those legendary tu activist 'sleeper' members. in my delegation, a really nice bloke, and good on the politics. other than that...one socialist appeal member (also quoted) and two or three of yours. couple more from the socialist alliance, no awl, several cp'ers, but that was it.
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