Sectarianism for beginners

[Sorry.]

Haven't they got a new name now? Something like "Institute of Ideas"?

and Spiked! Online I think

 

[Chuck Wilson]

It is quite ironic because essentially the campaign around Chapel Street market was one that the SWP CC pulled people out of as quick as they could , then pretended that it didn't exist and that the squaddists and the fash were as bad as each other.This was at a time when the CC used a whole raft of lies and smears against those in the SWP and outside who who had actually taken the fight to the enemy As I recall there were casualties on both sides with a young teenage son of one the the SWP (or exSWP by then) getting a swastica or NF cut on his stomach by the fash.Patrick Harrington first came to ligt there and was taped threatening to bomb anti fascists. I only went down about three times and I am sure Joe Reilly will probably have more details but I remember it as a particularly bloody and drawn out campaign that we won.

I seem to remember that Alex Callinicos was asked by a branch member why he wasn't down there selling the paper and he replied that he didn't have to as he was an intellectual or something.

 

[Idris2002]

I seem to remember that Alex Callinicos was asked by a branch member why he wasn't down there selling the paper and he replied that he didn't have to as he was an intellectual or something.

And quite right too!
















(joke, btw)

 

[boxinghefner]

you get used to it after awhile.
My advice - get out while you have the chance!
Aheh

 

[mk12]

Apparently, he's a shit paper seller.

 

[boxinghefner]

My boyfriend had Callinicos as a lecturer.
Apparently he was utterly shite at it. which is perhaps interesting, perhaps not.

 

[revol68]

I seem to remember that Alex Callinicos was asked by a branch member why he wasn't down there selling the paper and he replied that he didn't have to as he was an intellectual or something.

I don't thin you have be an "intellectuall" to realise what a pile of shite selling the Socialist Worker is.

And I would hardly call Callinicos an intellectual.

 

[treelover]

Well, Wikpedia does,

Alex Callinicos (born 1950 in South Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe)) is a Marxist intellectual and a member of the Central Committee of the Socialist Workers Party. He was professor of politics at the University of York before recently being appointed professor of European Studies at King's College London. He is a member of the editorial board of International Socialism and British correspondent of Actuel Marx. A prolific writer for both the revolutionary and the academic presses he is a descendant of the famous historian Lord Acton. During the Second World War his father was active in the Greek Resistance to Nazi occupation.

 

[treelover]

and he's a toff!

 

[revol68]

Well, Wikpedia does,

oh there using intellectual in the context of someone who spends their time making shite interpretations of actual intellectuals, like the same way people might define Judge Jules as an artist.

 

[Pickman's model]

i thought that kcl was a good college until i saw they employ the vile callinicos.

 

[knopf]

Last time I saw Callinicos, he was arguing that the New International, as outlined in Derrida's Spectres of Marx was not unlike Respect.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

If Callinicos is not an intellectual I'm not sure who is. Except Pickmann's Model of course.

 

[Nigel Irritable]

The first time I encountered most of the SWP leadership in one room was at one of the earliest planning meetings for the London ESF. Their delegation consisted mostly of the top-brass, all generals and no privates so to speak. I remember being quite surprised that at the end none of them bothered to sell their paper, leaving it to the couple of rank and filers present. I can't say if that was standard practice though.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

I've seen Callinicos selling the paper. He wasn't very good at it though.

How's Tony Mulhearn? A market trader of the field? "Socialist. A pound or six for a fiver."

 

[Nigel Irritable]

How's Tony Mulhearn? A market trader of the field? "Socialist. A pound or six for a fiver."

I've never been on a paper sale with him or the like so I can't tell you. You can buy a copy of the "Socialist" (Irish version) off Joe Higgins on any demonstration in Dublin though. And Dave Nellist is pretty handy at shifting them.