I don't see delivery workers spending a lot of time on social media cutting themselves off from commonalities people can organise around. I do see the University left doing it. Every time i turn on this laptop - and i don't think a genuflection towards their lecturers this week undos that wider damage.
This is what may point 1) last night was inviting people to fill in. It's to do with the changes we forced on value-producing capital from the last 60s onwards and the rise in the social wage. They responded by literally decentering working class communities and power - via diffusing workplaces and territory. No longer the row of houses by the factory, the pub and the shops. Now the segmented workforce, the lovely new house further out, the mall. Now the demand to be happy on your own not as part of a rising class. I am turning LETTSA here aren't i?
Don't get me started on the great pensions scam. Too late.
Me too.
I think you make a good point about the break-up of physical community structure. Given a few posters and paste, you could have meetings/demos/political talks publicised on a street, near busy points and bus stops, but you're not going to see posters or petitions between the greengrocer and the newsagent if those (and other things) are just different corners in Tesco. Hard for me to tell, as I live in a very nothingy enclave (141 homes in a big building site that used to be a large social housing estate/scheme) and I am not out and about much. I know if I went into the city centre on a Saturday, there'd be no shortage of causes and charities setting out their stalls, but I now wonder if people, as well as not really having proper local high streets with shops and pubs etc, are also less likely to bother going into city/town centres, as so much can be done online.
Well, everyone has the mandatory 1%/2% arrangement, but it's effectively nothing, more individualist tokenism to enable cuts elsewhere, ultimately I suspect to the state pension.
Or entirely normal for any forum.
Therein is the crux of it - not only do you have to figure out what happened to the directing organisers of yore, you have to go and engage possibly-agreeable randoms to understand why they're not engaging in anything other than the conversation you're extracting from them. And that's really fucking hard, you almost become the organiser in doing so - but it's also the opposite of asking on here.
Fair point, I've removed most of my rant to avoid derailing the thread.
, but I think butchersapron has a point. I've not had much contact with students for years now so when I went to the local UCU picket last week I was surprised to find a couple of students arguing against a Stand Up To Racism meeting being organised. Not on the grounds that it was SWP (which actually only one of the organisers was), but because the people organising it were white and any anti-racist activity on campus must be black led. Chatting with the students later it was clear they had no idea of racism being inimical to the interests of the whole working class. To them all white people benefit from racism so only black people have a material interest in opposing it and white people can only be allies under their orders.
