What was your first political organisation?

[Wilf]

For me The Labour Party (though not in it for the last 16 years. However, still very ing)

 

[darren redparty]

why didn't anyone tell me about the rcps horizontal recruitment policy when I was 16?

 

[belboid]

because you were 16.

Your spots might have burst on their lovely leather jackets!

 

[D]

I formed my own group with may mates , when i was 8. the AAA( anti adult association), i think our 'program' consisted of , adults should stop making stupid rules, stop being hypocrites, and generally stop being a real pain in the arse, and let us have some fun! Not a bad program ,now that i think about it!

That is superb!

 

[Thora_v1]

I've never signed up to any particular group - been to meetings of a couple of groups though. I just can't settle...

 

[mk12]

Joined Socialist Alliance first, then SWP later on.

 

[articul8]

their horizontal recruiting?

My mate's partner (female) was a member of the SWP/IS in the 80's and insists they pursued this policy too. Don't know why she would make it up, as she has left but isn't especially rabidly anti-Cliffite

 

[james_walsh]

My mate's partner (female) was a member of the SWP/IS in the 80's and insists they pursued this policy too. Don't know why she would make it up, as she has left but isn't especially rabidly anti-Cliffite

The swp round here, have to get it , where they can. Members or horizontal action. I don't think its a 'policy', I think there desperate.

 

[rednblack]

My father won't be posting here any time soon. Until the North Korean laptop industry gears up he'll stick to his East German typewriter.

do your parents live in southampton by any chance?

 

[rednblack]

i joined the labour party and the T&G when i was 18, and me and some mates set up a little group of our own after being ignored by AFA ( )
then stopped paying subs after making sure derek off big brother's boyfriend of the time lost his seat

then joined the swp for about 6 months (after a gap of several years) then moved to haringey and joined HSG

 

[Divisive Cotton]

Yes, I am honest enough to admit that this was probably partially due to a Freudian attempt to define myself in opposition to my parents. However, I was worried (this is ludicrous looking back at, but one thinks ludicrous things at age 18) that the fact that my whole family (father, mother and two uncles) were red-in-tooth-and-claw communists would hinder my military career. So I joined the FCS to demonstrate my non-communist sympathies.

Over the years I have found membership very useful both professionally and socially. The Conservative party is a wonderful institution whose members are totally dedicated to the acquisition of wealth and satiation of libertine sexual desires.

However, because of my parents I've always been very interested in far left politics and some forms of anarchist thought which is why I hang out in U75.

My father won't be posting here any time soon. Until the North Korean laptop industry gears up he'll stick to his East German typewriter.

That's nuts - so you are in the military and the Conservative Party - do your parents still talk to??!

 

[DownwardDog]

That's nuts - so you are in the military and the Conservative Party - do your parents still talk to??!

Not in the military now, but still a Tory robber baron! I think, at first, my parents couldn't quite believe I had taken the Queen's shilling and we had a rocky couple of months but our relationship is fine now.

My parents, in common with many members of these far left groups, reserve their real venom, not for those of us on the right, but for members of other rival communist groups. Generally, those with whom they have had passionate, hair-splitting disputes over matters of doctrine. cf U75 passim.

 

[DownwardDog]

do your parents live in southampton by any chance?

No, North-East.

Other examples of my parents' ideological purity/insanity:

We never had a TV. Hence, I got 4 A grades in my A-levels.

My father worked as a hospital porter (or striking hospital porter) for 40 years and turned down supervisory and management positions several times.

In the 80s they refused to buy their council house, which they still rent to this day. I estimate that they would now own it outright and it would be worth 160,000 pounds.

And many, many more...

 

[james_walsh]

Not in the military now, but still a Tory robber baron! I think, at first, my parents couldn't quite believe I had taken the Queen's shilling and we had a rocky couple of months but our relationship is fine now.

My parents, in common with many members of these far left groups, reserve their real venom, not for those of us on the right, but for members of other rival communist groups. Generally, those with whom they have had passionate, hair-splitting disputes over matters of doctrine. cf U75 passim.

Its reassuring to know your from a good home.

 

[Gumbert]

class war through peer pressure and stupidity..

oh and cos i liked the hospitalised copper and winding the parents up

 

[treelover]

So you have done the opposite then,and become a right wing war pilot who probably is so loaded the fifties keep falling out of your pockets..

I'd say he was a man of principle and he seems to have made sure you did alright .

Hey ho Downward Do'g how many kids did you kill today!(or in 1999)
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'My father worked as a hospital porter (or striking hospital porter) for 40 years and turned down supervisory and management positions several times.

In the 80s they refused to buy their council house, which they still rent to this day. I estimate that they would now own it outright and it would be worth 160,000 pounds.'

A'

 

[WasGeri]

No, North-East.

Other examples of my parents' ideological purity/insanity:

We never had a TV. Hence, I got 4 A grades in my A-levels....

And you're moaning about this?

My father worked as a hospital porter (or striking hospital porter) for 40 years and turned down supervisory and management positions several times.....

Good for him. Perhaps he doesn't want to be the boss.

In the 80s they refused to buy their council house, which they still rent to this day. I estimate that they would now own it outright and it would be worth 160,000 pounds.

Good man, refusing to be bribed by the evil witch.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

I had an odd experience a few months ago when I suddenly realised that if I had held the same opinions at the age of eighteen that I hold now, I would have joined the Labour Party.

 

[treelover]

obviously, thats why you always defend the SWP....

 

[Donna Ferentes]

 

[Antrophe]

Bleeding Swapper was I.

 

[Donna Ferentes]

And now you're what, Yoda?

 

[hibee]

Very brief spell in the Labour party before moving Trotwards

 

[Herbert Read]

Very brief spell in the Labour party before moving Trotwards

*shudder*

two wrongs dont make a right

 

[EatMoreChips]

Does my O-level politics and government class count?

Probably not, I suppose.

 

[sovietpop]

besides CND? an anarchist group I set up with some friends.

 

[hibee]

*shudder*

two wrongs dont make a right

frying pan/fire

 

[Echo Beach]

SWaP too.

I wonder how many ppl who ticked SWP are still members?

 

[rebel warrior]

SWaP too.

I wonder how many ppl who ticked SWP are still members?

Currently it is about 20-25%...

 

[Ryazan]

Is your tagline a Communist mobile phone advertisement plug?