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The Socialist Workers Party<\/a><\/strong>‘s heydays appear to be behind it, which has got to be of some concern to its newly (re-)formed local franchise. Thus only last week, one of its approximately 6,000<\/a> members — who happens to be a member of a local council — split<\/a> and, rather than establishing a new vanguard of the working class (as is the traditional and largely accepted practice), cut straight to the chase and joined the Tories. More recently, after 30 years more-or-less loyal service, some (apparently quite funny) bloke called Mark Steel<\/a> ups stumps and leaves too (although not for the Tories).<\/p>\n

Another Mark, Thomas, got pissed off<\/a> with the SWP some years ago; its attempts to suck the life<\/a> out of the ‘anti-globalisation’\/’anti-capitalist’ movement in the UK was documented by Schnews<\/em> a few years earlier. Funnily enough, while AWOL<\/a> was attacked for all the usual reasons (“Anarchists! Sectarians!”), the “great”<\/a> Ian Rintoul of Solidarity apparently proclaimed a similar policy at refugee activist meetings: no paper-sellers<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Speaking of Lefties, I happened to stumble upon davidthompson’s blog, and he’s re-published<\/a> a BBC documentary on the subject of an abortive 80s leftist tabloid called The News On Sunday<\/em>. It’s titled ‘A Lot of Balls’. The two other episodes in the ‘Lefties’ series are Property is Theft<\/a>, ‘the story of Villa Road, a squatted street’, and Angry Wimmin<\/a>, on the Revolutionary Feminists, authors of ‘Political Lesbianism — the Case Against Heterosexuality’ (available from your friendly local anarchist community library).<\/p>\n

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Angry Wimmin<\/a> on Veoh “Wimmin. With Placards. I think most of these wimmin have had their brians replaced by lesbionic circuits. Or something.” | Property Is Theft<\/a> on Veoh “Marxists, Lenninists and assorted middle class dimwits attempt to bring down the capitalist system by SQUATTING!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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