{"id":1068,"date":"2008-03-05T15:50:34","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T05:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2008-03-05T17:27:11","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T07:27:11","slug":"pssst-wanna-manifesto-awesome-new-front-group-for-lm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1068","title":{"rendered":"Pssst. Wanna Manifesto? Awesome new front group for LM"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a dead parrot, the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) continues to display a great deal of life; the bizarros gotta new front group: Manifesto Club<\/a>. It joins:<\/p>\n

1) Africa Direct — genocide? What genocide?<\/a> (defunct);
\n*Association of British Drivers<\/a> — just say no to speed limits;
\n2) Audacity.org<\/a> — “Let’s build!” (awesome);
\n3) Campaign Against Militarism (defunct — begat<\/em> the London International Research Exchange);
\n3) Campaign for Internet Freedom<\/a> (defunct);
\n4) Channel Cyberia (defunct);
\n5) Families for Freedom (defunct);
\n6) Feminists for Justice — date rape? (defunct);
\n7) Freedom & Law (defunct);
\nEIGHT) Future Cities Project<\/a> (awesome);
\nGenetic Interest Group<\/a>
\n9) Global Futures (defunct);
\n10) Institute of Ideas<\/a> (awesome);
\n11) Irish Freedom Movement (defunct);
\n12) Libero! — established by (Doctor) Carlton Brick* as a support group for libertarian football fans \/ a weird-arse attempt at cornering the football market (defunct);
\n13) Litigious Society (defunct);
\n14) London International Research Exchange (defunct);
\n15) Parents Against the Charter ? (defunct);
\nProgress Educational Trust<\/a> GM is cool!
\nScience Media Centre<\/a> GM is cool!
\n16) Sense about Science<\/a> (awesome);
\n17) Sp!ked Online<\/a> (awesome);
\n18) Transport Research Group — cars are good (defunct — begat<\/em> the Future Cities Project);
\n19) WORLDwrite<\/a> (awesome);
\n20) (East London) Workers Against Racism (defunct);<\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

21) the magazine NOVO<\/a><\/em> (Germany).<\/p>\n

*Links with but not established by.<\/p>\n

Established in 1978 as a split from the IS, the RCP — according to James Heartfield (James Hughes) — was disbanded over a fairly long period. Thus the last time the RCP stood in an election was 1992, while the last public campaign it was involved in was the Campaign Against Militarism (1992–1995); the RCP sold LM<\/em> to Helene Guldberg at the end of 1996.<\/p>\n

Living Marxism<\/em>, the monthly magazine of the RCP, was launched in 1988. It later (1996<\/a>) changed its title to LM<\/em> — which met polite titters — but what got the Godless Communists into heap ’em big trouble was an article by Thomas Deichmann, published in LM<\/em> #97 (February 1997), and titled ‘The picture that fooled the world’<\/a>. “This image of an emaciated Muslim caged behind Serb barbed wire, filmed by a British news team, became a worldwide symbol of the war in Bosnia. But the picture is not quite what it seems”, wrote Doubting Thomas (LM<\/em> issued a press release<\/a> at the time to ensure maximum publicity for his startling claims). Accused of manufacturing lies, Ed Vuillamy, one of the journalists responsible for producing the story, denied<\/a> Deichmann’s allegations. A few years later, in March 2000, ITN won a libel case against LM<\/em>, and it was forced to close<\/a>. See<\/em> David Campbell, Atrocity, memory, photography: imaging the concentration camps of Bosnia – the case of ITN versus Living Marxism<\/em><\/a> | Also<\/em> Alexander Cockburn, Guardian Fabricates Chomsky Quotes in Bid to Smear World’s Number One Intellectual: Storm Over Brockes’ Fakery<\/a>, Counterpunch<\/em>, November 5\/6, 2005 | David Pallister, John Vidal and Kevin Maguire, Life after Living Marxism: Fighting for freedom – to offend, outrage and question everything<\/a>, The Guardian<\/em>, July 8 2000 | Dave Walker, Libertarian Humanism or Critical Utopianism? The Demise of the Revolutionary Communist Party<\/a>, New Interventions<\/em>, Vol.8, No.3, 1998 | George Monbiot, Far Left or Far Right?: Living Marxism\u2019s interesting allegiances<\/a>, November 1, 1998<\/p>\n

*Three speakers focused on David Beckham, among them Carlton Brick, from the university [of Paisley, Scotland], whose address was intriguingly titled “Father, why hast thou forsaken me? Postmodernism, desire and dissatisfaction: a case study of David Beckham’s meaning”. Explaining how Beckham’s career has been littered with Christian symbolism, Brick said redemption, resurrection, and salvation “are the narratives that tell his story”. The footballer’s perception of himself seems to concur: he has appeared in magazines adopting a Christ-like pose, has a crucifix tattoo and named one of his sons Cruz, Spanish for cross. But Brick’s paper said reading Beckham as postmodern religious icon, a new god of the global consumer culture, was insufficient. “Rather, Beckham’s celebrity speaks to the paradoxical desire to attribute meaning in a culture which is increasingly defined as meaningless …” ~ Beyonce, Becks and me me me<\/a>, Sydney Morning Herald<\/em>, September 17, 2005<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also awesome : Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist)<\/a> | Revolutionary Communist Party (USA)<\/a> | Revolutionary Communist Party (Canada)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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