{"id":13981,"date":"2010-02-17T18:32:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T08:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=13981"},"modified":"2010-02-17T18:49:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T08:49:48","slug":"shes-like-heroin-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=13981","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;She&#8217;s Like Heroin To Me&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>Q. What&#8217;s the hardest part about rollerblading?<br \/>\nA. Telling your parents that you&#8217;re gay.<\/ul>\n<p>Following Lindsey German&#8217;s decision to <a href=\"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=13868\">resign<\/a>, a small group of right-wing deviationists have also resigned <em>en masse<\/em> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swp.org.uk\/\">Socialist Workers Party<\/a> (UK), the largest collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marxists.org\/archive\/cliff\/\">Ygael Gluckstein<\/a>&#8216;s followers on the globe.<\/p>\n<p>This is officially <em>A Big Deal<\/em> in Ye Olde Worlde of Leftist Trainspotting.<\/p>\n<p>The gory details may be found on the Luna17 blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/luna17activist.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/why-we-are-resigning-from-swp-open.html\">Why we are resigning from SWP: an open letter<\/a>, February 16, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Choice quotes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An authoritarian internal regime has developed as a result of this change in direction&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The use of disciplinary methods to \u2018win\u2019 arguments is completely foreign to the traditions to the SWP and should have no place in the socialist movement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>LOL.<\/p>\n<p>Luna17 also asks <a href=\"http:\/\/luna17activist.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/that-disputed-stop-war-meeting-setting.html\">&#8216;We Are Many: where were you seven years ago today?&#8217;<\/a>: &#8216;today&#8217; being February 15, 2010; seven years since a weekend of worldwide anti-war demonstrations that brought millions of people out onto the streets. In fact, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/2765215.stm\">BBC<\/a>: &#8220;Between six and 10 million people are thought to have marched in up to 60 countries over the weekend &#8211; the largest demonstrations of their kind since the Vietnam War.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was in Melbourne, advocating <em><a href=\"http:\/\/antigerman.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/28\/no-war-but-the-class-war\/\">No War But The Class War<\/a><\/em>. The banner made it on to the front page of <em>The Age<\/em>, and at some point (on that or a subsequent rally) those responsible for the dastardly act were castigated from the stage for their violent inclinations.<\/p>\n<p>Or something.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.takver.com\/history\/melb\/peace2003\/age_coverphoto.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Obviously, <em>The Biggest Global Peace Protests Before A War Actually Started<\/em>\u2122 did not stop the war, which continues, apparently, in a land far, far away&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>See also<\/em> : <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shutdownthemovie.com\/\">Shutdown<\/a><\/em> | <a href=\"http:\/\/libcom.org\/aufheben\/aufheben-12-2004\/a-phenomenal-anti-war-movement\">A phenomenal anti-war movement?<\/a>, <em>Aufheben<\/em>, No.12, 2004.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"332\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/swf\/x8x75\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><br \/><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x8x75_system-of-a-down-boom_music\">SyStEm Of A DoWn &#8211; BoOm<\/a><\/b><br \/><i>Uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/MiKaEl94\">MiKaEl94<\/a>. &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/en\/channel\/music\">See the latest featured music videos.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<h2>Well, there&#8217;ve always been people going around saying someday the war will end. I say, you can&#8217;t be sure the war will <em>ever<\/em> end. Of course, it may have to pause occasionally&#8211;for breath, as it were&#8211;it can even meet with an accident&#8211;nothing on this earth is perfect&#8211;a war of which we could say it left nothing to be desired will probably never exist. A war can come to a sudden halt&#8211;from unforeseen causes&#8211;you can&#8217;t think of everything&#8211;a little oversight, and the war&#8217;s in the hole, and someone&#8217;s got to pull it out again! The someone is the Emperor or the King or the Pope. They&#8217;re such friends in need, the war has really nothing to worry about, it can look forward to a prosperous future.<\/h2>\n<p>~ Bertolt Brecht, <em>Mother Courage<\/em> (1938)<\/ul>\n<p><em>See also<\/em> : <a href=\"http:\/\/whitehouse.georgewbush.org\/index.asp\">The White House<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Bonus Bush!<\/h2>\n<p><object width=\"445\" height=\"364\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/8PAGb2O7lms&#038;hl=en_GB&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x5d1719&#038;color2=0xcd311b&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q. What&#8217;s the hardest part about rollerblading? A. Telling your parents that you&#8217;re gay. Following Lindsey German&#8217;s decision to resign, a small group of right-wing deviationists have also resigned en masse from the Socialist Workers Party (UK), the largest collection &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=13981\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,6,13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anarchism","category-history","category-trot-guide","category-war-on-terror"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-3Dv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13981"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14022,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13981\/revisions\/14022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}