trotskythehero
24th September 2010, 08:25
Hello comrades. Happened across this site when googling for some information a few days ago and lingered a while.
Always had socialist leanings from early childhood when my mum told me that "Labour were for the working class". Joined the LPYS in 1968 and came across the Militant Tendency. When I left school I found myself working with a CP'er, a member of IS (now the SWP) and a member of the IMG and had some really good, and sometimes heated discussions at lunchtimes and breaks.
Finally joined Militant, now the Socialist Party England and Wales, after attending a debate on State Capitalism between Ernest Mandel and Tony Cliff at Friends Meeting House in London. To be honest the standard of the "debate" was appalling. The thing I remember most about it was Cliff throwing various accusations at Mandel and Mandel responding with "Call a commission". My reaction was that these people and their organisations cannot be seroius.
They were great days, the class struggle was on the up and the political conciousness of working class activists was rising. In contrast, we have just been through a period of 30 years where workers have been knocked back. But its starting to change and I'm glad I've stayed the course to participate in the struggles to come.
I have strong opinions, but honest debate and discussion of differences is one of the lifebloods of our movement and that's what I'm hoping for in my time here.
Greeting from an Aging Trotskyist.
Always had socialist leanings from early childhood when my mum told me that "Labour were for the working class". Joined the LPYS in 1968 and came across the Militant Tendency. When I left school I found myself working with a CP'er, a member of IS (now the SWP) and a member of the IMG and had some really good, and sometimes heated discussions at lunchtimes and breaks.
Finally joined Militant, now the Socialist Party England and Wales, after attending a debate on State Capitalism between Ernest Mandel and Tony Cliff at Friends Meeting House in London. To be honest the standard of the "debate" was appalling. The thing I remember most about it was Cliff throwing various accusations at Mandel and Mandel responding with "Call a commission". My reaction was that these people and their organisations cannot be seroius.
They were great days, the class struggle was on the up and the political conciousness of working class activists was rising. In contrast, we have just been through a period of 30 years where workers have been knocked back. But its starting to change and I'm glad I've stayed the course to participate in the struggles to come.
I have strong opinions, but honest debate and discussion of differences is one of the lifebloods of our movement and that's what I'm hoping for in my time here.
Greeting from an Aging Trotskyist.