Kez
8th July 2003, 20:02
This shit cracks me up, these 2 are in the same alliance, and they still manage to *****!
Also note the stupidest move in the world in allying with the muslims in Birmingham, insteaad of socialists. VIVA SWP!
WEEKLY WORKER 488, available from Thursday, July 10
(The Weekly Worker is the paper of the Communist Party of Great Britain)
CRISIS FOR THE SOCIALIST ALLIANCE
Reports from this year's 'Marxism', annual school of the Socialist Workers Party, indicate that the project for left unity in Britain faces a serious challenge, with the key component of the SA - the SWP - intent on unity with forces outside the workers' movement. Full coverage in the coming issue of the Weekly Worker, but here are some disturbing quotes from 'Marxism' so far:
"In the SWP we are moving into the new left. The task for the SWP is do we want to lie back in the ghetto with people who don't want to relate to the real world or are we prepared to link in with new forces in society?" - Lindsey German of the SWP at Marxism 2003 this week.
"It’s popular to get up here and say that we want unity. But anyone who has done this sort of work in the trade union movement or in any campaign knows that the precondition is that you do not let people who represent very little stand in your way" - John Rees on the SWPs 'replacement' of Steve Godward, ex-chair of Birmingham Socialist Alliance
"Some muslims are anti-gay, this is perfectly true, but it is not a question we pose to christians who join the socialist alliance, is it??" - Lindsey German defends an electoral alliance with the mosque.
"The prospects of knitting together the left and the unions … many people in the muslim community and the existing forces in the SA will not be easy to achieve, but it does stand there now, waiting to happen… it is a pressing and urgent task in front of us… this is the spirit of the age" - John Rees outlines his vision of the future of the Socialist Alliance
"As a result of this [ousting the leadership of Birmingham SA] we had the largest meeting our movement has held in that city in a generation, and I was proud to be on that platform alongside George Galloway representing the SA. That is the future: the rest is the past" - John Rees lays it on the line for other organisations and individuals in the SA. You are either on board for new political turn, or you're out.
Also note the stupidest move in the world in allying with the muslims in Birmingham, insteaad of socialists. VIVA SWP!
WEEKLY WORKER 488, available from Thursday, July 10
(The Weekly Worker is the paper of the Communist Party of Great Britain)
CRISIS FOR THE SOCIALIST ALLIANCE
Reports from this year's 'Marxism', annual school of the Socialist Workers Party, indicate that the project for left unity in Britain faces a serious challenge, with the key component of the SA - the SWP - intent on unity with forces outside the workers' movement. Full coverage in the coming issue of the Weekly Worker, but here are some disturbing quotes from 'Marxism' so far:
"In the SWP we are moving into the new left. The task for the SWP is do we want to lie back in the ghetto with people who don't want to relate to the real world or are we prepared to link in with new forces in society?" - Lindsey German of the SWP at Marxism 2003 this week.
"It’s popular to get up here and say that we want unity. But anyone who has done this sort of work in the trade union movement or in any campaign knows that the precondition is that you do not let people who represent very little stand in your way" - John Rees on the SWPs 'replacement' of Steve Godward, ex-chair of Birmingham Socialist Alliance
"Some muslims are anti-gay, this is perfectly true, but it is not a question we pose to christians who join the socialist alliance, is it??" - Lindsey German defends an electoral alliance with the mosque.
"The prospects of knitting together the left and the unions … many people in the muslim community and the existing forces in the SA will not be easy to achieve, but it does stand there now, waiting to happen… it is a pressing and urgent task in front of us… this is the spirit of the age" - John Rees outlines his vision of the future of the Socialist Alliance
"As a result of this [ousting the leadership of Birmingham SA] we had the largest meeting our movement has held in that city in a generation, and I was proud to be on that platform alongside George Galloway representing the SA. That is the future: the rest is the past" - John Rees lays it on the line for other organisations and individuals in the SA. You are either on board for new political turn, or you're out.