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Who is that a pic of and what does it mean?

(split because of character limits)

What do you think about the WILs politics? I'm kind of an ex-Trotskyist, though I've never been in an organisation that's called itself Trotskyist, so I tend to be more sympathetic to the Trotskyist-descended left than the Maoist-descended left in the US. The WIL though I think is very Labourite and British, and is more interested in replicating what it sees as the golden days of its former tendency in the UK than actually building an independent workers movement with socialist politics, so I'd be interested to hear what your take on them is.

If it were somewhere between 2007-2010, I'd say it's worth joining the Socialist Party even if it isn't explicitly revolutionary because there's a growing revolutionary wing within it. That's not nearly the case anymore, because the right wing has stonewalled basically everything the left has put forward and refuses to engage in political discussion, that much of the left has just given up (some of whom formed Revolutionary Unity, as I mentioned.) My plan for the moment is to stick it out until the next convention in 2013, but I'm trying to make RU my main area of political activity at the moment, particularly building up a "CPGB-ist" trend within it.

It's good to see another person in NJ who's interested in Kautsky and the CPGB. I'm actually going to Communist University next week, so I'll try to write up my experiences for folks here who may be interested.

I'm an increasingly disgruntled member of the SP-USA, and I'm also involved with a group called Revolutionary Unity, which is kind of a soft split from the former: http://www.revunity.org/

Fuck maoism. Mike Tusom has annorthodox fighting stance and has a mao tattoo i think hes a good boxer (rebellion) so Im a orthodox maoist.

Comrade, you haven't joined the Revolutionary Strategy and Kautsky Literati usergroups yet!

Nice avatar, I'm a big fan of Serge Leone and his Man with No Name trilogy.

Oh, it was quite fun, apart from a couple days when my stuff got soaked and I had to stop and sort that out. I unfortunately chose to go during the middle of a heat wave, but I still had a great time.