Le Socialiste

Alright bro. Long time no speak, how's it going? See you've got your hands full with raging liberal Democrats by teh looks of that US Presidents thread in Politics!

Hey, give me a PM when you read this!

Meh, it seems to me (from what i've read and heard!) that it's just a bit of a hotch potch movement at teh moment. They seem to have been more caught up in the St. Pauls Church media stuff than actually getting their point across to the wider public.

I dunno, we'll see how it goes. Tis why i'm so interested to see it in the flesh tbh and get talking to the people there.

Yeah saw the reports and stuff on that, quite exciting though it's pretty small scale at the moment.

What would be great is if the students and workers could join up and then radicalise the Occupy movement, since that'd obviously swell our numbers, provide cross-sector strength and (due to students and Occupy) get the issue of working class rebellion into the media.

I've been away for a couple of months at uni, and yeah before then I was pretty cynical about the whole Occupy thing. Still am, but i'm quite excited that it's spread so much. Whether it will spread politically in the way we want is another matter, mind.

I'm actually really excited to be heading back to London in a couple of weeks, will be my first chance to visit Occupy London and see what's actually going down there, it's diffcult to actually understand what's really going on in all these Occupy events from media reports, left and right!

Sorry I never got back to you, I actually did send you a lengthly reply via visitor message, but it was when the board was down and it just got lost/deleted!

Yeah, being left-com/libertarian socialist is kind of frustrating, as I said earlier I don't really know where to go activism wise, i'm quite unlucky in that the uni I go to is a haven of apathy and 'moderate' politics, the only left-wing campaign at the moment is the SWPs Right To Work (which I left last year for obvious reasons1) and even that has pretty much no visible presence.

It's like, you're just caught between Leninist sects and Black Bloc groups, meh.

Sorry I never got back to you, I actually did send you a lengthly reply via visitor message, but it was when the board was down and it just got lost/deleted!

Yeah, being left-com/libertarian socialist is kind of frustrating, as I said earlier I don't really know where to go activism wise, i'm quite unlucky in that the uni I go to is a haven of apathy and 'moderate' politics, the only left-wing campaign at the moment is the SWPs Right To Work (which I left last year for obvious reasons1) and even that has pretty much no visible presence.

It's like, you're just caught between Leninist sects and Black Bloc groups, meh.