International Socialist Network (ex-SWP) meeting 13 April, Central London
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They have done their first podcasthttp://www.internationalsocialistnetwork.org/index.php/downloads/282-bradford-leeds-isn-premiere-podcast
here's the second podcasthttp://www.internationalsocialistnetwork.org/index.php/downloads/290-bradford-leeds-isn-podcast-episode-2
A division over identity politics (or 'liberation politics' as it is called in the article) is emerginghttp://www.internationalsocialistnetwork.org/index.php/ideas-and-arguments/organisation/305-notes-on-a-footnote
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Quote:IS Network peeps still haven't been told who has resigned since November, not least those who were on the Steering Cttee., & how many have gone. But I guess transparency always has its limits. I noticed things becoming more opaque as time goes by. The strangely named Politics Conf. in October had no attendance figure, unlike the two previous National General Meetings (86 at founding in April, then 50 in June). The minutes of SC mtgs. now don't even say who attended, & how many were there. And the minutes are politically useless coz contributions by individuals are not attributed. Of course it's progress to tell the public ('the class') that something is going on – unlike the secret CC of the SWP – but please be transparent, to both fellow ISN members if not 'the class': your political reputation is at stake. Remember, the Bolsheviks (& the Mensheviks) never, ever had an internal bulletin. Never. That institution only came about in 1921 – as the civil war was ending. The Solidarity [USA] member Bustelo made all this explicit last March in his 'Lenin Was Not a Leninist': http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=7727 What's particularly troubling is that there's no evidence any ISN member cares. But it is, after all, a network, just like a soccer supporters' club. There's never been an attempt to instigate any collective discipline. Peeps just get together to do whatever, be they as women or disabled, or to make a podcast (worth listening to: Oliver Cromwell Cox in the current one; Cox is all there, but after 1 hr the last 15mins is missing). And if the women's group want to tell anyone else what's happening they do, but there's no requirement upon them, or any other fraction of 'the unity'. Likewise about any branch activity. (Surprisingly there has never been a strategy, with milestones, on branch-building.) It's organisational neoliberalism: laissez-faire, let's act. That's really learning from the class enemy. From the ISN's report of last Saturday's unity mtg. with SocRes, ACI & Wkrs. Pwr. it seems those on top are Tim & Kris, & Tom's left having private chats with Terry. In fact no-one knows if Tom, the Principal, & Me Olde, let alone anyone else, are even still members. So it goes. (Should have added that it is to the ISN's credit to alert its website readers that an opposition has arisen during the ISO's pre-conference period. Those who think it a mistake to mention what's happening in the ISO really have a truncated appreciation of what participatory discussion (& decision-making) is all about. If they could read Russian they would be astonished at what went on in the pages of Pravda pre-1928. Yes, ISN members came out of the SWP, but they live in a quite developed liberal democracy. Learn from the class enemy: open discussion is pretty innocuous, it takes a lot more than talk to upset the regime. But open discussion is essential in any healthy organisation: only the rulers need fear openness – & even in groups of 40 people there are rulers, albeit sometimes subject to re-call.)Podcast #4http://internationalsocialistnetwork.org/index.php/downloads/327-a-letter-from-domestic-extremists-podcast-4
According to this statementhttp://tendancecoatesy.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/international-socialist-network-seymour-and-others-split-over-race-play/Richard Seymour and China Mieville and 6 others, who were characterised as a right bloc, have split from the IS Network.
New podcast episode here;
Quote:Our latest podcast contains contributions from Paris Thompson on the concept of Workers' Government, Brian Collier on Stuart Hall and Javaad Allipoor on the situation in the Ukraine, with much lively discussion on each topic.new podcast episode last weekhttp://internationalsocialistnetwork.org/index.php/downloads/474-letters-from-domestic-extremists-podcast-9and episode 8 from junehttp://internationalsocialistnetwork.org/index.php/downloads/454-letters-from-domestic-extremists-podcast-8and episode 7 from aprilhttp://internationalsocialistnetwork.org/index.php/downloads/386-letters-from-domestic-extremists-podcast-7
Winter 2014/2015 IS Network Bulletin #2 makes for interesting reading for spottershttp://internationalsocialistnetwork.org/index.php/downloads/541-winter-2014-15-isn-bulletin-2
I've noticed that the "Brixton Rebels" facebook page which used to be SWP os now RS21, wherever they fit in:https://www.facebook.com/BrixtonRebels
The official IS Network dissolution statementhttp://internationalsocialistnetwork.org/index.php/ideas-and-arguments/organisation/party-and-class/is-history/544-l8rztheir final minutes discuss the election without mentioning the SPGB and also say they won't be credited for being anti vanguard although Simon Hardy blames anti leadership for playing a part in dissolving the IS Network
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