Darren redstar
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There is a difference, the three teenagers stopped by Turkish police on the way to join ISIS were released on bail after return to Britain. Silhan Ozcelik, is charged under the terror acts and remanded in custody for trying to join the Kurdish resistance to ISIS
I could add quite a bit more. Birchall may have translated the final verse of the international, but the swp never sang more than the first verse. To know more was definitely considered suspect. If one was known to have read anyone outside of the party's approved authors was a definite no-no. Even reading Marx or Engels, beyond the accepted classics was rather frowned upon.birchall, like widgery, and foot were in a privileged position within the swp. They were able to flout the rules which constrained the rank and file of the comrades. ( Foot would chain smoke on the stage throughout meeting which were strictly no smoking for everyone else). Contributing to, or debating with, the journals of other groups was an expellable offence, unless you were a 'Star', then do as you wish.Birchall has broken with his old party, but not with the mentality that kept him in for so long.
It was that slogan that first attracted me to the swp. It was their complete failure to have anything to do with it that drove me away.
There are reports in the papers of police seeking the names and addresses of people buying copies of Charlie Hedbo from newsagents.
It has been suggested that Hitlers need the subdue the uppity Greeks postponed his assault into Russia to too late in the year, one wonders whether Merkel will make the same error? More seriously, the way in which our rulers are driving us to war, almost without any questioning, is deeply disturbing.perhaps because it doesn't fit the war for oil/ war on Islam narratives which seem to pass as explanations of inter capitalist conflict on the Left these days.
I have assumed that once the socialist party began to gain the electoral support to begin winning seats, we would have reached a critical mass of members and supporters across the working class, understanding of socialism, and enthusiasm for it would increase expondentially, with societal and industrial effects; such as the auto collectivisation of workplaces and of social care provision. Our MPs would be a majority in a relatively short time after the first ones were elected.of course, nothing can be expected to remain within one nations borders: if a hundred years ago news of the Bolsheviks coup could sweep across the world, think of the inspirational affect of a peaceful democratic revolution in a world where capitalist technological innovation has truly made one.
Reading this weeks weakly working letters page, one really gets the taste of the SPGBs description of Trotskyism as an amalgam of reformism and Leninism. The critics of Syriza spare no prisoners in condemning the reformist illusions of Syriza, and instead offer their own set of reformist illusions.
Their scottish Mep was in the TV the other day, made some not incorrect criticisms of the SNP and scottish nationalism in general. The SNP spokeswoman was incandescent with rage. Basically a win win.
It's the front group of the remnants of the British SWPs supporters in Greece. Once one of the largest such groupings outside the uk. It was ripped apart by the machinations of the British leaders determination to remain top dogs. They formed their opposition to syriza after it refused to acknowledge their natural role as the leadership of the proletariat, and so, bitterly denounce the reformist syriza for not adopting their (virtually identical) set of reforms.
“If my good friend Dr. Gasparri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch,”Francis said, throwing a pretend punch his way. “It’s normal. You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others"looks like the present Pope, for all his apparent radicalism, has the true spirit of the inquisition in his veins.
