jondwhite
Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
An open letter to brand from an RBS workerhttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/disgruntled-rbs-worker-writes-hilarious-open-letter-to-russell-brand-after-anticapitalist-publicity-stunt-leaves-him-hungry-9930135.html
alanjjohnstone wrote:Will you, perhaps via the election committee, be informing them we will have a candidate standing in Lambeth and that it has been an ongoing strategy for ourselves to contest this constituency. Perhaps reminding them that if they are contemplating not going up against the Green Party, there is even more reason not to undermine a genuine socialist party's campaign.The LU in Scotland seems even in more disarray than the party nationally.I know this isn't suggesting we alter where we stand but just to point out the election committee (as with the rest of the party) should be acting strictly in accordance with 'That as all political parties are but the expression of class interests, and as the interest of the working class is diametrically opposed to the interests of all sections of the master class, the party seeking working class emancipation must be hostile to every other party'. This includes Left Unity as the following makes clear.'The Companion Parties of the World Socialist Movement, therefore, enter the field of political action determined to wage war against all other political parties, whether alleged labour or avowedly capitalist'It wouldn't be appropriate through a nudge and wink to ask Left Unity not to stand against us.
I don't understand the leap from 'we shouldn't appeal to Russell Brand' to 'we shouldn't bother to publish the Standard'?
Wouldn't we be better off delivering a talk at Fête de Lutte ouvrière, in May?http://communism.wikia.com/wiki/La_f%C3%AAte_de_Lutte_Ouvri%C3%A8re
Haven't really been following this but Louis Proyect comments on Podemoshttp://louisproyect.org/2014/12/14/parlez-vous-francais/
Quote:The fact that Podemos has reached millions of Spaniards while self-declared vanguard formations largely speak to those already “in the know” about Lenin and the Russian questions should tell us that we are on the brink of a new period in the class struggle, one in which the socialist movement will be rebuilt on 21st century realities. It is about time.I have to agree with Gnome on this one.Rhetorical similarities is not the same as a sincere specific ideological commitment. So far I've not heard much that you wouldn't hear from the likes of Green left for example.Here's a question though, does/ should the party twitter account follow Russell Brand?Also what is an anti-Leninist Stalinist? A Stalinist who agrees with the Kautsky interpretation of Lenin and rejects it?
I watched it and call a slim victory for Farage. It was a successful panel in terms of entertainment. One female audience member insisted on shouting 'racist scum' at Nigel Farage in an SWP type heckle. It didn't do her any favours or Brand as he tried to focus on attacking Ukip only.Labour, Tory and journalist (The Times?) tried to out-ukip ukip and preach tough on immigration. Audience weren't unreceptive to this and the Lab-Tories sensed this. I think it showed Brand is not without opponents, in particular one man in the audience asked him why he didn't stand which wasn't answered well at all. Brand wasn't used to opponents or good at dealing with them like Farage either.
Here is a podcast from BBC Radio from last February on 'The Philosophy of Russell Brand'http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03srj6m
