KAZ
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Howdy! Please get this matter in proportion. It's difficult enough to get folk out for a sensible demonstration against the real enemy – capitalism and its wretched old Etonian reps. A demo against this would be one tiny group of old folks shaking their fists at another tiny group of old folks, cussing each other out about collectivisation and a hundred other things that happened before anyone was born. Youngies looking on with a wtf. As I have said their emphasis is on activism (rent strikes, trade union struggles) rather than party politics. Do you not like activism? (It's no socialism – but…). Any response other than a fairly polite review would be entirely inappropriate. – KAZ
Howdy!Yes. Well. Pickets. Press releases. My word!There were less than twenty people at the launch, all appeared to be well known to the organisers. I would say like our display it was primarily aimed at members (or whatever the MML has). Although they intend to move the display round the country, I would say it requires a certain degree of understanding of the period. Not sure how it would go down with the kiddies. Some one brought this up at launch.Subject matter was mainly labour movement" (activism including trade union) rather than specifically 'socialist', with few references to political parties (those to the BSP largely inaccurate – surprising given that the writer of the text is actually a professor of labour history: academics? meh!) . About one each to Lenin and the Bolshies (some sort of pop group?) and maybe a couple to the CP. All offhand. So the omission of ourselves was certainly not out of order.12 panels: 1. Timeline. 2/3. General about war. 4-6. Red Clydeside and the shop stewards movement. 7-11. Women activists (Mary Macarthur, Sylvia Pankhurst, Helen Crawfurd, Mary Barbour). 12. Anti-war movements.Very slick appearance. Although they had lottery funding (!) it came out fairly cheap. Big seven foot printed panels which rolled up into cannisters. £60 a go. Worth considering for our use – but since permanent would have to be general. Geezer used photoshop to do the layout.Datzboutit.KAZ
Howdy! I must be one of the few SPGBers to have actually visited the John Buckle Centre, even though it is only about 10 minutes away from no. 52. I think it is rather unfair to describe the RCP(ML) as a nutty sect. Apart from a rather strange obsession with North Korea, their politics are fairly orthodox Left and certainly less strident and self-obsessed than some of the Trots and the ethnic India 'Maoists' of Southall. I was warmly received on my visit and the individuals I met and dealt with were certainly less nutty than most of the SPGB folks I encounter on my London forays. I am always surprised how much these Leninist groups resemble our own. If they are a sect, what are we?
