All political party leaders in ENGLAND went to OXBRIDGE via private school. I am grateful to our Welsh and Scots contributors for pointing out this is not the case in Scotland and Wales and I have taken on board your analysis. Cheers!.
Nick Griffin went to a posh private school then to Cambridge. The fact is [...]
I don’t fucking think so.
Paul Foot was, exceptionally for the SWP, honest about his class background. At meetings across the country he would disarmingly characterise himself as a ‘class traitor’ - resulting in the usual laughter and applause. This amiable self- description has been repeated enthusiastically by SWPers over the years.
He acknowledged it so [...]
Bambery, Foot, Callinicos: The Troterati
CHRIS BAMBERY editor of SOCIALIST WORKER and former NATIONAL ORGANISER of the SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY attended LORETTO private school in Edinburgh. LORETTO is the oldest and poshest private school in Scotland and has close links with the nearby FETTES PUBLIC SCHOOL attended by TONY BLAIR.
Indeed the OLD FETTESIANS and OLD LORETTONIANS [...]
The toff prof
Like all other political organisations in Britain the SWP is led by Oxford educated toffs. But the SWP goes one better by having a super-toff as their intellectual guru.
ALEX CALLINICOS - or PROFESSOR CALLINICOS to the likes of you and me - was born in Southern Rhodesia when white rule was at its [...]
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