WE NEED A REVOLUTIONARY ORGANISATION……….

The Tories are coming back, the EDL has put politics back on the streets, the BNP are cleaning up on the white working class vote……….us anarchists are nowhere near organising a coherent movement. Attempts to start a new organisation are doomed as shown by failed Trot initiatives over the last year. I believe we need [...]

‘LADY THATCHER’S BASTARDS’: IAIN SINCLAIR ON CLASS WAR

The London Review of Books for 27th Feb. 1992 had a full front page reproduction from the TinTin ‘Breaking Free’ book and inside a dense two page review of ‘Class War: A decade of disorder’ by Iain Sinclair. There were some purple passages:
Fire-watchers. Flame freaks. Black air groupies. ‘Burn, baby, burn.’ The dialectic is of [...]

EDL BATTERS C18!

The EDL grows ever more difficult to fathom. This post is taken from elsewhere via M.
According to various sources there were between 200-400 people that turned up with for the counter demo against Islam4UK march which was cancelled due to “security reasons”. That number was a mixture of the usual football firm/casuals but also some [...]

RMT CONFERENCE THIS SATURDAY

Well I’m off on Saturday to the RMT organised one dayer on ‘The crisis in working class representation’ – anyone else going. All the speakers apart from Jeremy Corbyn – groan -come from RMT, Socialist Party.,NO2EU  but I go with high hopes! Be a nice change rubbing shoulders with non-anarchists for the day! I fully [...]

THEM MAGICAL MAGYARS

Is there a socialist way of playing football? That is a tactical one – not one based on hardwork and stakhanovite effort? When the English pubic schools started to play football dribbling was the only prized skill and pasing frowned upon as unmanly, unsporting or perhaps even socialist. It ws the Northern working class teams [...]

GEORGE FORMBY : ORDER OF LENIN (NOT!)

George Formby was awarded the ORDER OF LENIN by the Soviet government in 1943. What is les welll known is his refusal to play to segregated audiences during a tour to South Africa with his redoubtable wife BERYL INGHAM:
 In 1946 she was with George on a tour of South Africa, and despite threats from the [...]

OLIVE MORRIS AND THE BRIXTON BLACK PANTHERS AND THE 121 RAILTON ROAD SQUAT

Olive Morris adresses Brixton Black Panther rally in 1970. Olive who died tragically young from cancer aged 27 was a leading light in the UK BLACK PANTHERS MOVEMENT 1967-72 as well as a radical activist in Brixton. Jane Nicholl has pointed me in the direction of the newly set up OLIVE MORRIS ARCHIVE COLLECTION which [...]

SOCIALIST FOOTBALL MANAGERS: CHRIS HUGHTON

There have been many socialist football managers – SHANKLY, FERGUSON, CLOUGH – but only one I know of who wrote a regular column for a leftie group newspaper. Chris Hughton used to write a regular column for the WRP’s daily newspaper NEWSLINE. Hughton seems to be still a solid working class socialist and modest with [...]

THAT SWP LEADERSHIP DEBATE IN FULL….

‘Look at me when I’m talking to ya – you google headed 4-eyed twat’
‘Citizen Smith has made only half a revolution…therefore…….’
Captions please………..

POST OFFICE MANAGEMENT SPEAK

‘Thought we had agreement………..overnight ripped up………puzzled………different agenda at work……….moving goalposts………….ready anytime anyplace( not Kabul Hilton)……..Lord Mandelson great man……..CWU lemmings………suicidal………headless chickens…..Bridge over troubled water……..Simon and Garfunkel……….beer and sandwiches No.10……anytime anyplace( not Waziristan Hoiday Inn express)…….door always open………..draughty in winter……..always by phone( bit boring)…………Adam Crozier great man……..hands dirty…….only one side wants to play ( not Hull FC)………two [...]