SWP Links to Various Nutter Groups
Sep 4 2007 00:51
Gimme some, please:)
I'm going to bed as it's nearly 2, but when I awake on the morrow I hope to see lots of links to websites. You know all those crazy left-wing and Islamic groups they bum so much.
I thank you.
Sep 4 2007 10:45
#2
it's weird, you completely forget the SWP exist when you a) leave uni and/or b) stop hanging around activists. i think one of Muqtada al-Sadr's men was a speaker at one of the anti-war (sic) rallies...
Sep 4 2007 19:09
#3
This is good stuff, anymore?
Sep 4 2007 19:19
#4
Joseph K. wrote:
it's weird, you completely forget the SWP exist when you a) leave uni and/or b) stop hanging around activists. i think one of Muqtada al-Sadr's men was a speaker at one of the anti-war (sic) rallies...
I think it's more because they're in a death spiral at the minute. They don't really have links to dodgy groups so much as they'll support anything, it's not like islamic groups reciprocate.
Sep 4 2007 21:28
#5
I liked the "We are all Hezbollah", or was that Respect?
At least theyve got a sense of humour!
Sep 4 2007 22:35
#6
They organise with MAB who apparently are linked to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. I posted awhile back about a SWP meeting where Yvonne Ridley basically promoted Jihad. They didnt condemn the appalling attack on Bali or the hostage killing by the Chenchens, I think if you research it far enough back I dont think they have condemned many 'oppressed group' militants who target other workers or opressed groups.
Definitely a possibility that they are dying, despite having a Respect council, I think the SWP have three members and only one whose active, and a couple of years ago they had three possibly five times that amount. I hope class struggle anarchism fills the vacuumm, but at the moment Im not so sure.
Sep 5 2007 06:21
#7
oh, didn't they march with serbian fascists against the bombing of yugoslavia? not sure where i read that, perhaps the aufheben 'phenomenal anti-war movement?' article...
Sep 5 2007 06:34
#8
Best. Article. Ever.
I gave it to an anti-war campaigner friend who asked me what was so wrong with the SWP. It didn't work, but still...
Sep 5 2007 08:53
#9
Joseph K. wrote:
oh, didn't they march with serbian fascists against the bombing of yugoslavia? not sure where i read that
Er, I don't know the details of this, but while serbian fascists are nobs, you'd think that they would also oppose the war that happened to be bad. I mean there might've been a couple of saddam supporters in the recent anti-war demos, doesn't mean anything...
Sep 5 2007 08:57
#10
i've looked and it's not in the aufheben article, i'm looking around for the source now. iirc the implication was they co-ordinated with them somehow, rather than a couple of them turned up at a public demo of thousands, but i can't substantiate any of this atm so i'll try and find the reference
edit: can't find where i read it so i'll retract that one - especially as John says mere marching on the same demo establishes nothing, co-operation would need to be shown.
on Sadr though:
Socialist Worker wrote:
One highlight of the rally was the appearance of Sheikh Zagani, foreign affairs spokesperson for Moqtada al-Sadr, the radical Iraqi political leader and Shia cleric.
http://www.socialist worker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=8545
Sep 5 2007 09:16
#11
Telling people to vote for New Labour upto at least a couple of years ago should count.
Choppychop!