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Nov 17, 2019
11/19
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Mark Thomas
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Written in 2003 in part a reaction to the antics of the SWP (Socialist Workers Party) inside the then campaign against the Iraq war (under the SWP's front group Stop The War Coalition or SWTC for short). Mark Thomas comically lays out the problems with the leftist group, namely its conservatism, its uncooperative attitude to other radical groups, its constant emphasis on party building and its hostility to any form of spontaneity which it can't ultimately control.
Topics: SWP, Trotskyism, Socialist Workers Party, Vanguard party, Stop the War Coalition
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Dec 5, 2008
12/08
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Ady Cousins
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Moazzam Begg speaks to an audience of around 100 people at Goldsmiths' University London. The meeting was organised by Lewisham Stop The War Coalition http://www.stopwar.org.uk
Topics: Iraq, Guantanamo, Bagram, Afghanistan, Iraq, Islam, jihad, peace, STWC, injustice, torture,...
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May 23, 2020
05/20
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Platypus Affiliated Society
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On May 23rd, 2020, the Platypus Affiliated Society hosted a panel titled "What is capitalism, and why should we be against it?" PANEL DESCRIPTION: The present is characterized not only by a political crisis of the global neoliberal order but also by differing interpretations of the cause of this crisis: capitalism. If we are to interpret capitalism, we must also know how to change it. We ask the panelists to consider the following questions: - What is capitalism? - Is capitalism...
Topics: capitalism, chris cutrone, dick howard, shane mage, chris nineham, leo panitch, platypus, platypus...
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May 15, 2020
05/20
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Alexander Baron
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This page contains a ZIP file which includes all my contributions to THE LATEST NEWS as saved to my hard disk. I ran out of space for tags, so here they are: all of them: Abby Martin, African eugenics, Agatha Christie, Al Stewart, Aldara, Alexander Economou, Alexander Litvinenko, Alexia Thomas, Allen Toussaint, Anjem Choudary, anti-discrimination laws, anti-smoking propaganda, aquaponics, Austerity, Babel bike, Bahar Mustafa, Barry Honeycombe, Basic Income, Ben Fellows, Bevis Frond, Bic Runga,...
Topics: Abby Martin, African eugenics, Agatha Christie, Al Stewart, Aldara, Alexander Economou, Alexander...
