Official optimism gone mad

26Nov10

published in Weekly Worker, 25th November 2011 “I think today’s turnout is amazing,” announced Lindsey German to the assembled anti-war protesters in her trademark style. It was a case of official optimism gone mad: not only was the turnout at the November 20 Stop the War Coalition demo the poorest in years, but Lindsey’s blatant […]

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Poll tax reminiscences

12Nov10

Published in Weekly Worker, 11th November 2011                   At SPEW’s ‘Socialism 2009′ school, Robin Clapp told us how we beat the Tories last time around “Thatcher thought that Neil Kinnock and his followers in the Labour Party were a piece of piss,” reminisced a veteran of the […]

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Tags: anti-cuts, labour party, militant tendency, socialism, socialism 2010, socialist party, socialist party of england and wales, SPEW, the left