Long term readers may recall "that" TV interview with Socialist Fight leader Gerry Downing after he was expelled from the Labour Party. One on the tiniest of political groups, if not the smallest Downing and his two co-conspirators have had to look for new friends. And they found some in the form of the International Socialist League (R).
Both Downing and the ISL(R) are "breakaway's" from the Workers Revolutionary Party during the eighties when the organisation fell apart following the exposure of Gerry Healy's sexual abuse with women comrades. Numerous groups were formed back then, most of which have disappeared. However a rump WRP does remain and somehow does mange to publish the News Line daily. I have no idea how they manage, finance and circulate it.
However we were treated to the following from the Socialist Fight website:
At its conference in Liverpool on 23 September, 2018 the Socialist Fight Group and the International Socialist League (R) unanimously decided to fuse their two organisations, retaining the name Socialist Fight Group (SFG).
We were quite pushed for time at less than four hours so there was really only time to touch on International Perspectives and some of the more important issues of British Perspectives in any detail. We did not have time to do more than mention the climate change document drafted by Dov Winter.
The conference welcomed two new international supporters, Dov Winter, who lives in Hawaii now, and Wilhelm Speklin, formerly a supporter of the International Bolshevik Tendency in Holland, who sent greetings to the conference, which were read out and applauded (below). These comrades have yet to be properly integrated into the Liaison Committee for the Fourth International, although they are all now on the closed Liaison Committee for the Fourth International (LCFI) Facebook group. We did not have time to discuss international relations in any detail.
The fused organisation now has two branches, one in Liverpool and the other in London. We also expanded the Editorial board of the Socialist Fight magazine by three comrades from Liverpool; Frank Fitzmaurice, John Owen, and Paul Humphreys. It was also decided to produce the Socialist Fight as a 16-page bi-monthly magazine at £1 waged and 50p concessions (benefits and low waged), with balanced coverage of the main class struggle issues in both cities. The prospect of moving to a tabloid format as soon as materially possible was also discussed.
We were quite pushed for time at less than four hours so there was really only time to touch on International Perspectives and some of the more important issues of British Perspectives in any detail. We did not have time to do more than mention the climate change document drafted by Dov Winter.
The conference welcomed two new international supporters, Dov Winter, who lives in Hawaii now, and Wilhelm Speklin, formerly a supporter of the International Bolshevik Tendency in Holland, who sent greetings to the conference, which were read out and applauded (below). These comrades have yet to be properly integrated into the Liaison Committee for the Fourth International, although they are all now on the closed Liaison Committee for the Fourth International (LCFI) Facebook group. We did not have time to discuss international relations in any detail.
The fused organisation now has two branches, one in Liverpool and the other in London. We also expanded the Editorial board of the Socialist Fight magazine by three comrades from Liverpool; Frank Fitzmaurice, John Owen, and Paul Humphreys. It was also decided to produce the Socialist Fight as a 16-page bi-monthly magazine at £1 waged and 50p concessions (benefits and low waged), with balanced coverage of the main class struggle issues in both cities. The prospect of moving to a tabloid format as soon as materially possible was also discussed.
The newly wed comrades talked about the need to relaunch the "Grass Roots Left" to "organise the rank & file against the Trade Union bureaucracy. Relaunch is a bit of an understatement given the report in the February issue of their journal:
The Grass Roots AGM tool place in Birmingham
on Saturday 27 January. The
attendance was less than a dozen, but
important discussions took place and
important decisions were taken.
Trade Union leaders must be "quaking in their boots" (not) with this news.
However readers will be thrilled to know that Socialist Fight now has two branches. One in Liverpool and one in London. A well known "Pabloite" mole has informed that Tony Greenstein may be involved in further "revolutionary regroupment. That'll be three branches with one in Brighton and a couple of co-thinkers in Hawaii and Holland.
Apparently the comrades were not able to get around in 4 hours to discuss the burning issues of the hour such as ending the banning of their journal from Houseman's Bookshop in Kings Cross. No idea why they banned, you can buy all sorts of weird and wonderful stuff there. Might have something to do with their alleged anti-Semitism?
Socialist Fight belongs to the Labour Representation Committee which allows non-Labour Party groups to affiliate providing they do not stand candidates against the party. So Downing the rabid Trotsykist joins a group that also contains the uber-Stalinist pro-North Korean New Communist Party led by the remarkably amiable Andy Brookes.
Meanwhile if the paint has dried you can readaward winning Professor Gerry Downing's article on why Stephen Hawking is wrong: The-Poverty of Philosophy Why Stephen Hawking is wrong on the Big Bang.
Someone wake me up later...
However readers will be thrilled to know that Socialist Fight now has two branches. One in Liverpool and one in London. A well known "Pabloite" mole has informed that Tony Greenstein may be involved in further "revolutionary regroupment. That'll be three branches with one in Brighton and a couple of co-thinkers in Hawaii and Holland.
Apparently the comrades were not able to get around in 4 hours to discuss the burning issues of the hour such as ending the banning of their journal from Houseman's Bookshop in Kings Cross. No idea why they banned, you can buy all sorts of weird and wonderful stuff there. Might have something to do with their alleged anti-Semitism?
Socialist Fight belongs to the Labour Representation Committee which allows non-Labour Party groups to affiliate providing they do not stand candidates against the party. So Downing the rabid Trotsykist joins a group that also contains the uber-Stalinist pro-North Korean New Communist Party led by the remarkably amiable Andy Brookes.
Meanwhile if the paint has dried you can read
Someone wake me up later...
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