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Comedian Mark Steel, formerly a member of the SWP for 28 years, deals in his inimitable way with the SWP UK's current crisis: 'It shouldn't matter. It really shouldn't matter, should it, what goes on in the Socialist Workers Party. Their membership is roughly the average home gate at Mansfield Town. By the time I left them, in 2007, the most common comment I heard about them was 'Oh. Are they still going?' the way you might refer to Bernard Cribbins.' continues here: http://marksteelinfo.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/oh-good-lord-what-has-the-swp-gone-and-done-now/ Notes: Mansfield Town is a soccer club in one of the lower English football divisions. Bernard Cribbins has been a character actor since the 1960s. Basil Fawlty is the John Cleese character in the much-rerun 1970s tv series 'Fawlty Towers'. -- Jim Moody (j...@redunity.org.uk) on 13/03/2013 ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com