Re: [Marxism] Fascist threat in Ukraine?

2014-02-25 Thread Jim Moody
uld understand the revolutionary left (e.g. not of the red/brown variety of the CP of the Russian Federation) assuming there is one of any note? -- Jim Moody (j...@wiht.org) on 25/02/2014 NUJ 024828 Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.ec

Re: [Marxism] 'More "Lars Lih Online": six further studies of Bolshevism'

2014-01-02 Thread Jim Moody
ut thought I'd share. The CPGB website was down, but it's now up again. The link mentioned now works. -- Jim Moody (j...@wiht.org) on 02/01/2014 NUJ 024828 Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: htt

Re: [Marxism] Save the minks

2013-10-18 Thread Jim Moody
less > abundant species than of yore. > Like deer (plural: deer), the plural of mink is mink. NYT needs better proofreaders. -- Jim Moody (j...@wiht.org) on 18/10/2013 NUJ 024828 Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.e

[Marxism] Mark Steel on the SWP UK

2013-03-13 Thread Jim Moody
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 _

[Marxism] Soviet Goon Boy again on the SWP UK

2013-03-11 Thread Jim Moody
://sovietgoonboy.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/order-prevails-in-vauxhall/ -- Jim Moody (j...@redunity.org.uk) on 11/03/2013 Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive

Re: [Marxism] Argo f**k yourself, Agee whiz is what we need

2013-02-25 Thread Jim Moody
t he could have ended up suffering 'extreme prejudice' for doing so. As far as memory serves, it was well received on the left at the time - when there was a left of some substance, of course. -- Jim Moody (j...@redunity.org.uk) on 25/02/2013

[Marxism] Party democracy in Lenin's Comintern - and now

2013-02-21 Thread Jim Moody
27; Party (SWP) raises issues related to the nature of internal democracy in the Communist International (Comintern) during 1919–23, the period of its first four congresses.' -- Jim Moody (j...@redunity.org.uk) on 21/02/2013 ___

Re: [Marxism] Redfriars - the Public School of the Socialist Workers Party

2013-02-17 Thread Jim Moody
tion did not persist, his effectiveness as a meme must be limited. -- Jim Moody (j...@redunity.org.uk) on 17/02/2013 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

[Marxism] SWP CC caves

2013-02-09 Thread Jim Moody
that - in practice, not words. ends -- Jim Moody (j...@redunity.org.uk) on 09/02/2013 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

Re: [Marxism] New possibilities for a realignment of the left

2013-02-03 Thread Jim Moody
flock into their ranks - quite incredible! So it is the lack of democracy - plus quite possibly also a crap program; that is, if the organisation has one (the SWP UK does not) - that can so obviously produce a weak relationship with the working class. That is the elephant in the room that so many on

Re: [Marxism] Paul Le Blanc on the SWP crisis

2013-02-01 Thread Jim Moody
t such an approach, revolutionary organisations are on a hiding to nothing. And, frankly, they deserve to be. -- Jim Moody (j...@redunity.org.uk) on 01/02/2013 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

Re: [Marxism] Platform-fillers who won't work with SWP as is

2013-01-29 Thread Jim Moody
r. And other names > there are serious left intellectuals and writers. Clearly my attempt at irony did not work. The 'platform-fillers' designation merely aimed to express my perception of the cynical SWP view of such speakers and thinkers. -- Jim Moody (j...

[Marxism] SWP opposition: Seymour in Greece

2013-01-27 Thread Jim Moody
tion-seymour-in-greece -- Jim Moody (j...@redunity.org.uk) on 27/01/2013 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

Re: [Marxism] Blog to discuss SWP crisis

2013-01-21 Thread Jim Moody
legitimate: > http://internationalsocialismuk.blogspot.com/ This one was set up by Richard Seymour as a place more appropriate for the current discussions on the SWP than his own Lenin's Tomb. -- Jim Moody (j...@redunity.org.uk) on 21/01/2013 Send li

[Marxism] SWP's zigzags over women's oppression

2013-01-17 Thread Jim Moody
women's liberation. Former national committee member Dave Isaacson sheds light on the not so excellent truth: http://www.cpgb.org.uk/home/weekly-worker/945/swp-and-women-countless-zigs-and-zags-over-womens-oppression -- Jim Moody (j...@redunity.org.uk) on 17/01

[Marxism] illegal SWP faction

2013-01-15 Thread Jim Moody
. Now we have the next stage: an illegal (under the bureaucracy's rules) SWP faction has been set up. Its blog appears here: http://swpopposition.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/an-open-letter-to-fellow-member s-of.html More power to their collective elbow! -- Jim Moody (j...@redunity.org.uk) on

[Marxism] SWP's Tom Walker: Why I am resigning

2013-01-10 Thread Jim Moody
rebel -- Jim Moody (j...@redunity.org.uk) on 10/01/2013 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

Re: [Marxism] Sexual predation and a splitting UK SWP

2013-01-09 Thread Jim Moody
O'Callaghan wrote: > == R > ule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > == > > On 08.01.2013 23:36, Jim Moody wrote: > &g

[Marxism] Sexual predation and a splitting UK SWP

2013-01-08 Thread Jim Moody
tions already in evidence. National Secretary, Martin Smith, has been accused of being a sexual predator, with a session at the SWP's recent conference taking a report of a rape allegation. One commentary is here: http://www.2ndcouncilhouse.co.uk/blog/2013/01/06/misogynists-and-the-left/ -- Ji

Re: [Marxism] young men trouble again (shooting incident)

2012-12-21 Thread Jim Moody
Afghanistan and drone murders of men, women, and children in Pakistan. -- Jim Moody (j...@redunity.org.uk) on 21/12/2012 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