My expulsion from the SWP has been ratified by conference.

I'm taking a few days to let it sink in, to collect my thoughts etc and will write something here soon.

Thx for all your support. I'm out but not down.

From Clare (the autonomist, renegade, guevarist, dilletante, spawn of the devil)

[Posted with iBlogger from my iphone ]

But I forgot thes best one:SCAB! Alex has added a few more below...

Stitch up?

Having been involved in numerous 'Governance Reviews', Policy
Committees and Democracy Commisions etc etc this cartoon brings it all
back.

I really should attend the policy committee mtgs in my housing block.

Oooh, I feel a Mutiny coming on...

Although it is capitalism; the wars, the system, the bosses etc, and not mosquitoes, that i want to cause a mutiny over.

State the bleeding obvious

I know it looks like a razor but this lovely, ergonomically designed state-of-the-art piece of equipment is actually a vegetable peeler. Mind you, either one could be potentially fatal if used incorrectly so I am so thankful to the kind manufacturers for warning us of any impeding danger.

On a more serious (no really) note, I actually want to recommend this lovely friendly item.

When I worked in restaurant kitchens I actually really enjoyed peeling carrots-i can speedpeel which made me VERY popular! But the trouble with most peelers is that they are only designed for use in one direction only. This one, however, clever little thing, has a swivel head for use left handed, right handed, and either horizontally or vertically (i personally prefer the blade the other way round to in this photo-it makes it easier to peel quickly).

And the blade is made from non-rusting silicon so will not blunt and hence last for years .

Great, fab...

So, hope you are all now inspired to rush out and buy this beautiful thing.

Throw eggs at griffin game. Eggsellent shot comrades.

http://extras.thesun.co.uk/flash/nick_griffin/shoot.html

I'm a bit slow on this story but...

On tuesday BRITISH National Party leader Nick Griffin was forced to abandon a press conference outside Parliament when demonstrators pelted him with eggs ( A SOAS .

Chanting “Off our streets, Nazi scum”, two hundred activists chased him down the street as his bodyguards bundled him into a car.

We built this demonstration primarily through twitter and texts. The info reached a T&G Union meeting in the area who promptly concelled the meeting and joined the protest. 

We all met at the tube because it is illegal to demonstrate or even gather outside the houses of parliament without prior warning.  Covering up our Love Music Hate Racism T-shirts and hiding our placards, along with all the trade union officials in suits, we did not look like a usual demonstration.  We walked slowly and quietly towards the press conference to not arouse suspicion and decended upon them. 

When we got close we ripped open our jackets to reveal our anti-fascism t-shirts, shoved our banners in the air and walked towards him chanting 'Nazi scum, off our streets'. 

He was clearly taken by surprise, not least when a SOAS student landed an egg directly on his face (fucking brilliant to watch!). 

the support from passers by was amazing. All the passengers in the open window big yellow duck bus/boat cheered loudly out the window as we chased him up the street.

Nick Griffins nasty thug security lashed out true to form smashing one woman protester squarely in the face.

He responded to our protest by calling us a bunch of 'lazy students, lecturers and parisitic trade union hardcore labour supporters'!!!

I received a message from someone who said 'I understand he was only pissed off because you didn't separate the whites first.' Another eggstremely eggsellent comment Peter!

Watch Sky news video HERE

And some more great coverage at UAF North London Blogspot HERE

SOAS smash the BNP

Party political broadcast from bonkers Joe!

Desperate recruiting tactics from the HM Forces

HMForces’ Top 11 Reasons to Date a Soldier

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Queen's Guard, Buckingham Palace

- HMForces Staff

A woman will always feel secure with a soldier around them. Find out why a soldier leads the charge for a woman’s heart!

1) They always wear the right protection 
2) They can fire hundreds of rounds before getting tired 
3) They nearly always follow orders from their superiors 
4) They know how to wash, iron and mend their own clothes 
5) Keeping fit gives them real staying power – and the muscles to match! 
6) They’re not afraid of deep insertion ops 
7) Impeccable marksmanship 
8) They don’t get lost in the dark 
9) Always ready for action 
10) They like it rough and tough 
11) The uniform! 

Don't believe me? See it HERE

Statebook-beware, they're after you...

http://www.statebook.co.uk/index.html

Hippy burfday Karl Marx

hope the recession is giving you the bumps :-)

Schools meant for ‘teaching things’, a minister tells MPs

Read this and other hilarious headlines of the fantastic Financial Times mock-up which was handed out at the demo. Printed on salmon pink paper it was so realistic I actually thought it was the FT!

Read it HERE

I'm not doing nothing, honestly...

As you are well aware, recently I have been trying to do 'nothing', especially activism.

Pondering upon this, whilst trying to do my essays, I have discovered that not only is doing nothing practically impossible (ie how on earth can an activist switch off completely?) but, also, philosophically/biologically it cant be done. Has anybody ever written on this subject? Perhaps Alan Badiou? I would be interested to read.

Nothing, even in its state of being a big fat zero, is still doing something; not only to itself in whatever form it is ie lying on the piece of paper or being spoken out aloud, but also to the thing that receives said information; the person, animal, mineral etc. The point being that it hits the senses is one way or another.

To do nothing is to still to consume; oxygen for example, is still to interact and transform the material world around us; oxygen into carbon dioxide, and, to do nothing is, therefore, always doing something. We, as individuals, are never ever free-floating; we participate in the material world around us whether we like it or not.

All I can say is, in the words of my son, 'i not doing nuffin' forever...

Long live optimism.

Just found wikipage that explains how to do something nothingly but...

George Galloway talksport : Jews have the rights over Palestine because...?

thank you jon Stewart-Gaza and Obama

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c

Strip Maul

Barack Obama Interview
John McCain Interview

Sarah Palin Video
Funny Election Video

Go to http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml? videoId=213380&title=strip-maul if the video doesnt work

Lenin & the Party part 3

Excellent animated video recording of Tony Cliff, the founding member of SWP from notthe BBC

Why do we need a revolutionary party? Marx said "the emancipation of the working class is the act of the working class". But, at the same time, there exists a contradiction. That is: the ruling ideas are in society are the ideas of the ruling class.

How do we overcome these contradictions? Who are strikers fighting against? What can and should revolutionaries do to intervene?

Part one can be found here...thanks to notthebbc

Part two HERE

Channel 4's Alternative Christmas Message from Ahmadinejad

Play the 'Throw a Shoe at Bush' game HERE-hilarious...

Play the 'Throw the Shoe at Bush' game HERE...

And another slightly harder one HERE...

And a brilliant Norwegian one HERE...



Protest against the arrest of shoe-throwing Muntadar Al-Zaidi

Called by: Stop the War Coalition


Date: 19 December 2008
Time: 13:00 - 14:00
Location: US Embassy
Grosvenor Square
London, United Kingdom

Media Workers Against the War, and the International Federation of Journalists have called for the immediate release of Muntadar Al-Zaidi, the journalist who hurled his shoes at George Bush in protest at his bloody occupation. Al-Zaidi has not been seen since he was arrested. The BBC reports he has been severely beaten.

The swift incarceration of this journalist contrasts sharply with the treatment of war criminals Bush and Blair. Their decision to go to war in 2003 has led to the deaths of up to a million Iraqi civilians.

Muntadar Zaidi's life is now in great danger. Not even his family know his whereabouts. We must speak out for the right of Iraqis to protest this criminal occupation.

Supported by Media Workers Against the War, Iraqi Democrats Against the Occupation and Stop the War Coalition.

All welcome, please forward widely.

Ever tried to claim benefits?

Tim Evans - Do you want some?

Fucking brilliant marking scheme...Markers award students for writing obscenities on GCSE papers

Write ‘f*** off’ on a GCSE paper and you’ll get 7.5%. Add an exclamation mark and it’ll go up to 11%.

"Pupils are being rewarded for writing obscenities in their GCSE English examinations even when it has nothing to do with the question.

One pupil who wrote “f*** off” was given marks for accurate spelling and conveying a meaning successfully."

I should get at least 100% then! How brilliant though-i guess if these are the only words a student writes then we have to refer to not the word itself but what it signifies-a big bugger off to shitty school and their crap examination systems.

My son's class is constantly being put into groups and told to compete with each other to see who can finish the set work the quickest...now they all refuse coz they hate competing against each other. His Maths teacher has promised the highest scoring group a trip to Oxford Uni: "great," they said "take us to a place that we know we will never get into just to rub our noses in it"! Smart kids-smarter than most of the idiots who come out of Oxford anyway...

He is told constantly that if his homework is not up to scratch he will FAIL, if his spelling is incorrect he will FAIL, if his class mates are not up to the standard of the teacher they will all FAIL and be withdrawn from the course. The teahcer has said he will not accept not getting 100% pass marks. In a system where teachers are also on trial, pitted against each other and entered into league tables i guess he is worried that he will FAIL.

A big EFF you to competition and league tables.

Read more here

Hitler's BNP membership gets leaked