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 Wednesday March 19, 2003 17:40 by Left Gossip
 It is reported that the SWP are currently in a state of crisis. There is massive disapointment among their ranks and they are having a financial crisis which could see them go bankrupt. The source of this latest crisis is the discontent among their membership in the past number of weeks. This discontent is due to the fact that post 15 February the leadership told their membership that the anti war movement would be a genuinly mass campaign and local groups will be swelled with hundreds of people joining. This is not what happened, the local anti war groups have had much success but no to the scale that the SWP were predicting. This has lead to much disapointment among the membership of the SWP which has seen a decline in activity levels. The SWP are also in a massive financial crisis. Itis reported that they have stretched themselves with the Socialist Worker going fortnightly. It is rumoured that the SWP may have go bankrupt due to the seriousness of the problem. However London has intervened with a financial plan which includes the provision of free printing by London in conjunction with the SWP laying off one full time employee. Rumour has it that Joe Carolan is due for the chop. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24They still have all the money they made printing porn in the 1970's stashed away.
I'd rather he had a shave!
While the Workers' Party printed banknotes the Swimmers printed porn!
Did someone not tell them that if you print banknotes you can but porn?
It's true Joe 90 is for the chop. Last year thay had to lay off Grace Lally, remember that?
Dont slag Joe like that, Aidan is Joe 90. Cant imagine why they would let Joe go, at least hes an activist.
They have Brid Smith as National Secretary! Imagine that? She hasnt a brain in her head and is pig ignorant to boot. Maybe its positive discrimination, having someone whos feeble-minded in the leadership.
Pat c your one man to talk, your a slob that never leaves his computer or a bar stool in a well know pub near O'Connelly St. I know you may have your differences with the SWP but you could at least show some respect to those active in the workers movement
That the SWP is in financial difficulties is well known.
As an example of this their magazine "Resistance" has folded for financial reasons. Some may have noticed that their collection for the "make Socialist Worker weekly" fund abruptly disappeared too.
Their British operation is in large part funded by a commercial printing operation (up until recently it printed Private Eye). That means that it has some reliable cash. It also means that it could indeed do things like print Irish SWP material for free.
I knew that Grace Lally had headed off to pastures new but I hadn't realised that she had been laid off. I also hadn't heard that another fulltimer was to go. If it's true we should start an Indymedia SWP fulltimer to go sweepstakes. Will they draw lots or will they just get rid of the maddest one (or possibly the least mad one)?
You should have guessed it wasnt from me. Anyway Joe is one of the more likeable membes of the SWP but those comments about Brid are a bit off the wall.
They would hardly put an incompetent person in as National Secretary ( is she the SWP NS?). It wouldnt make sense from their party building agenda.
As I have said in the past, the saving grace of the SWP is their anti-imperialism. I dont hate all trots equally.
I am active against the war. If you actually gave your name people would know if you werent just a booze-sodden trot virtual warrior.
the swp active in the workers movement what a joke! Why is shannon still open to transport babykillers to the gulf if these swp clowns are so active?
Pat c you are not a real anti imperialist. You just don't like the British brand of imperialism. I have yet to see you critisise SF or any in the republican movement for their support from big businedd America. Or indeed for their right wing economic policies that they have implemented when given the chance.
The fact is that imperialism rest on economic foundations. If you had an ounce of politics in you you would know this. The best way therfore to challence imperialism is through challenging capitalism through the workers movement. Something that SF et al refuse to recognise. Why don't you critisise SF for this?
Nationalism is a dead end it only ties workers to their capitalist masters while dividing the movement, are you not stupid enough to see this pat? Of course you are not in any wat active in politics so you would not know this.
Pat c you are the booze ridden virtual warrior. I've asked around and you are not active in the Anti war movement.
You are the one that spends hours on indymedia.
You are the one that never leaves a well known bar on near O'Connell St.
you're the cyber slob so shut the fuck up.
All the work the SWP and anarchist organisations have done in driving on the Irish Anti-War effort is to be absolutely commended.
As an Irish citizen, I say thank you.
Yes the SWP/SP/ISN and others have despite their flaws have done trojan work in the IAWM. But that is not the case for those Anarchists. They have contributed nothing and have not been involved in building for DAy X at all.
What do you think you are achieving here with your fake messages?
It is obvious that the first fake pat c message was by a member of the Socialist Party.
The fact that none of these people will use their own names speaks volumes. The SP originated the attack on the SWP, tried to make it look as if I were joining in and now that they have been uncovered are trying to find an escape route.
You fakes are being found out. You are the virtual revolutionaries.
Pat you seem to have a problem with the SP. The fact is that I am NOT a member of the SP. You are the one making a fool of youself, do you really think that the SP sit around all day hatching plots of how to get at you. If so you've got a serious ego problem.
Pat you have not answered the posting above. Why will you not critisise SF and other republicans?
Pat what makes the above posts "Tots in Trots" as you call us? I'd really like to know as they could be anyone. As a member of the SP I'm not afraid to use my name as you have claimed that we are.
Generally I don’t like to get into this kind of nonsense, but Pat in all honesty through your paranoia against the SP you have given me endless laughter and comical entertainment. In nearly post you put online, there’s something about the SP in it, its comical. In this depressing world situation people need a good laugh.
This whole thread is a load of crap. Someone making up rumours about the SWP, then people personally attacking Pat and the SP. It's what Indymedia should not be like.
Look Joe Carolan is gas. not by intentiion but by accident.
the swp is too top down and associates socialists with being hormonal whining gobsheens advocating the impossible.
if it goes, good. it went in UCD. thank god lally went.
the workers party is dead, the socialist party are too dogmatic, the swp is too hormonal, democratic left is gone.
go get a haircut, join labour, reform it and start some credible radicalism.
Well this particular thread is about the fucking SWP...
The anarchists have been preparing for Day X and last night carried out the first actions against the war. You have to realise that the anti-war movements are (much) bigger then the IAWM and SWP. There is a LOT happening outside that circle as you will see today.
The SP and SY have provided many us with endless hours of fun with their twists & turns on the war.
I wont go into great detail, just point to Domnic Haughs scare mongering about gardai & army firing into crowds and Joe Higgins describing GNAW as virtual warriors at the same time as GNAW was face to face with the cops & ten people were being arrested.
The comments by anonymous people mirror those of SP members.
Shane, I'm sure that you always post under your own name, but the same is not true of some of your comrades. Yiur comrades, have called me a fascist, anti catholic etc, because I disagreed with them on the north.
There are some real embittered anti-irish people on this site. They are put out at any opposition to Brit Impereialism so they try to say i dont oppose US imperialism! Numbskulls!
My record stands for itself. I have opposed US imperialism for 25 years in active left wing politics.
Many of the raving revolutionaries here will be firmly rightwing in a few years time. I've seen so many of you go on to carry on the class war on behalf of capitalism.
I have criticised SFs participation in cutbacks in Stormont and Sligo. Keep repeating the lies it wont get you anywhere.
As for SF getting money from the US, so what? Do the SP, SWP, & others not get money from abroad?
I have on several different threads said that SF should not, imho have met with Bush.
No go away & get a life. I wont be back to this thread.