Workers Solidarity Movement presents: The Corporation

by Curious Thu Feb 10, 2005 15:36

Is this being shown on a Big Screen?

by Danny Coh Bendit Thu Feb 10, 2005 16:01

Used to support all those Left Nationalist Marxist leninist types in El Salvador and Nicaragua!

by Alan MacSimoin - WSM Thu Feb 10, 2005 18:35

LASC is certainly not a WSM front. We merely have rented offices in the same building.

Indeed the WSM has never set up fronts (unlike the SWP's Globalise Resistance or the SP's Youth Against War). Anarchist politics are not compatible with that sort of dishonest carry on.

Sorry to disappoint you.

LASC has its office in the same building, and was there for years before the WSM moved in.

LASC is only mentioned because some of you will have been to their office, and it helps to explain where the WSM office is.

by Danny C Thu Feb 10, 2005 21:37

But prehaps it woulb be better not to use the phrase
"the WSM/LASC" offices as this will only get you into "SF/IRA" kind of trouble.

Anyway, the Dublin Grassroots Network is a WSM front.

by Still Curious Fri Feb 11, 2005 10:48

What type of screen are you using? Is it a large one or will it just be a 20 inch TV screen?

by Joe Fri Feb 11, 2005 13:20

I'd be interested in hearing why you think DGN is a front as if this impression exists it is a problem that should be tackled. I presume your referring to something more than the fact WSM members are involved in it, could you spell it out?

by Very Curious Fri Feb 11, 2005 14:07

What type of screen will the film be shown on?

by Eugene Lamberts Fri Feb 11, 2005 15:36

It will be an innovative impression of the film using hand and shadow puppets.

by Chekov Fri Feb 11, 2005 15:46

So, Danny, are you going to back that up? Or are you just spreading unsubstantiated lies around? You must be a brave and principled individual.

by Extremely Curious Fri Feb 11, 2005 15:48

Are you showing a DVD on a TV or do you have a big screen?

by Chekov Fri Feb 11, 2005 15:55

I think it's a tv, but since I haven't been involved in organising it, I don't know for sure. Maybe it's a tiny projector, maybe it's a huge tv?

by D Fri Feb 11, 2005 17:42

Am I missing something between the lines here re - the big small thing or is it purely a legite question?

by chekov Fri Feb 11, 2005 18:02

I'm missing it too! Maybe it's somebody with poor eyesight?

by R. Isible Fri Feb 11, 2005 20:54

nt

by Mad Antiwar Activist Sun Feb 13, 2005 02:04

To be fair now I dont think that Youth Against War was a front. (does it exist now????) must be invisible if it does

By "front" I mean that a group is controlled by a party covertly.

YAW is not a front in this sense because the SP openly ( at least in their paper ) associate with as part of the party.

I dont see the problem as long as theyre open.

The SWP never do this
The "Irish Antiwar Movement" is the SWP plain and simple
SO is "Globalise resistence"
"Another Europe is possible"
"The civil rights movement"

Notice the utter branding involved here. The idea is to attract the young and the inexperience to be part of the elite "vanguard party" of Lenin

And the SWP never ever claim any connection. Like state agencies you have to dig the info out of them. Basically their control is covered up.
They follow a classic entryist strategy , of recruiting a "periphery"

As virtually every political party in Ireland will not work with them ( including the peace movement) This is why all their fronts fail in the end. But damage is done to the broader movement.

They drive people out of left wing politics because this fills them with despair, cynicism and demoralisation.

Never work with their party, only with the individual members who are prepared to play on a level playing pitch.

by pat c Mon Feb 14, 2005 11:08

well in the end it was just a tv and there were a few technical difficulties but a its a great piece, entertaining as well as educational.
polemics can be fun.