tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post4019329385551610837..comments2024-03-29T09:14:53.583+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: Martin Smith Resigns from the SWPPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-1608459512864741532013-07-24T14:22:52.976+01:002013-07-24T14:22:52.976+01:00So, has he resigned or not? I've seen nothing...So, has he resigned or not? I've seen nothing concrete to suggest that this is true and the blogosphere has gone very quiet on the subject. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-82444137943700749312013-07-24T09:09:38.495+01:002013-07-24T09:09:38.495+01:00Yes, the humourless Mr Collins has sadly ruined SU...Yes, the humourless Mr Collins has sadly ruined SU, turning it into a dull echo chamber, and any comment even vaguely off message censored.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-83585355701394728082013-07-23T17:52:33.930+01:002013-07-23T17:52:33.930+01:00Came here to get away from the pompous Mr Collins....Came here to get away from the pompous Mr Collins. Does he really think it necessary to pontificate on every blog can't he just do it on one and let people avoid him there. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-13454184716034501992013-07-23T12:21:22.039+01:002013-07-23T12:21:22.039+01:00I didn't even receive a reply to my resignatio...I didn't even receive a reply to my resignation letter after 23 years of membership. Does that show Martin has better manners than Charlie Kimber?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-27487395695530422662013-07-23T08:37:10.893+01:002013-07-23T08:37:10.893+01:00Should people take heed of Tony Collin's advic...Should people take heed of Tony Collin's advice on how to run a blog? Since running SU the numbers have dropped right off, anyone with a different point of view has been banned, and the regulars have given up. The same half a dozen names appear in each thread and even SWP posts attract few comments compared to the hundreds they used to have.<br /><br />How not to run a blog.brainwashnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-49152212053857374022013-07-22T18:39:15.282+01:002013-07-22T18:39:15.282+01:00All very funny.
Good riddance, as the ISN says.All very funny.<br />Good riddance, as the ISN says.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-33552601059610669622013-07-22T03:58:21.744+01:002013-07-22T03:58:21.744+01:00The latest footage from "bolshevik HQ in Vaux...The latest footage from "bolshevik HQ in Vauxhall". The workers' vanguard respond to Delta's courageous act of self-sacrifice for the greater good of the global proletariat:<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxfWwXg9LgcAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-57506935173129146742013-07-21T23:45:36.052+01:002013-07-21T23:45:36.052+01:00`Sorry for sounding harsh but, as someone who runs...`Sorry for sounding harsh but, as someone who runs a blog'<br /><br />And who clearly would like to run everybody else's blog.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-51058638424475926002013-07-21T21:20:25.451+01:002013-07-21T21:20:25.451+01:00I do hope there is a resignation note, Tony. I won...I do hope there is a resignation note, Tony. I wonder if Charlie Kimber's acknowledgment read something like Smith's terse response to Lindsey German's resignation:<br /><br />"Lindsey,<br /><br />I acknowledge receipt of your resignation and have amended our records accordingly.<br /><br />Please note it is your responsibility to inform your bank to close your Direct Debit/Standing Order.<br /><br />Martin Smith (SWP National Secretary)"Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-87106619159044736292013-07-21T21:17:19.802+01:002013-07-21T21:17:19.802+01:00Anon, yes, you're quite right. I also note the...Anon, yes, you're quite right. I also note the investigation *is* going to proceed. Again, crazy stuff.<br /><br />If an investigation must happen, then it has to be into the culture of impunity and cult-like fawning that allows alleged and actual abuses of power and authority to take place. But we're more likely to get a socialist revolution than see that happen.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-89252660510692536392013-07-21T21:14:20.999+01:002013-07-21T21:14:20.999+01:00I imagine, Piggeries, that the time away to do his...I imagine, Piggeries, that the time away to do his MA and - who knows? - perhaps a PhD will be just long enough for his rehabilitation. I don't know what's going on in bolshevik HQ in Vauxhall, but I can't imagine this parting being anything other than temporary and perfectly amicable.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-20898958296148043422013-07-21T20:45:51.130+01:002013-07-21T20:45:51.130+01:00And Steve Wallis - what's the point of posting...And Steve Wallis - what's the point of posting exactly the same comment on every left blog? I've see it in 4 or 5 places already. <br /><br />Do you believe you're <em>that</em> important that you simply <em>must</em> make sure everyone gets the chance to see what you have to say? <br /><br />Sorry for sounding harsh but, as someone who runs a blog, it's always puzzled me how some people really do seem to think their words are of world-historic importance. Just post them in one place and let people find them!Tony Collinshttp://socialistunity.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-89300746300539207932013-07-21T20:44:32.114+01:002013-07-21T20:44:32.114+01:00Don't be surprised if there's no resignati...Don't be surprised if there's no resignation letter at all. It's not really the way they do things - people who resign in opposition to the CC tend to put out resignation letters, but they may simply have Smith stay as quiet as he's been all year (except for his continued use of his official UAF twitter account).<br /><br />Martin is paid by LMHR - that's how the party has got round things. The leadership's politics have become so debased, they're willing to splash out members' money in partial secrecy just to keep Martin on board.<br /><br />And remember, the Gluckstein's have been officially campaigning to fund a university course of some description for Martin.Tony Collinshttp://socialistunity.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-12056133682305227242013-07-21T19:53:41.970+01:002013-07-21T19:53:41.970+01:00He was never charged with rape, was he? I've ...He was never charged with rape, was he? I've always wondered how he got away with rape.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-4598440617904028712013-07-21T17:15:03.198+01:002013-07-21T17:15:03.198+01:00Perhaps my intervention in the meeting on Stephen ...Perhaps my intervention in the meeting on Stephen Lawrence's racist murder 20 years on at Marxism 2013 set the cat among the pigeons.<br /><br />I referred to the Channel 4 Dispatches/Guardian investigation into a Special Demonstration Squad (police) infiltrator into "the Militant Party united front Youth Against Racism in Europe" as the speaker put it (it was actually Militant Labour, previously the Militant Tendency and now the Socialist Party, but that's nitpicking) who was trying to find dirt to smear Stephen Lawrence's family. The YRE and another "Militant united front" Panther (of black and Asian people) organised the first demonstration to close down the British National Party HQ. I was in Militant Labour at the time and went on that demo.<br /><br />I had a copy of the new book "Undercover" by Guardian journalists Rob Evans and Paul Lewis in my bag and read out front page headlines "They steal identities, they break the law, they sleep with the enemy, the true story of Britain's secret police"<br /><br />I also read part of a paragraph (at the start of page 16): "'It was a shadowy section where people disappeared into a black hole for several years,' recalls one officer who infiltrated the revolutionary Socialist Workers Party in the 1980s."<br /><br />I also talked about a leader of the CWI (which links the Socialist Party to similar organisations around the world) who quoted half a sentence from an internal document during the debate around the setting up of the Scottish Socialist Party at the 1998 European School of the CWI (without naming him). I resigned shortly afterwards due to the position of the British and international organisations' position on the SSP and since I felt, rightly or wrongly, that infiltrators had become dominant as we shrank in size (and preferred to inform others from the outside rather than get expelled).<br /><br />Anyway, at the end of my speech, I just happened to mention Martin Smith alias Comrade Delta (implying that he too was an infiltrator). There were some calls of "Shame!" and someone didn't think that this meeting was appropriate to mention him - but bearing in mind that he was employed by Unite Against Fascism, it was very relevant in my opinion...Steve Wallishttp://thatcheroftheleft.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-86206496608451373912013-07-21T15:59:06.881+01:002013-07-21T15:59:06.881+01:00Point of correction: he's not employed by UAF,...Point of correction: he's not employed by UAF, hasn't been for quite a while.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-9532270234588208232013-07-21T13:54:29.407+01:002013-07-21T13:54:29.407+01:00I was outside Marxism 2013, and I noticed that nob...I was outside Marxism 2013, and I noticed that nobody had seen the slightest sign of Comrade Smith, not even in the darkest recesses of the Institute of Education. <br /><br />He was also conspicuously absent from the conference programme, which, when the SWP is now so depleted as to be hard-pressed to put forward a list of well-known speakers, indicates that his disappearance was planned in advance. <br /><br />I think that this was a 'keeping him out of the spotlight' arrangement rather than an outright excommunication, although this now seems to have changed to a mutual parting of the ways.<br /><br />There was also a rumour going around -- how true or false or in between I have absolutely no idea, but I heard it from two quite unconnected people -- that a couple of SWP veterans were going around asking party comrades to chip in to help finance Martin on an MA course. Presumably they won't have to cough up now.<br /><br />PiggeriesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-52173290983615486382013-07-21T11:26:02.197+01:002013-07-21T11:26:02.197+01:00I think that is the joke :-)I think that is the joke :-)jimboonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-61061745320298862942013-07-21T10:56:14.081+01:002013-07-21T10:56:14.081+01:00I think that's the idea :)I think that's the idea :)Jim Jeppshttp://jimjepps.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-74075578234339825142013-07-21T08:58:24.866+01:002013-07-21T08:58:24.866+01:00It leads to a blank page!It leads to a blank page!Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-6177814141474380732013-07-21T07:24:21.762+01:002013-07-21T07:24:21.762+01:00http://bloggingjbloggs1917.wordpress.com/2013/07/2...http://bloggingjbloggs1917.wordpress.com/2013/07/21/statement-by-the-swp-central-committe-regarding-the-resignation-of-martin-smith/Facing Realityhttp://bloggingjbloggs1917.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com