Stop the war coalition
(for all the formality of this movement it should never the less be an interesting event with a fair amount of people)
speakers include tony benn and george monbiot
also, where abouts is bournbrook?
Sep 20 2004 18:39
Sep 21 2004 09:35
hello v, might try and get to that at the irish centre, cheers. bournbrook is down the bristol road, virtually opposite birmingham university, dead easy to find. i went there saturday to the open meeting, it looks a really positive place and there was a good representation of the community there i felt, not just a few crusties! 
lol, only kidding. hopefully i'll be able to get my dj classes there up n running.
Sep 21 2004 22:52
there is also some talk about chomsky a week or two later. will post details tomorrow
Sep 22 2004 11:57
Chomsky?!
and the Swpies?!!!!!!
What an injustice - hope he exposes the self serving wankers. Ger Francis needs life insurance pretty quickly! 
Sep 22 2004 17:41
Yrwenot3? wrote:
Ger Francis needs life insurance pretty quickly!
Sep 25 2004 19:07
you know ger francis?
Sep 26 2004 14:38
do a search on Indymedia or a corporate search engine and you too could 'know' Ger Francis.
In Birmingham, Ger Francis ex-SWPie full time employee is still renowned for his personality disorders and his ability, virtually single-handed to split the anti-war movement in Birmingham in order to exclude working class socialists like Steve Godward and more secular activists from the South Asian community. Ger and his cronies also tried sometimes unsuccessfully to hi-jack grass roots activism like the S26 collective and other related stuff. He's got this shite Midas touch, so much so I think I recall he was denounced as a liquidationist by none other than the Central Committee of the SWP. Some of the left in Brum have also questioned whether he's on Special Branch's or some other tentacle of the secret state's pay roll because of his destructive history.
Other people blame the christian brothers at his seminary who could have been a bit too 'hard' on Ger in his youth...
He's an A one example of a sad, deluded professional Trot parasite.
Anyway how did it go? Did they manage to hijack and distort Chomsky and Ben? Did that condescending prick Rees tell the Muslim community to be afraid...very afraid?
What are they feeding people now in Brum, now that they haven't got the election to push?
Sep 26 2004 21:18
I only met ger a couple of times, he was the one who signed me up to the SWP (dont worry, a long time ex member now!). But i really wouldnt have had him down as a special branch operative! Seemed nice enough, but as i say i only met him a couple of times.
Didnt make it to the meeting, hit the pub instead.
Sep 26 2004 21:25
fcuking 'ell not another ex-swpie cum anarchist 
Did you have to sleep with him as part of your initiation or did you go for Old Mudder Hubbard? 
Sep 29 2004 19:42
hey i was young and naive, thought the swp was something subversive and exciting, but shit, if mi5 had an operative in the organisation, are they more subversive than thought, or are m15 just very intrusive? sorry thinking out loud, fucking stupid question!
sorry, thats this friday, not wednesday,