Angelo Herndon - You Cannot Kill the Working Class posted:

The trial was set for January 16, 1933. The state of Georgia displayed the literature that had been taken from my room, and read passages of it to the jury. They questioned me in great detail. Did I believe that the bosses and government ought to pay insurance to unemployed workers? That Negroes should have complete equality with white people? Did I believe in the demand for the self-determination of the Black Belt—that the Negro people should be allowed to rule the Black Belt territory, kicking out the white landlords and government officials? Did I feel that the working class could run the mills and mines and government? That it wasn’t necessary to have bosses at all? I told them I believed all of that—and more...
The state held that my membership in the Communist Party, my possession of Communist literature, was enough to send me to the electric chair. They said to the jury: “Stamp this damnable thing out now with a conviction that will automatically carry with it a penalty of electrocution.”
And the hand-picked lily-white jury responded: “We, the jury, find the defendant guilty as charged, but recommend that mercy be shown and fix his sentence at from eighteen to twenty years.”
I had organized starving workers to demand bread, and I was sentenced to live out my years on the chain-gang for it. But I knew that the movement itself would not stop. I spoke to the court and said:
“They can hold this Angelo Herndon and hundreds of others, but it will never stop these demonstrations on the part of Negro and white workers who demand a decent place to live in and proper food for their kids to eat.”
I said: “You may do what you will with Angelo Herndon. You may indict him. You may put him in jail. But there will come thousands of Angelo Herndons. If you really want to do anything about the case, you must go out and indict the social system. But this you will not do, for your role is to defend the system under which the toiling masses are robbed and oppressed.
“You may succeed in killing one, two, even a score of working-class organizers. But you cannot kill the working class...”

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I came up with the idea of a register of goons and their CLPs in case any new joiners wanted someone to go to to get the local lie of the land.

Bexleyheath and Crayford - Rolled Cabbage
Bristol East - Luxury Tent Carpet
Bristol West - mfcrocker, Barry Foster, Pistol_Pete, Rarity
Broxtowe - MikeCrotch
Cotswolds (yes, we do have one) - Yvonmukluk
Cunninghame North/South - mehall ('s partner)
Dulwich and West Norwood - maugrim
Edinburgh Central (s?) - Autonomous Monster
Edinburgh Central, Ipswich - Lord of the Llamas
Enfield Southgate - spiderbot
Glasgow Southside/Central - Niric
Havant - Last Emperor
Hertford and Stortford - Brovine
Hyndburn - Kegluneq
Leeds North East - Irving Washington
Loughborough - feedmegin
Manchester Central - Jakabite
Northampton - superLINUS
North-East Somerset (the long-shot campaign to unseat Jacob Rees-Mogg) - Darth Walrus
Rochford and Southend East - DesperateDan
Salisbury (and Salisbury Momentum, which is now a thing that actually exists) - Wolfsbane
SE Cambridgeshire - Stoic Fnord
Sheffield south east - Cast_no_shadow
Southampton (Test) - waffle, Nova88
St Austell & Newquay - Oh dear me
Stockport Central - Taear
Swansea West - Borrovan
Watford - SpaceCommie

Lightning Knight posted:

Also after discussing it with CB and amongst ourselves, we’ve decided we won’t punish people just for mentioning pissflaps anymore as long as it doesn’t cause an extended derail. What constitutes “an extended derail” is up to interpretation.

Pissflaps is still banned from the thread tho because lol he bad.

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

britain - y/n?

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

britain - y/n?

Julio Cruz posted:

hard n

jabby posted:

So was is my imagination or did the fireworks make a really unsubtle EU flag for a while?

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

britain - y/n?

TACD posted:

Tried to celebrate the new year at midnight and realised I had no idea when it happened because my phone, the radio and the TV all disagreed about the time. This failure of modern civilisation to achieve extraordinarily simple tasks is a good and accurate omen for the year ahead

Guavanaut posted:

Guavanaut posted:

• Latest polls show that more people believe in alien contact from other worlds than believe in the Liberal Democrats

happyhippy posted:

2019.

The Brexit Project was our last, best hope for peace.

A self-contained country 800 miles long, located in neutral territory. A place of commerce and diplomacy for a quarter of a billion humans and aliens. A shining beacon on earth . . . all alone in the night.

It was the dawn of the Third Age of Gammonkind – the year the Great Civil War came upon us all.

This is the story of the last of the British territories. The year is 2019. The name of the place is Brexit 5.