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ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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Jedit posted:

Yeah, what the Labour Party really needs is some nationalism to go with the socialism.

What if we did national bolshevism but instead of Nazi firebrands we just have a man who is a jaw attached to some wallpaper

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ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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franco posted:

I'll give the virus one thing: I'm furloughed and my work has an online "hub" thing that was mainly used for people getting rotas/booking holiday and the like before this all kicked off. It also has a facebook-lite where we're being encouraged to "stay in touch!" and the "inspirational" memes and shite that people are posting is revealing utter bellends that I didn't even detect in real life. Very helpful.

I take the furlough very seriously so I'm not even looking at hilarious minion memes on the work Facebook group

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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forkboy84 posted:

Personally I don't think there's any value in pretending any strongman wrapping themselves in a red flag should uncritically be taken as my ally but my politics are closer to anarchism than anything else these days & I know what you think about that so I doubt we'll agree on this. But the cynical politics where "the enemy of the US is my ally" has done absolutely gently caress all good for the left. It is simultaneously possible & in fact desirable to be morally consistent on condemning US imperialism & Chinese or Russian imperialism, not because of how some liberal with a boner for foreign intervention will react but because it is in fact the right stance to take.

Maduro is a poo poo. He is less of a poo poo than Guaido would be but that's a spectacularly low bar to set. It's not conceding any ground, it's just where I stand. Maduro is not good, but if the US gets his way he'll be replaced by someone who does an even worse job because they will be in a long, rich vein of US backed free market fundamentalists in South America & that'll be a disaster for the poor there.
To be anti imperialist you have to offer critical support to dictators, strongmen and incompetents, which means supporting them uncritically

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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CGI Stardust posted:

Labour has released the 7 Core Principles by which it will provide good, unifying opposition during the crisis



I like the little blocks of colour. They've won my vote.

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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Lol if they cut the furlough support enough I'll probably just lose my job. I'm absolutely bricking it right now

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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It'll never get that far now that any crowd of any kind can be preemptively dispersed

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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Jedit posted:

I'm right behind sacking her for buying a Galaxy S20 Ultra. What a waste of money.

Samsung make good phones

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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Paperhouse posted:

Can someone really be sacked for that?

I know the UK is a grim dystopia nowadays but I thought we had ok employment protection laws and that it was actually not that easy to boot someone from their job

I guess she had just started working there so maybe she had a probationary period, but it still seems weird

They probably have a ~social media policy~

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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Jose posted:

lol cool i'm now on unpaid leave or possible furlough but the furlough will be 80% of minimum wage

Careful not to get addicted

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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I just drank a flensburger to celebrate

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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only abolishing the nation removes the possibility of inherently national fascism imo. The working class has no nation.

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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What if Iraq but actually everyone would definitely welcome us as liberators?

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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Also it's the entire world

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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Guavanaut posted:

The best way to defeat fascism would be to have properly armed the anarchists in Spain.

Or to have not armed the Spanish communist party

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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Comrade Fakename posted:

Ronya quoting themselves quoting a big chunk of untranslated French text which the significant majority of us probably can’t even read might be the most Ronya thing ever.
Ronya just wants us all to know that he's very clever.

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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Coohoolin posted:

Speaking of Wings, if anyone fancied helping me boost this tweet, that would be much appreciated.

https://twitter.com/KlezmerRouge/status/1260298954517987330?s=19

Incredibly good @ there

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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It can't be that hard to do a bit of dusting in between making GBS threads out bad takes

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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We need to let Labour die and concentrate on the real fight, the fight inside the SPGB

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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Corbyn was an accidental interlude of interesting leadership in a history with very few bright spots.

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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Got to get your hands dirty if you want that national liberation

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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I hope Vitamin P finds some peace

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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feedmegin posted:

Are you sure? *sings a quick round of Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika*


Did anyone else do a weird music thing in primary school where you had a little songbook and there was a tape you sang along to? I remember this was the first song. Good times

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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The real king of confectionery is those sesame seed bars. Just a ton of sugar and sesame seeds, good poo poo.

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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We just need a touch more fascism

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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Re: Galloway
https://mobile.twitter.com/georgegalloway/status/1237447810737491969
He's a shithead

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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Bardeh posted:

A month more furlough for me! :11tea:

I'm home til the end of September and the uni has announced they're looking at voluntary severances. Not liking the way this is going

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ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

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Darth Walrus posted:

Democratic centralism tends to be an utter mess whenever and wherever it's enacted, though. See also: literally any Trotskyite party.

Just all Leninoid groups really.

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