SWP activist being paid for out of GR funds
Dan | 11.02.2002 17:54
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GR pays for SWP
11.02.2002 18:10
Ivor the Engine.
Questions
11.02.2002 18:27
GR supporter
Guy Taylor
11.02.2002 18:30
Interestingly enough, it said in that article that he said he was an EX organiser for the SWP! In fact he is still an SWP member and an activist for them in GR. Talk about being economical with the truth!
John
Guy Taylor gets about £500 pm from GR
11.02.2002 18:46
Dan
grow up
11.02.2002 18:49
so what if someone who organises for Gr is in the swp? youve got a right to do that. so have they...or are you "officially" against communism.
now stop moaning and get on with your struggle mate.
richard
To "GR Supporter"
11.02.2002 19:00
The amount of hostility that you see directed to the SWP is because they use secret, covert, under-handed methods to infiltrate groups which have mass appeal. Their track record is one of great success in doing this, but little success in building a movement with any chance of accomplishing real change.
(Add to that that when you do read their stated policies they are complete "dictatorship of the proletariat" authoritarians and you have a group of people that don't deserve the time of day from you.)
Democratic Activist
What are you talking about Richard?!?!
11.02.2002 19:01
I'm a Communist and a Trotskyist if you must know, so I don't know what the communist point is about. I think you may have got me mixed up with someone else.
And for your information I spend a large part of my life organising for and going on demos, including helping GR demos. But anyway, the point is that I'm in GR and don't like the fact that an SWP organiser is being give 50% of its funds without any consultation what so ever (not that someone who organises for GR is in the SWP!). All I want is for GR to be a democratic organisation. Is that whinging, or aren't we allowed any debate without pathetic references to me being a copper?!
Dan
Grow up!!!!!
11.02.2002 20:18
Bill
Dangerous accusations
11.02.2002 21:47
Bill: I think it's rather ignorant of you to suggest that the SWP or the TUC can be compared to the BNP/NF/C18. The fascist right has been involved in violence, murder and bombing campaigns against innocent people who they wish to kill. There is no way you can make a moral equivalence between the fascists and trade unionists. It is deeply insulting to people like me who work hard in the trade union movement and have been committed to anti-racism.
Daniel Brett
e-mail: dan@danielbrett.co.uk
Is this a threat of legal action!!?
11.02.2002 22:16
On the serious point - organisations sometimes need paid organisers...lots of groups like CND do as well, No probs here, and Guy even seems like quite a nice bloke.
But the real problem seems to be that disgruntled GR members have no say in the running or finances of GR, so it all comes out in angry accusations on this wire, for all to see!
People object to the way GR is so obviously run from the top down by the SWP. People feel betrayed because GR sounds like a good idea. When you join you think you are going to find anarchists and communists and greens etc. working together. Instead you find somthing like the old Socialist Worker Student Society. This is a great pity!
strewth
no!
11.02.2002 23:18
jimmer
tribal w\ar
11.02.2002 23:57
dh
Guy Taylor was the one who said it!!!!
12.02.2002 00:58
This is a serious point and not just a slanging match and is certainly not "nasty mud-slinging". For GR to be successful (as I want it to be) it has to stop being an SWP front and have real participation from its members. So please, go ahead, e-mail GR, I'd love an answer and stop talking about ridiculous things like people taking people to court.
Dan
it's in GR's hands now
12.02.2002 10:53
Daniel Brett
e-mail: dan@danielbrett.co.uk
show me the money!
12.02.2002 17:19
But what I can say with absolute confidence is that Globalise Resistance doesn't subsidise the SWP. It's the other way round; the SWP provided most of the funds and resources to get GR up and running.
Frankly, if our participation in GR was supposed to be a money-spinner, it's been a dramatic failure! ;-)
internationalist
Homepage: http://www.resist.org.uk
Speculate!
12.02.2002 19:17
Inter-National-Ist