The greens are not just capitalist they have also sold out on the environment the very cause that launched them onto the politcal scene. The founding members have been elbowed aside by scheming chancers with over inflated full of bull ego's and no morals, they even accept backhanders from the petro chemical industries, the very people responsible for polluting our planet !! As it happens one or two of the founder members of the greens, died in strange circumstances.

I have often wondered what makes these middle class types so mercenary. Once they lose their regional accents they seem to lose any trace of scruples /social concience ect.

you can see what Pol Pot was getting at..

LB

The SWP/GR leadership are attempting to hijack the anti-capitalist movement to press the labour rank and file to rise up against Blair and his clique; they are not genuine revolutionary anti-capitalists. We must not, however, simply point out what these pseudo-Trotskyists (because that is what they are- Trotsky was a genuine revolutionary) are doing only to foster divisions amongst protestors. Some SWP members,i think, are people of good faith who can be radicalised and be brought over to revolutiuonary (and not reformist)anti-capitalism. But we must draw these people over to more radical forms of struggle in order that the anti-capitalist movement can grow. The last thing we should strive for is the formation of an 'anarchist' ghetto.
To further this aim of radicalising the Trotskyists
(i.e.,those that are genuine revolutionaries) we should, as the above article suggests, seek to blockade the Labour party conference to clearly show to people that we are not seeking the reform of capitalism but its abolition!

The SWP/GR leadership are attempting to hijack the anti-capitalist movement to press the labour rank and file to rise up against Blair and his clique; they are not genuine revolutionary anti-capitalists. We must not, however, simply point out what these pseudo-Trotskyists (because that is what they are- Trotsky was a genuine revolutionary) are doing only to foster divisions amongst protestors. Some SWP members,i think, are people of good faith who can be radicalised and be brought over to revolutiuonary (and not reformist)anti-capitalism. But we must draw these people over to more radical forms of struggle in order that the anti-capitalist movement can grow. The last thing we should strive for is the formation of an 'anarchist' ghetto.
To further this aim of radicalising the Trotskyists
(i.e.,those that are genuine revolutionaries) we should, as the above article suggests, seek to blockade the Labour party conference to clearly show to people that we are not seeking the reform of capitalism but its abolition!

A radical bloc at the Labour Party conference is a great idea. If the bloc is big enough a blockade is a good one too.

The SWP organises a lobby of the Labour Party conference every year. These started by being organised by 'Trade union Fightback' or something similar (SWP trade union members), then the SWP tried an 'Action programme' (written by SWP) and this was the banner, now its the Socialist Alliance and Globalise Resistance's turn (both controlled by the SWP). The slant changes but the purpose is the same: to recruit people to the SWP.

I do not find this as objectionable as some people clearly do. The SWP's basic political position is they essentially know the truth about the way the world is and what needs to be done to change it, so the quicker the rest of use hurry up and put ourselves under the direction of their central committee the better. If they are honest about that I don't have too much of a problem. At least then we can start a discussion about how they don't understand the way the world is and they don't really know what needs to be done to change it. One small piece of evidence for this is the way that the vanguard advanced leadership of the working class managed to miss the development of, and were not involved in, the anti-capitalist movement until May 2000, AFTER SEATTLE. This is not to say that if you weren’t in at the start you can’t join in, it’s just that the SWP prides itself on how its clever Marxist theoreticians know what is happening in the world. Maybe they missed out because the anti-globalisation movement started amongst in the poor countries not the rich.

Globalise resistance by the way is a really insulting name. Our resistance has been as global as capitalism for a long time. If anything we, in the rich north, need to localise resistance if anything, its time the chickens came home to roost.

(Don't believe anarchists have the answers either and some of them can be as arrogant, dogmatic and even as authoritarian as the SWP)

So the SWP September 30 march will be organised in such a way to recruit maximum numbers to the SWP so doing something else is a good idea

BUT

Is the focus of this radical bloc going to be GR/SWP or the labour party
Lots of people will come with the SWP or GR who are angry about what New Labour is doing. Not every young person carrying a GR placard is a hardened Leninist.

A blockade may work if leaflets advertising it are directed at Labour and not rants attacking the SWP. If anyone wants to hand something like that out on the day....

Anyway here are the reasons I would want to blockade New Labour:

During the conference they will be carving up the rest of the public sector for PFI with their big business mates and plotting the success of tube privatisation

During the conference they will not be talking about how to achieve the 90%cuts in CO2 we need urgently to stop climate chaos

During the conference they will be congratulating themselves on the way they have managed to take away even more of our liberties over the last year and how they can stop us from travelling to protests in the future.

During the conference they will be meeting with their friends in the arms trade who are making a killing from people being killed

During the conference the trade union leaders will be swapping tactics on how to stop their members taking action to fight for decent wages or against job losses

Add your own

So lets have a blockade that focuses on New Labour's pro-capitalist policies. That is the way to show people attracted to GR that the SWP pay lip service to anti-capitalism in order to try to make friend with the trade union officials

Blair is not going to take any notice of the SWP marching in the back streets. He isn't gonna take much notice of a blockade either but at least it will get the message out that we aren't going to take their shit and just shout about it any longer. If new labour are going to act like the IMF/WB and rich capitalists then they are going to be treated like it.