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What Has Happened To Manchester Social Forum

Harriet Hornetti | 24.11.2004 10:32

Does anybody know what is happening with Manchester Social Forum? Its web-site seems to have dissappeared.

Has it suffered the clash of the usual sectarians? Or is it the play thing of a few individuals - like London Social Forum?

Social Forum are being launched successfully in other places. Could Manchester pull itself together and relaunch.

Harriet Hornetti

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It's still there

24.11.2004 19:48

Social Forum is still up and running. They are having problems with their website, I think they've lost the domain name, or something. They still meet every Thursdya night at the Friends Meeting House.

knightrose
mail e-mail: anarchist_federation@yahoo.co.uk
Homepage: http://www.af-north.org

This may sound daft:

24.11.2004 20:07

But, has it moved to Sheffield?

My advice is to check there first - just to rule it out. A mate of mine went missing once from Manchester and was discovered in Sheffield.

Hines

Still going....

24.11.2004 20:52

Yes it's still going, the website is undergoing a 'facelift' and will be online as some as we sort web space etc. Meanhile you can join the new e-mail group to keep up with goings on just send an email to

manchestersocialforum-subscribe@lists.riseup.net

Chad

MSF

24.11.2004 21:47

I hope it hasn't gone as I'll have to spend more time wondering what the SWP will call itself next, you know

SWP
UNISON
CND
Our town against racism
RESPECT
MSF

and next,

Please don't give us ID cards?
G8 is naughty?

Grant Wolstencroft

chortles

24.11.2004 23:03

If Grant Wolstencroft, you seriously think the MSF is a cover for the SWP you have clearly never been!

Oi!

UNISON an SWP front?

25.11.2004 10:54

Wow, that's pretty impressive. Unison has 1.5 million members. If it's an SWP front they really are doing well these days!

type

SWP UNISON

25.11.2004 11:56

so we're agreed on at least 4 out of five then?

Grant

What Ever Happened To ...

25.11.2004 13:03

Don't they have a Socialist Worker Forum in Manchester like some other places - that's the same as a Social Forum init? Or I am as breathtakingly stupid as the SWooPier who had the idea in the first place.

(Note: A SWooPier is a member of the SWP, a Leninist Sect who clam 10,000 members, but actually have less than 600).

However

Confused?

25.11.2004 17:51

MSF also stands for Manufacturing Science Finance, the former name for Amicus, a smaller union than UNISON.

Yes, of course SWP UNISON is an oxymoron. SWP members in UNISON can be found in the "UNISON United Left" along with their fellow travellers, although it's quite hard to find if you're not a member (of "UUL", that is). Naturally, UNISON does not recognise the "UUL" (along with many of the Left), but strangely enough the organisers of the European Social Forum did recognise the "UUL" as a union (see the official programme if you haven't thrown it out yet).

But back to the subject. UNISON did lose patience with a couple of SWPers and chucked them out. And yes, you've guessed it,now they're trying to join Amicus!

Comrade Tulayev

The Romans

26.11.2004 11:38

You all sound the Monty Pythons having a row in the Life of Brian.

Now let us all remember the true enemy - The Popular Judean Front

No - the romans

People's Judean Front

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