I did my duty and threw myself into election campaigning for an option that wasn't actually that shit, and in fact quite laudable, almost hopeful (keeping the socialists on coventry city council) and since then I've been walking around with my eyes screwed shut every time the news comes on. No, seriously.
Yeah, pretty much. I've my own reservations about Neo-Trotskyism (mostly, not enough of the neo for my liking, plus centralism), but despite Crow being PR poison (half his own fault, half the media's, imo, but still), TUSC have the honour of not having gone to bed with the devil, and being able to call themselves socialist without some sort of reimagining of the English language. Also - seperate queues for students? Even those with polling cards? I called bullshit on the results when I saw the exit poll - there's at least one fix in there, and I'd suspect two is closer.
Yeah. We weren't officially campaigning under the TUSC name, because Coventry is one of the few cities where the SP has any kind of name recognition whatsoever.
I've never heard anyone call the SP 'Neo-Trotskyist'. The SP is an out and out Trot party, nothing neo about it. It still does a good job of balancing the democratic with the centralist, or I wouldn't be a member. I certainly think I've got a lot more freedom within the SP than if I went and joined Labour. And TUSC isn't a ;Trotskyist party', it's a coalition of small parties (some of them Trotskyist) and trade unions. It doesn't function in the same way as a Trotskyist party, it doesn't have the same end-goals, it doesn't have the same kind of structure. The idea is that it's a broad church of socialist groups (you know, like the Labour Party used to be) that agree to central tenets.
Yeah - fair enough - from talking to Ivens I got the impression that the TUSCoalition was primarily the Socialists and derived its structure from there. RE: SP vs Labour, well, yeah. Sorry about confusing leftist corpuscles, and thanks for the clarification. Embarrassingly out of the loop, really. Serves me right for obsessing over intra-mainstream-bastard strife. Unfortunately, there's not much left in Folkestone. Our Tory has a head MADE OF HAM. EVIL HAM.
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I've never heard anyone call the SP 'Neo-Trotskyist'. The SP is an out and out Trot party, nothing neo about it. It still does a good job of balancing the democratic with the centralist, or I wouldn't be a member. I certainly think I've got a lot more freedom within the SP than if I went and joined Labour. And TUSC isn't a ;Trotskyist party', it's a coalition of small parties (some of them Trotskyist) and trade unions. It doesn't function in the same way as a Trotskyist party, it doesn't have the same end-goals, it doesn't have the same kind of structure. The idea is that it's a broad church of socialist groups (you know, like the Labour Party used to be) that agree to central tenets.
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