Comments on: yay, it’s a bad seventies re-run!

By: Sparen

Sparen — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:56:53 +0000

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By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:46:47 +0000

What did you do to stop the NF meeting in Glasgow Bob Ford?

Get back under your bridge, troll.

By: lindsey fucking german BACK WITH A VENGEANCE

lindsey fucking german BACK WITH A VENGEANCE — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:57:12 +0000

oh i’m sorry, have GAFA not been building for the demo in Edinburgh?

By: bob ford

bob ford — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:54:33 +0000

I love the idea that Gafa is THE broad movement you describe. Brilliant. What should we do? for starters lets not bother loitering about near rangers pubs for hours before walking home having made literally zero impact when you could be building for the demo in edinburgh.

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:28:57 +0000

@bob ford-and your brilliant plan is what exactly?

By: Andy Bowden

Andy Bowden — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:43:46 +0000

The notice we had for NF meeting on sat was about 2 days. This was a national meeting for them that they had time to prepare for by contrast. The important thing is to deal with the NF’s planned “memorial” for Kriss Donald next month.

By: yer maw

yer maw — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:33:58 +0000

yo mr bob ford, er… what the fuck? i think we took the correct decision in not going down to annie millers.. what would’ve been the point in it?
the decision to mobilise against the NF was made at a Glasgow Anti-Fascist Alliance meeting a week ago – a broad and open group that, you might remember, organised the mass, successful demo against the SDL last November (y’know.. the one that the SWP/UAF vehemently attacked until two days before it then did a spectucular u-turn and decided to hijack it for their own purposes…) – in a democratic fashion (something the UAF/SWP aren’t very familiar with). This was, after all, the first time the NF had held a meeting in glasgow for YEARS and, quite rightly in my opinion, we decided to call a demo to oppose it. However, given the numbers that turned out on the day + the fact they were meeting in aformentioned dodgy rangers pub, it would’ve been foolish to confront them directly.

By: bob ford

bob ford — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:44:15 +0000

So how did it go last saturday in Glasgow then? I heard that after all the mincing about with mowhawks and dreadlocks and a whole lot of squadist bellyhoo you charged of down the road to a rangers pub then chickened out.

Honest to christ. Do you think that this is the best way to build a ‘broad’ ‘open’ antifascist movement? Get 20 odd hippies and subculture types together for a barry that you chicken out of anyway? Get Serious.

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:15:31 +0000

No it’s just that this discussion is getting cyclical, and it’s not going anywhere. What SSY is doing about fascism in Scotland is clear from every post about it on this site-building broad, open and democratic groups committed to preventing SDL etc. marching by occupying the streets ourselves. I’m sorry if you’d prefer that every article also contained a denunciation of UAF as well, but we think that probably isn’t very productive.

Plus, we’ve clearly not been going to the same socials.

By: fiannanahalba

fiannanahalba — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:34:54 +0000

Thats the lame terminology trotted out routinely by many in the left, lazily but probably unconsciously apeing Cliff and the SWP when they expelled, by letter the dreaded squaddists while some were in gaol for acquainting violent fascists heads with pavements.
Boring pal? Naw ive been to SSP/SSY socials- thats mogadon.