What's there to say about the rank stupidity of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) and the rankest of all their vile cross-class popular fronts, Unite Against Fascism (UAF)?
Well, not much, but I certainly have heard some choice morsals of bullshit being spoken by SWPers recently. 'Why would you want to exclude people?' I was asked, apparently genuinely, by one young SWP a few weeks ago after a discussion about his fab plan to mobilize the imams of Brum to boost the turnout to last Saturday's protest in Derbyshire against the BNP's summer festival. Why would I want to exclude people? I dunno, perhaps because I'm a socialist? So I believe that the emancipation of the working class must be the act of the working class itself? Perhaps SWPers have their own secret summer farm festival- on Animal Farm, to be precise, where Marx's quotes often have a new bit written on the end when you wake up in the morning- 'the emancipation of the working class must be the act of the working class itself along with as many petty bourgeois religious people, Lib Dem and Tory MPs and dodgy islamists as we can get to agree with our inane crap on any particular issue.'
About a week before the demo, I had another encounter with an SWPer, a very strange character this one- hyper enthusiastic, kitted out in brand new Love Music Hate Racism hoodie- who introduced herself saying 'I'm SWP, from the heart. But I'm also a human.' I thought this was a very worthwhile statement, as the first thing I usually do when I meet a member of the SWP is whip out my Voight-Kampff machine and check to see if they are in fact an android.
When I expressed my doubts as to whether it was going to be feasible to 'kettle' the BNP as UAF intended, bearing in mind how many thousands of people it would take to surround the massive farm on which the festival was happening, I was reassured that 'oh don't worry, it'll be massive. You won't believe how many coaches are going. You see, even the capitalists aren't fascist. Imagine if we could get all the capitalists there- that'd be brilliant!' For once I genuinely was speechless with that one. Marxist education? Pfff- that's a bourgeois distraction, comrade!
As a footnote- UAF promised to mobilize 5,000 people for the protest. In fact it managed about 1,000. The number of capitalists and imams there is unknown.
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