Here are the notes for a meeting at which I am speaking later in the week. It’s an attempt to summarise why building broad class struggle parties is an essential task at the moment and set out how a revolutionary current, of even modest size, should behave. I use Powerpoint for my notes because my…
Here are the notes for a meeting at which I am speaking later in the week. It’s an attempt to summarise why building broad class struggle parties is an essential task at the moment and set out how a revolutionary current, of even modest size, should behave.
I use Powerpoint for my notes because my handwriting is worse than Adam Smith’s. A little bit of group discussion at the start is seldom popular but it breaks the ice and makes the evening less of a series of monologues.
Good luck with the speech Liam. Perhaps if you conceptualise each Respect branch as a local united front, a miniature or nascent working class and community parliament attractive to all those in practical struggle, it would help. The task then is to grow these everywhere and argue for the adoption of transitional demands (workers’ government etc). Do the opposite of what the sects do, i.e. split them down, lead break ways, organise spurious expulsions until they have the leadership of precisely nothing and instead conduct an exemplary struggle for leadership. Hopefully, then, when the time comes, some way off at the moment, we will be able to argue over the question of power. Like the transition movement only working class based and political. It is amazing how that movement has spread only it will never confront the system politically, idealistically preferring to ignore or work around it. Often well worth participating in though because they help you out if you’ve got a practical green idea you would like to try and implement, they support you and Resepct should be like that in terms of workers and communities in struggle.
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Skidmarx – I’ve tried it in two browsers and it seems fine. I’m not sure what the problem is.
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I assume it’s supposed to play when one clicks on the green triangle. Not for me. The loading logo is still going behind it,; perhaps I need to show more patience, but I assume it should have loaded within a couple of minutes.
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Skid, take at look at it here:
http://www.slideshare.net/liammacuaid/revolutionaries-and-broad-parties
You press the big green triangle to load it, and the the small black forward button to advance from slide to slide.
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Thanks for that. I’m still unlikely ever to convinced that Respect can still become a broad class struggle party, or that anyone left in it from the time of the split had any respect for democratic processes. If there is a fair degree of cohesion in any revolutionary current, they should largely vote together whether instructed to or not.
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Liam redux 
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