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as long as everyone is having fun and not taking it as a serious political action it would be cool to hang out with comrades and fuck with things like this. peace oot.
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as usual i look at a picture someone took and just see a gigantic hammer and sickle
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He's wearing a fake arm in his left sleeve. His real arm is taped to his side to stop him from instinctively raising a defiant fist.
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I can confirm that people have come up to CPGB-ML stalls and said "I saw you on sky news with the hammer and sickle banners in front of corbyn"

plug for communism: if ur in the UK pls join the CPGB-ML, get in touch here

sky news as usual pointing away from the real story, a giant fucking stalin banner


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a) from a cynical media perspective i don't think it matters that you guys got pictures in the papers, because you're just being used as a scare tactic prop and your actual messages or ideas aren't being portrayed at all (hence the camera pointing the other way) -- as a cartoon. imo.

however

b) it seems like the media here are just shitting their pants constantly trying to paint corbyn in as bad a light as possible with the "anti-semitism" bullshit and now this, to an outsider just arriving it really seems like a joke. i flip through the newspapers on the train and just laugh at how hard they're trying. it makes me wonder how it actually seems to The Average Voter though.

i'm used to people just sucking up everything the media says as gospel truth so if they are saying "look, he is a jew-hating stalin-lover who literally supports terrorism, just like we said he was" are people buying it? or is it so over the top that they've blown all credibility?
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tears posted:

sky news as usual pointing away from the real story, a giant fucking stalin banner



it's really too bad that those people are so homely. probably the best thing we can do for socialism is to be attractive while advocating for it.

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That's true.
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Fuck all englishers communist or non. Y'all talk funny.
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what the fuck is that hat on the right, the communist cosplay hat. don't wear that hat unless your name is both "Bob" and "Avakian".
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cars posted:

what the fuck is that hat on the right, the communist cosplay hat. don't wear that hat unless your name is both "Bob" and "Avakian".


there are a bunch of old english men that wear them nonironically, though that guy probably just sucks

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greetings from jolly old england, where flat caps are still considered funny and acceptable

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don't wear that hat over here Thin DeLuise.
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Cabbie hats are cool actually.
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It's dangerous 2 wear one with a picture t shirt and what appears to be a back pack because it projects the unmistakable scent of premature balding. But I refuse to compromise on this: cabbie hats are cool.
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Keven posted:

Cabbie hats are cool actually.


wow

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Could Keven and Samuel L. Jackson both be wrong about something? Not likely.
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lol that was a pretty long post about the fashion sense of your org, *adds a notation to my notebook 'Rhizzone Trolling Topics'*
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if your fits ain't fire, how in the heck are the people supposed to fuck wit your vanguard revolutionary movement
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Basically, more La Chinoise, less Red Alert. gotcha.
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Ufuk_Surekli posted:

so I dunno, maybe the CPGB-ML does face a silent internal struggle between occasional ungroomed loons who just want to dress up and look offputting, vs., you know, sane competent adults who want to recruit for a mass workers' party big enough to depose the government and reconfigure the economy of the country



the uk law acts against the occasional cosplay fan by making dressing up as matching military looking wierdos illegal, so its a non starter

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Someone important to me was jailed by the Empire. I've hated the
Empire ever since... I joined the Returners when I realized the
Empire was rotten to the core. I wanted to make a difference.

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I'm wearing a BB-8 tshirt and a pair of denim shorts.
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ive been giving serious thought to joining cpgb. how are they with women as in are there a significant amount (i am woman)
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is there the very real danger of having to fend off sweaty advances and suffer long spittle-inflected halitosis garbage nonsense from guy #2 in above image set, for instance
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tpaine posted:

no undies?


i neglected to mention the underwear, socks, and so on.

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a good adjective to describe tpaine would be "incurable"
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Ufuk_Surekli posted:

* that stuff like free love, political lesbianism, bra-burning etc are basically irrelevant to working class women - they don't help liberate women from juggling jobs, houses, childcare etc



i'm about to go out so i will check out the videos when i return, thank u, but i wanted to focus on a bit of what you said first

i am a lesbian, and political, but not a political lesbian if u see what i mean, and i'm finding it strange that political lesbianism was brought up at all (i am aware of the 70s roots of this term-of straight women attempting to escape patriarchy by "becoming" "lesbians" which resulted in a lot of crap about women "freeing themselves from the tyranny of the orgasm"- because they were forcing themselves to partner with other women, who they were not attracted to, and upset and betrayed lesbians who wanted relationships and sisterhood but not to be a straight woman's political statement. it got ugly and everyone's feelings got hurt and it didn't really last, i'm friends with older lesbians who were around then and they all agree it was a shit idea. afaik no one has bothered with PL since the 70s, it is now a relic)

i'm not sure of the usefulness of bringing up "bra burning" either (this never happened), as i do believe in the concept of women as a sex class and the bra burning myth was basically constructed around women objecting to their sexualisation. basically that paragraph (apart from free love which is shite) sounds like a wholesale dismissal of second wave feminism, which made mistakes, of which PL was certainly one, but did a lot of p great shit for working women too-ending marital rape, squatting buildings to create women's shelters, calling for the end of porn culture. a lot of the backlash we see now is a direct fightback against that stuff, and i think that absolutely impacts working class women. i'm for learning from the successes and mistakes of my older sisters, not dismissing them.or maybe i'm reading too much into it bc they were two v second wave ideas cited. i will watch the videos and decide for myself.

the rest sounds good though, i'm p much in agreement. might be time to check out a meeting. it's good that there is practical materialist analysis of working women's conditions as i am sick at heart at the pomo liberal crap that passes itself for feminism right now. i am not as well read as a lot of you guys on here, so i have been pretty terrified of doing anything but more reading until now but that aint gonna help anything much nohow if its all i do, so time to suck it up and get out there i guess.

(ps i've lurked since the LF days and well thanks for radicalising me and getting me on all kinds of watch lists i guess everyone. ur the best. i do wish discipline was still here though she was p cool and said a lot of smart stuff about feminism)