Respect Splits

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Seems that the SWP control what's left of Respect, while Galloway-and-the-Islamists are likely to set up some new group with a very similar name.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

May I suggest the Popular People's front of Judea?

(Obvious Joke I know, but had to be said.)

[Hash]

Good news. I love to see the far-left always fighting.

[Verily]

Good news. I love to see the far-left always fighting.

Galloway and what's left of Respect don't really count as far-left.

[Stranger in a strange land]

[snaps] Respek! Booyakasha

[Silent Hunter]

What's your source for this?

[Hash]

For what it's worth, Wikipedia also talks about a split in RESPECT, and uses as sources this commie site perhaps affiliated with Respect as sources: http://www.socialistunity.com/?p=956

[Filuwaúrdjan]

What's your source for this?

Rumours, followed by wasting a lot of timing chasing things up on extreme-left websites. It seems to be true.

[© tweed]

[snaps] Respek! Booyakasha

brilliant

[Silent Hunter]

It's on the RESPECT website now:

http://www.respectcoalition.org/

Locks have apparently been changed.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

For those that don't want to visit Respect's website, here's the official statement. And, as Trottish tripe goes, it's a classic:

<sub>George Galloway and his supporters have split from Respect. After a week in which he has tried to pretend that the SWP and other socialists were leaving Respect he has announced a rival conference on the same day as the Respect national conference.

The split conference, under the name Respect Renewal, does not have the support of the majority of Respect members nor has it been authorised or endorsed by any of the elected bodies of Respect.

George Galloway has chosen to ignore the resolutions from Respect branches around the country demanding that the Respect conference go ahead. The attempt by Linda Smith and Salma Yaqoob earlier this week to call off  the long planned Respect annual conference failed because most rank and file members demanded that it go ahead.

George Galloway's response has been to try and split the organisation by calling a separate conference. He has failed to win votes at the national officers meetings or to put his call to a national council. He fears he will not have the support of a majority at the Respect conference.

Every Respect member should support the original and properly delegated conference. No other conference will be a delegate body with the authority to speak for Respect members. We remain committed to the radical, democratic principles of Respect as it was first founded.</sub>

How long before they start airbrushing photos? A memo to anyone considering setting up a far-left fring organisation; don't, under any circumstances, get into bed with the SWP.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I agree with what Verily said with calling this "far-left". Far right is more like it.

[minionofmidas]

Perfectly irrelevant. The SWP doesn't add anything to the Galloway ticket.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Perfectly irrelevant.

True enough. Doesn't stop it from being amusing, if a little clichéd (insert jokes about the People's Front of Judea here...)

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That this will do less to hurt Galloway's own electoral chances that Galloway's own actions over the past few years is sort of a given.

Though a decent % of their councillers (not that they have many) are with the SWP (including all their fluke ones from outside London and Brum). I've no idea about activists and so on as the details of strange alternative universe that Trots live in are unknown to me. I suspect that all the SWPites will lose their seats when they come up for re-election.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

[afleitch]

I was going to make a tasteless joke about what they were wearing....

[Joe Republic]

Weren't the PFJ and JPF all Jewish?  A touch of irony, perhaps?

[Silent Hunter]

I had one of my semi-regular George Galloway dreams last night. I was laughing to his face about the RESPECT break-up and my friends later laughed with me.

[KEmperor]

I had one of my semi-regular George Galloway dreams last night.

Well that's kinda creepy.

[Democratic Hawk]

Don't like RESPECT whether dominated by the SWP or Islamists. It can just crawl away and die for all I care

Dave