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I expect everyone will have seen the tale of the chairman of the Communist Party of Great Britain, Anita Halpin, having secured £20m from the sale of a Kirchner painting. If not, here are the details.
Keeping up with who's who and what's what in the zoology of the extreme left can be a struggle, and I fear that bourgeois newspapers like the Telegraph cannot be relied upon to get the commas, the parentheses, the hyphens, the geographical indicators and so forth of precise nomenclature – desperately important in matters of the Left – exactly right, so I have done some digging. What follows, is actually a simplified version of the family tree.
The CPGB ‘appears’ to be the inheritor of the group founded by the merger of the British Socialist Group, Communist Unity Group and, of course, the South Wales Socialist Group in 1920. To which was added the Communist Party (British Section of the 3rd International) and Scottish Communist Labour Party (or at least the majorities of both) in 1921.
However, things went awry in the ‘60’s – as the Committee to Defeat Revisionism, for Communist Unity, split from the CPGB in '63, and the Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist) split from 'mother' in '68. But the splits just kept on coming, saying goodbye to members who formed the New Communist Party of Britain in 1977 and another bunch of splitters – the Communist Party of Britain - in 1988. Things got really messy in the ‘90s – the CPGB was dissolved in 1991 and reformed as the Democratic Left, while 1980s rejoiners from ‘The Leninist’ newspaper faction formed the CPGB Provisional Central Committee. This appears to be the mob Ms Halpin chairs. Thus saying she is the chair of the Communist Party does oversimplify just a tad. This lot are, or maybe were, active near Hampstead Heath rail station in the early 90s, as I spotted a CPGB PCC sticker on a bus stop which I peeled off and used as a bookmark for a while
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Reminds me of scene 7 of the Life of Brian...
"The only people we hate more than the Romans are the fucking Judean People's Front."
Splitters! Splitters! And all that.
[slightly OT]Sadly Unionism is in the same state as the extreme left.
"The only people we hate more than Sinn Fein/IRA are the fucking UUP."
Is exactly something you'd hear coming out of the mouth of a DUP member...
Pfft. Perhaps I should just resign myself to the seeming apparent fact that we've been outplayed from day one and beaten by the republicans and the British government. Goodbye Northern Ireland, we hardly knew ye.
-le sigh-[/slighty OT]
Will, exactly so. Art imitating life and so forth.
Hmmm, indeed.
-gets to work on some new posts-
These extreme leftist formations, splinters, factions are very difficult to keep up with. Another Commy shower-simply known as the "Communist Party"- have their London head quarters in that hotbed of Bolshevism known as Croydon. see here: http://www.communist-party.org.uk/index.php
IT - Indeed they do. Ruskin House is quite the hot bed of all things left, what with the Croydon Labour Party being based there too..
They didn't bother standing in Croydon Central in 2005 though.
I can proudly say that I have urinated upon the grave of Karl Marx.
BT if anybody fancies a walk around an interesting cemetry I reccomend Kensal green , my fvourite is a chap that was killed by an elephant , not sure how they got the remains home , probably in a very flat parcel (+:
That's the spirit PH. Abney Park cemetery (Stoke Newington / Stamford Hill way) is quite something, if awash with skateboarders - or it was the last time I was there.
"For there is good new yet to hear and fine things to be seen,
Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green."
you can probably help me on this C
I recall seeing a tv program that revealded some of the secrets of Londons necropilis'there is cemetry here they have this incredible hydrualic contraption that took the coffin down be placed in a vault, dont suppose you whcih cemtry tht is?
I would love to see the catacombs under rome.
and paris
dont know if you were aware but thee is huge set of man made caves under speke park (liverpool)they were built by a member of the gallaghers tobacco family to give work to the unemloyed (i think , better google)
PH - looks like it is Kensal Green, judging from a little light googling. Apparently it has the only working hydraulic catafalque in the UK.
Sounds a marginally more worthwhile form of job creation than the one the Gauls cooked up in 1848 - yes, they really did have people digging holes and other people filling them in. So much for the labour theory of value.
This is an interesting conversation. 0.o
Urinating on graves, dead men in flat parcels, hydraulic contraptions....
http://blog.urbanomic.com/tome/archives/2005/07/death_in_july.html
Are these pictures of Kensal Green cemetery? If so, then you must be right.
will b
If I had had a shovel and thought I could have got away with it I would have dug the devil out of the ground and thrown his remains down the nearest sewer , something I have in mind for my own fathers ashes.
Thanks for the info "C"
There is a friends of kensal green society and they hold open days , although from what I have seen it tends to attract goths
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