“I've recently heard that GR funds are being used to pay for a full-time activist who is, surprise surprise, an SWP member and one of their ex-organisers. If this is true this is yet another example of the SWP using GR as a front. Where was the democracy in this decision? I'm a GR member and was never consulted. These funds are raised by GR supporters and surely they should be consulted if a big chunk is gonna be spent on an SWP activist!!! As I said if this is true it's an outrage.”

I’m re-posting this because I genuinely want an answer. So we don’t have the tangents and misunderstandings from last time I’ll make some things extra clear.

I’m not some anarchist nut with the same name as me who comes on here all the time slagging off the SWP. This is the first time I’ve posted something on Indymedia.

The information about Guy Taylor getting £500 pm from GRs funds was not plucked out of thin air but from Guy Taylor himself.

The issue is not that GR shouldn’t have a paid activist or indeed that they shouldn’t be from the SWP. The issue is that no-one was consulted about the issue, not even the steering committee. The issue is that it is a disgrace that the SWP should decide to use GR funds to pay one of their activists out of funds that were raised for GR and not the SWP.

So rather than just the usual responses of…..yawn, boring, we don’t need this, get together and fight, go out and build demos, stop whinging etc etc, can someone from the SWP give us an answer as to why this happened. If GR is to grow then it can’t be an SWP front and this is a pretty clear example of that being the case.