The Irish SWP have been caught in an embarressing slip. Within 36 hours of the biggest and most militant anti-capitalist march that the country has seen in decades, the SWP produced a leaflet which they handed out on the RTS in Dublin on Monday May 3rd. In this leaflet they denounced the libertarian organisers of the march as "Thatcher's children" for not preventing people from advancing and trying to push through police lines.
The leaflet was produced at a time when it seemed that the state backlash against the movement would be severe, but they quickly realised their mistake and have since 'disappeared' the leaflet. The denunciation was especially funny as it demanded that people should advance together or hold the line together, when the SWP actually fled long, long before the rest of the crowd.
See link for the full story on Irish Indymedia
See link for the full story on Irish Indymedia
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IE IMC link
12.05.2004 09:36
Chris
socialist worker tricks
12.05.2004 09:59
In total it seemed to me that the Socialist Workers seemed to hide behind the "radical block" and it seemed to me that they in general wanted to have others doing the work and they to claim afterwards the success/victory of the protest; it never was so clear to me than in Dublin, where they were actually a minority on the demos.
nope
it's there usual tactic
12.05.2004 13:34
As for the leaflet - does anybody have a copy they can scan and post here?
tekno anarchist
Truth
12.05.2004 16:25
You just have to look at their 'Marxist' festival to see how hard they work.
AntiCap
SWP puting in the work?!
12.05.2004 23:29
activist who was in ie
bollix
13.05.2004 09:02
i guess you may have been here, but if you were here for the 3 week build up your report may be more factual.
brit tosser
mal
Follow the link
13.05.2004 11:27
Badman
Anarchism (yawn)
13.05.2004 16:00
Don't hold your breath.
And to all the AAAnarchists out there, great job in Genoa! Way to go.
Michael
Michael is a moron
14.05.2004 00:08
badman
haha
14.05.2004 10:59
Bad Authoritarian Marxists...they ALL bow down to their master...
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