TONIGHT – EXCLUSIVE – YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST! LINDSAY GERMAN resigns from the SWP because they instruct her to stop speaking for the STWC. . The SWP reply to her resignation after 40 years was simply this:
‘It’s your responsibility to cancel your subscription to Socialist Worker’………….Charming!
It’s ironic that German has fallen foul of the Smith/Callinicos clique who have forced her out of the party using exactly the same methods as the German/Rees clique have used to get rid of their opponents over the years. More forced resignations will surely follow.
Martin Smith tries to coax Lindsay off the window ledge!
Ian Bone 
TONIGHT – EXCLUSIVE – YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST!
I dunno about that Ian, I heard over here first:
http://averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com/2010/02/lindsey-german-resigns-from-swp.html
And so did you!
’It’s your resonsibility to cancel your subscription to Sciaialist Worker’ oh shit ta for reminding me..
Wondeful news. Let’s encourage Rees to exercise a bit of loyalty and follow suit.
Let’s just hope the entire carnival is on the verge of meltdown. It’s all down to that revanchist Robert Service!
Thinks to oneself: I’ll force myself to resign, go on, I don’t want to, alright then I’ll go and forcefully confront Smith and resign, bastards, I did not want to, come on, it was the best thing you did
All hail the almighty SWP sub! Mark Steel (25 years in ‘The Party’) recounts in ‘What’s Going On’:
“I decided to write a piece outlining my dismay for an internal publication open only to SWP members. I received a reply that almost made me clap with admiration. The article couldn’t be printed, I was told, because according to their records I hadn’t been a member for the last 6 years. You had to acknowledge its effective crude simplicity. Maybe when Robin Cook started his speech against the war, Blair should have yelled, ‘Hang on. Before all this about illegality of pre-emptive attacks on sovereign nations, my secretary has just discovered you’ve not paid your subs, so you’re not allowed to speak’. This became a common problem, as long standing members who queried the drenzied new tactics discovered they were somehow missing from the records.
42 leading/influential members left today including
John Rees
Chris Nineham
Neil Faulkner
Elaine Graham-Leigh
Guy Taylor
plus 18 who resigned last week. Rival organisation now clearly in the offing.
http://solomonsmindfield.blogspot.com/2010/02/why-we-are-resigning-from-swp-open.html
There all just a bunch of Leninist tossers squabbling over who’s going to lead the working class towards a workers’ state-capitalist paradise.
It’s time we told all leaders to fuck off.