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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Now That's What I Call Marxist

 On the Menu

Occupy and We'll Arrest Stew

1. Take 5000 anti-capitalist protesters, crusty. Add 2000 police - grease their palms.

2. Mix in a large urban melting-pot. Stir up trouble thoroughly.

3. Sandwich protesters in one medium sized kettle.

4. Leave to stew until they begin to sweat.

5. Bring situation to boiling point. Tenderise with truncheons and beat throughly.

6. Grill the "ring-leaders" until well-done in.

7. Season with assault and pepper-spray.

8. Allow the media to serve it up liberally garnished with lies

 Sport

Prole Position

Fed up with Grand Prix Formula 1 and NASCAR. Try the new sensation sweeping the world - the Rat Race. Just like motor car racing contestants in in the Rat Race go round and round in circles without getting anywhere. But Rat Race dosn't use cars. We take ordinary people and we force them to compete against one another. Get a Job! Work Harder!! Faster! Faster!!

Each year as competition gets more and more intense, the contestants have to go faster and faster just to stay in the race. Watch how these machines handle themselves  as they go through recessions and redundancies. As they race the contestants produce a large surplus of profit - not for themselves- but for the bosses.

Safety provisions are minimal (basic healthcare, meagre benefits). Those who can't handle it crash and go to the wall. Only a few lap it up and go on to better positions. And that means having to race even faster.

And at the end of the race the contestants are sprayed by a warm golden liquid - and it isn't Champagne!

The Rat Race. Dangerous. Exploitative. Pointless.


Movie Reviews

Hammer and Sickle Productions available from Vanguard Films

Count Trotcula V
A mysterious force is sucking the blood of the workers' movement. Is it the sinister old man who lives in the castle on top of th hill? Or is it SPEW, again?

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Everything was going to well at the anti-war demonstration - until the SWP turned up for a party recruitment drive.

I Know What You Did Last Election

Six university student SWPers find themselves the target of a murderer who knows their secret - they talked about revolution but then voted Labour

Frankenstein's Monster
With Vladimir Lenin as the mad inventor and the Bolshevik revolution as the monster he creates and couldn't control

The Kronstadt Chainsaw Massacre
An authentic re-enactment of the 1921 workers' revolt and its brutal suppression by the Red Army - using chainsaws

Night of the Living Dead
A SPGB public meeting!





Thanks to Birmingham Branch magazine available to read here

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