socialist, revolutionary socialist at that, feminist, anti-racist, LGBT allied, Trotskyist, Labour, pro-union, rank & file, green, but red at the same time, in solidarity with Iranian and Iraqi workers and women, supportive of all workers in struggle, against Blairism, against imperialism, against Islamism, for a two state solution to the Israel/Palestine conflict, for troops out of Iraq now, for a strong third camp opposed to both the occupation and the 'resistance' in Iraq, against privatisation, for public ownership of all industry under workers' control, so that means hands off the NHS Blair, against Brownism too because he's just a dodgy a geezer as that Blair bloke...
- 22 years old
- originally from Salford
- currently living in Surrey
- a human resources officer in local government
- currently single
- a former Media Studies student
- isn't as much as a loser as the above makes him out to be
- a member of Workers' Liberty
- a member of the Labour Party
- the disabilities officer of the Socialist Youth Network, youth network of the Labour Representation Committee
- a member of No Sweat!
- a supporter of Education Not For Sale
- a supporter of Feminist Fightback
- a former member of the Socialist Workers' Party and Workers' Power, and a former founding member of RESPECT (he still hasn't managed to wash off all the shame)
- very fond of computers, dance music - especially electro, French house, drum & bass and a bit of techno, iPods, hot chocolate, Chinese cusine, especially Dim Sum, Indian cuisine, especially Biryianis, pot noodles, writing stuff, watching mindless comedies, free stuff from trade unions amongst other things
- not very fond of cheese.
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Hi Kit
I’m genuinely very interested in the conference - I’ve talked to some of the comrades quite a lot about porn/sex workers.
I think it’s really important that men respond to an event like this, particularly given that there’s so much philistinism on the Left - so many groups who ignore women’s rights for the sake of making friends with religious reactionaries. The SWP even have meetings about why women are freer in Iran than in the West (They are “allowed” to wear the veil, not like in French schools!)
We must stand up for basic socialist liberation principles
I don’t know why I called you Kit, as I know your name is Chris…
Hehe, most people outside of work and politics call me Kit, because it’s been my nickname since I was very little (even my family call me it, they never call me Chris. Ever) and it’s stuck with me to the point where I have to force myself to respond to ‘Chris’. Weird, I know.
I think that there isn’t enough emphasis on women’s liberation issues, which is a massive problem especially given that some major struggles - from the Gate Gourmet workers at Heathrow to the attacks on women’s reproductive rights in the United States to all over, it seems to be working class women who are bearing the hardest brunt of neo-liberal and neo-conservative attacks.
There is, as you pointed out, a tendency on the socialist left to leave questions of women’s emancipation to the women. It’s somewhat like thinking that questions of anti-racism should be left to black people and that white people have no role in breaking the racist system.
Are you going David?
Got to love your brother. Happy New Year all. Take Care.
P
Come to Manchester!
Oh, but I’m fed up with Manchester.
Comrade Kit,
I say go for Wolverhampton. Why? Because it is an experience and everyone should have that West Midlands experience (and not just me…..).
Do any of these courses stand out for you?
I second Adele. When one is tired of Manchester, one is tired of life (with apologies to Dr. Johnson but when I moved up here I was tired of London).
Look, we need a leadership contest, ok? So why are you complaining if more candidates enter the race, eh?
Because Meacher’s only standing in order to smash McDonnell, not for any ideological reason.
Politics in Manchester is incredibly vibrant.
Amersham’s a nice-ish place. And it’s on the nicest tube line there is, where, as the Evening Standard (does it still exist actually?) regularly likes to point out on particuarly slow-news days, the most sexual encounters on tube trains take place, probably due to a combination of those large, springy seats, the lack of passengers at many times of the days, and the carriages being built in the “swinging 60s”. Incidentally, is the National Film and Television School still out that way?
London College of Communications has a specialist journalist and other related courses
Oh and also a journalism foundation degree + several courses on media/film foundation blah blah etc etc
+ you have to help me campaign in stop the war, or I’ll string you up from the ceiling
Theft is good… do I know you by any chance?
LCC is firmly on my list. I actually went to an interview at LCC - well, it was still called London College of Printing at the time - and got it, only to turn it down because I was offered a job at a trade union, only to be made redundant two weeks later.
Kit, no you don’t know me, but good luck in applying for LCC, if you do.
Stop being such a London-centrist
Come to Leicester! DMU is dull, but the AWL branch is playing a leading role in fighting job cuts in the local NHS, and there’s a lively linux user group!
You won’t be able to make phone calls with that mobile.
And there I was thinking you were one of the more style conscious comrades around …
AVPS
Kit has his own individual style
Ah damn! I am out of town that weekend! Any other weekend in April is great for me. Not May due to exams but of course don’t change the date on my account!