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Edmund Griffiths
@EdmundGriffiths
Author of Aleksandr Prokhanov and Post-Soviet Esotericism (ibidem-Verlag, 2023)
May 7, 2023 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
There are probably still some "outside left" election results that I haven't seen/posted, but here are a few impressionistic reflections based on the ones I have I would say the vote was usually between 0.7% and 7%, & when it was outside that range it wasn't far outside it. I haven't seen any left candidate quite getting to 10% this time around, although one or two came very close. 2% or 3% was typical
Mar 10, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
What about the unfinished business of 2011? Image The AV referendum. Don't say you'd forgotten the AV referendum
Jun 10, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
There was no evidence in 1934 that a party supporting Scottish independence would succeed. And it didn't: the SNP didn't get a Westminster seat until 1945 (an anomalous by-election), didn't win one at a GE until 1970, didn't get a majority of Scottish Westminster seats until 2015 But would Scottish independence be closer now or further away if the SNP's founders had decided instead to lobby realistically through the Liberal Party for achievable demands? Y'know, I think it just might be further away
Mar 21, 2022 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
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Roman Kunitsyn: "Chekhov's gun, or a little military statistics
[...] When the special operation [...] began, most politicians, commentators, journalists, & ordinary members of the public in both Russia & Ukraine said with one voice that nobody had > > been expecting it. Judging by the long faces of Russia's top leaders, as we saw them on TV, even many of them hadn't seen it coming. It was only specialists in military economics among whom the news didn't cause any shock, or even particular surprise [...] >
Mar 20, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
t.me/rtpbooks/877
The anarchist publishing cooperative Radical Theory and Practice reports that the graphic artist Pavel Korshunov (a pseudonym) has taken his own life. He had fled persecution in Russia, was denied asylum in Ukraine, & escaped to Poland when the war started The image in the previous tweet shows Korshunov's front covers for RTP editions of books by James Scott; Bob Torres; Irina Kakhovskaya; Pattrice Jones; Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, Nancy Fraser; CrimethInc.
Mar 19, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
t.me/s/rwp_rwp
Revolutionary Workers' Party: "It is with official ceremonial & streams of empty chitchat abt patriotism & the strength of the 'Russian soul' that the govt marks 18 March, the anniversary of the annexation of Crimea [...] Vladimir Putin proclaims that > > Russia is the vehicle of justice on earth & curses nationalist regimes & their puppetmasters in the West. Well, let him. Let them round up students & state employees for their rallies, buy support with cash & entertainment & songs by 'stars'. We celebrate a different 18 March >
Mar 18, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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Special issue of Trudovaya Rossiya, the RCWP's paper. Nikita Zaoleshenin writes: "Many people like to say that in Ukraine they've got fascism, whereas in Russia there's almost—Soviet power [...] Many still believe that if V. Putin remembers the Soviet > Image > Union's role in the defeat of Hitlerite fascism, then that in itself makes him better than people who defend their own fascists. In fact he is no better at all: he only poses as an anti-fascist, deceitfully using a privatized Soviet victory to serve his own reactionary >
Mar 2, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
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"Communists & socialists against the fratricidal war
Appeal from CPRF & Komsomol members, elected representatives & candidates, political & trade union activists, & CPRF voters to CPRF members & elected representatives at all levels [...] This war has a > > blatant imperialist character. Those behind it are ideologues of imperial nationalism dreaming of their own version of decommunization [...] Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have been forced from their homes, millions are living in fear of bombing & shelling. The war will >
Mar 1, 2022 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
Thread drawing together some anti-war statements from the Russian left over recent days. I think between them they include the major anticapitalist, social democratic/demsoc, ML/anti-revisionist, Trotskyist, & anarchist organizations; + a minority of CPRF deputies
Feb 28, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
This strand of the coverage is unquestionably racist (as the linked article argues); but I think the analysis needs to be taken a stage further than that
independent.co.uk/voices/ukraine… Image Bc you might imagine that it was, so to speak, _sincerely_ racist—that there was a pre-existing list of Civilized Peoples Who Are Like Us & a separate list of Uncivilized Peoples It Is Ok To Bomb
Feb 3, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
I'm afraid I still find all this bizarre. He didn't actually _say_ Sir Keir was involved in the decision: he said he was director of public prosecutions (which he was) & he didn't prosecute (which he didn't). It's at least an arguable claim
bbc.co.uk/news/60213975 Compared to the things that get thrown around at other politicians (other leaders of the Labour Party, indeed) this is not a shocking scandalous outrageous line
Feb 3, 2022 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Interesting task by @Zaid_ISN. A few scattered thoughts from me: first of all, useless innovations can be useless in different ways & I'm not sure all the examples Zaid gives are really no use to _anybody_ I hasten to establish that I am also an enemy of the space-age superbins & have been grumbling about them for years (which must mean they are a #serious #annoyance bc as you know grumbling is not my way)
Jan 11, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Are you though Can't you though
Jan 10, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Not sure; but the conditions in the 2000s were ok in fact. At the 2005 GE Respect won one seat & got one reasonably close second place (3300 votes behind the winner), plus two distant seconds; that's better than the Greens in 2019 (one win & two even more distant second places) Obviously the overall vote share was much much smaller, but that's bc there were only a fraction as many candidates in places where they were never going to win
Dec 31, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
This is true—but there's a further point, which is that deciding to support & campaign for Labour on the basis that it would be a bit better than the Conservatives (even assuming it would be) just means we'll be facing the same miserable choice next time & forever If you want better options, you need to support & create them—even if that means not prioritizing getting the govt you'd (arguably) hate marginally less in the interim
Nov 1, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Suppose you could argue given it's the PM that he'd be doing it fatuously whatever he did; but this way of posing the question is itself more than a little, y'know One of the biggest obstacles stopping the general public taking the climate situation fully seriously—I suspect, the biggest obstacle—is politicians who _talk_ as though it's an existential global crisis but _act_ as though it's nothing to worry about
Sep 28, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I'm not talking abt Big Names With Platforms, who can be assumed to have known what they were doing re Sir Keir; but the fact large numbers of left-leaning members got duped does I'm afraid say something abt what the organized left had been explaining to people & what it hadn't To many people on the left, inside Labour & out, it was transparently clear that Sir K was the candidate of anti-Corbynist revenge & authoritarian Blairism; but many other people, also more or less on the left, couldn't see it at all
Sep 27, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
What has to happen before we admit we now know what the strategic & tactical answer is Really doesn't seem as though everyone's quite taking seriously the fact that the best-case-scenario ideal daydream of the pro-Labour left actually happened & we can see what it achieved & what it didn't
Apr 16, 2020 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Anger needs to lead through to clarity. The Blairites _hate you_, far more viciously than they hate the Tories, far more viciously than you hate them, & the only terms on which they will cooperate with you are your total submission. They'll let you pay your subs & do the leg work The Lab left hasn't tended to act as though it gets that. Corbyn always behaved as though it was possible to reach an amicable working relationship with the Blairites. "We're all Labour." Nope: they would much prefer the Tories to win than a Labour Party they don't control 100%
Aug 28, 2019 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Breaking news: the prime minister, Boris Johnson, will reportedly seek to suspend Parliament The speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, is thought to oppose the move