Mick Hume - Journalist and former RCP Member
Mick Hume, now writing in the Daily Mail, thinks the eco-activists are running riot and the police have lost control.
Is this the same Marxist, Mick Hume, who was once a member of a tiny but influential Trotskyist sect, called the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP)? He once wrote for their in-house magazine called 'Living Marxism' and also writes for their online journal, 'Spiked' edited by Brenden O'Neil.
Of course, Mick is not the only Commie that took the shilling and can turn on a dime. His former RCP colleague, Munira Murza, co-authored the 2019 Conservative Party Manifesto, and before resigning, was the head of the No 10 Policy Unit, under Boris Johnson.
Dozy Boris, even nominated Murza's former RCP comrade, Clair Fox to the House of Lords, in spite of her support for the IRA and the Warrington bombers who killed two children. She now sits as Baroness Fox of Buckley and runs something called the 'Institue of Ideas'. How laughable that these careerist, charlatans, and opportunists, call themselves Revolutionary Communists.
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Those of us who remember these pseudo-communists zealots first hand can confirm they were neither remotely revolutionary nor communist.
They did however do a nice line in designer suits & elitism without as far as I can recall a single genuine working class or proletarian voice amongst their predominantly bourgeois and elitist upper echelons of the party structure. LM was sold in WH Smiths whilst the RCP broadsheet was distributed with a slightly scary degree of fanaticism & enthusiasm previously restricted to Trot Socialist Worker sellers communing each weekend with the masses on the street corner by gullible but politically idealistic students at demos & street corners.
At the time I was living in an Anarcho-Syndicalist Cardiff squat whilst my girlfriend of the time took a degree in English literature it always struck me at the time how these wanabee revolutionaries of the RCP never ever ventured into the tough working class communities of Splott , Butetown or Tiger Bay least they inadvertently bumped into a genuine prole when the huge class disconnect in terms of accent & background became laughingly and obviously apparent to all present. Their huge credibility gulf ensured that they haunted the periphery of the genuine & well organised well established Left in the city of Cardiff and across South Wales.
Nothing quite so comic as seeing an earnest RCP cadre urging a miner from Aberdare resisting fascist attacks on NUM offices to realise his latent class consciousness and join the ' historic class struggle' before fucking off back to mater & pater in the Home Counties each & every university vacation!
It was clear to me even then that if it ever came down to it that theses RCP tossers would not be on the same side of the barricades as me and my community and were a positive hinderance and impediment to the politically organised & politicised working class. A haunting & sickening sense of deja vu I now feel about Starmers revisionist & neutered Labour Party. Who are currently proactively selling out Britain's Working class before we actually even begin a General Strike - at least in 1926 they allowed workers the pretence of solidarity before selling us out to the British establishment & ruling class !
Still as we all know the RCP was not alone in acting as a magnet for careerist & political opportunists one only has to look at the number of former Tankies & self-proclaimed Libertarians now rattling round the Westminster Media circus or Parliament trying to auction off what's left of their soul to the highest bidder.
Prescient here perhaps to recall the late great Joe Strummers lyrics |
And every gimmick hungry yob digging gold from rock and roll
Grabs the mic to tell us he'll die before he's sold
But I believe in this and it's been tested by research
He who fucks nuns will later join the church !
(Songwriters: Topper Headon / Mick Jones / Paul Simonon / Joe Strummer/ The Clash
Death or Glory / London Calling /1979 )
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