Extinction Rebellion appearing at SWP's Marxism Festival 2019

[Fuckedoffat48b]

Extinction Rebellion are supposed to be appearing at SWP's Marxism Festival 2019 in July.

I think this is a cynical ploy to encourage young activists who have not heard of the Comrade Delta scandal, to legitimise the event of a rape cult.

How could I/is anyone willing to put together a letter educating young activists about the dangers of the SWP and calling on them to stand down from the conference?

Hi there fuckedoff (me too), are you a member of Extinction Rebellion? Because it's not one single group that could appear or not appear at something. It's an collection of autonomous groups all over the world. Any of those groups or even individuals could choose to go to any festival and set up an XR information stall (for example; I presume that is what this is about). There are some vague principles that you have to abide by if you want to do something in the name of XR. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_Rebellion#Stated_principles

Who do you think is it a cynical ploy by? The SWP? They cannot force anyone to attend their festival. I think you and I would agree about how shitty the SWP are, in many ways, including rape apologism. I would not go anywhere near such a festival and I get pissed off when they turn up at XR rallies with their stupid placards with catch-all reusable slogans. This issue came up at my XR branch recently when some people wanted to go to the Dump Trump thing. The only thing we can do though is present people with the facts from our perspective and hope they change their mind. XR is not a hierarchy, we don't take orders from anyone inside or outside of the movement.

Oh and forgot to say, in our group at least, people are quite "on it" about the dangers of the SWP and I expect people in the XR movement generally do have access to the kind of information you would put in your letter. So I think that what you are suggesting is already out there. It's just that some people don't get it... and there are always those, sadly.