Category Archives: Respect Party

Election gossip latest

Posted on April 14, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

A couple of snippets just in … Bristol’s Respect Party are likely to be running four candidates in the local elections on June 4. Energetic troublemaker Jerry Hicks will be running again in Lockleaze while the excellently named Prince-Abdulaziz has … Continue reading →

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Achtung Palestina!

Posted on February 18, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

I see Bristol’s contribution to George Galloway’s glorious Viva Palestina! convoy has set forth on their mercy mission to the holy land. And is it really a surprise that indefatigable George is bravely leading from the front in a brand … Continue reading →

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Extremely moderate or moderately extreme?

Posted on January 20, 2009 by The Bristol Blogger

A few people have commented on this blog have that I’m obsessed with – and grant far too much significance to – “irrelevant far left groupuscules” with no wider influence during my ruminations on the Israel/Palestine conflict. I may well … Continue reading →

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Saturday night at the movies

Posted on March 15, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Two new films about the Railway Path here. Both, in their own way, are far more representative of the traditional left than unwashed hippy “Green Protestors” the Cancer would have you believe. One features Labour’s prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Bristol … Continue reading →

Posted in Bristol, Bristol West, Developments, Easton, Eastville, Environment, Hillfields, Labour Party, Lawrence Hill, Local government, Politics, Respect Party, The Downs, Transport, WESP | Tagged , | There are 31 comments

Meet big brave Rees, hero of "the resistance"

Posted on March 2, 2008 by The Bristol Blogger

Herr Kommandant John Rees Speaking alongside the right wing Islamist fanatic Ibrahim Mousawi at Friday’s Reichsmeeting of Bristol’s Stop the War Coalition was none other than John Rees. This nasty little goatee-bearded mini-Fuhrer is actually a west country boy from … Continue reading →

Posted in Activism, Bristol, Middle East, Politics, Respect Party, The British Left, The Trots, West Country | Tagged , , , , | There are 6 comments

Breaking news: Bristol Respect Party collapses

Posted on November 29, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

News coming in that the Bristol Respect Party is in a state of advanced collapse after a Socialist Workers Party coup at a branch meeting on Wednesday. Respect in Bristol have gained some good election results over the last couple … Continue reading →

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Hicks quits SWP

Posted on October 28, 2007 by The Bristol Blogger

Life long socialist Jerry Hicks, the former AEU/Amicus convenor at Rolls Royce in Bristol, who was dismissed in dubious circumstances in 2005, has quit the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), describing the Respect Party in which they are key coalition partners … Continue reading →

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