Splinters
As I spent part of my childhood being bored rigid by Jehovah's Witnesses, and part of my late teens having exactly the same done to me by would-be evangelists from the Militant Tendency, I find it hard to take an interest in the strange after-life of the Revolutionary Communist Party. Still, the blog coverage of Boris's newly appointed cultural advisor, Munira Mirza [left] is pretty diverting. The director of the Social Affairs Unit weighs in: While the Revolutionary Communist Party has ostensibly dissolved itself, its former personnel are still much in evidence and are still operating as a tight-knit group...Munira Mirza herself runs what in less charitable times would have been described as a front organisation - the Manifesto Club. Its strap-line is "history is still young". This might seem just an anodyne bit of snappy copy, but it fits rather well into what is the overall perspective of the Revolutionary Communist Party coterie. Their perspective is that Marx is right, only that previous Marxists have got the timing wrong
Harry's Place has more. Mirza, meanwhile, has given her first press interview to the Standard, taking aim at political correctness in the funding of the arts.