SALUTE THE GLORIOUS ACHIEVEMENTS OF JUAN POSADAS
The British Posadists are widely considered to be the holy grail of obscure, tiny left wing groups in the UK. So imagine my excitement upon finding a new copy of their paper the Red Flag in London. It consisted of 4 pages of closely typed and clearly manually pasted up material, but at the bargain price of 30p. Two of those pages were articles by the late Juan Posadas himself (on science and Michelangelo).
Possibly the Revolutionary Workers Party - British Section of the Fourth International (Posadist) is cashing in on a recent article in the Fortean Times.
The Posadists are famous primarily not for being yet another dogmatic sect but for their particularly eccentric theories. Most famously they believed that flying saucers were evidence of socialist societies in outer space (because Marxism 'proves' that capitalism cannot develop the productive forces needed to reach the required level of technology). More worryingly they were rather keen on the idea of a pre-emptive nuclear attack on the imperialist powers by the USSR and China.
Certainly they are still using the same sort of slogans mentioned in the article "Such appeals for pre-emptive nuclear strikes by the Communist superpowers were accompanied by a techie fanboy’s admiration for the latest Sino-Soviet nuclear hardware. The pages of the British Section’s paper Red Flag were filled with the praises of the Workers’ States’ newest nuclear weaponry: “WE SALUTE THE LAUNCHING OF THE CHINESE MISSILE WITH AN ATOMIC WARHEAD, AS A GREAT SCIENTIFIC ADVANCE OF THE WORKERS’ STATE AND A GREAT ENCOURAGEMENT TO THE WORLD MASSES.” "
This time the call is to "SALUTE THE GLORIOUS ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE CHINESE ASTRONAUTS".
There is no website listed for the RWP BSFI (P) nor are there details of subscribing to their paper or joining their group in "red flag", but there is a PO BOX in Birmingham.
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