In my misguided youth, I sort of participated in a (successful) collective action to "no platform" John Carlisle. http://bit.ly/13o7WBe 1/
Here's the thing. If you were on the Left in the UK in the 1980s, you were powerless - Thatcherism had won the political argument. 2/
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So you kind of looked for little, local victories, expressions of resistance and defiance. It didn't really have much to do with... 3/
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the specific issues, or even wider political principles. It was tribal, and it was about winning - just occasionally.
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