Blast from the past

[Young Master Smeet]

I was just talking to someone about this last week:

http://averypublicsociologist.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/swp-statement-on-is-list.html

Quote:

Accordingly, members of the SWP are instructed not to use the IS-List. They are, of course, free to communicate by e-mail and to use the internet in other ways, but they should take the same care with security, particularly with comrades' names and addresses, as they should when talking on the telephone. Comrades who disagree with this decision are free to argue for its reversal in the pre-conference discussion period that is forthcoming, but they are still bound by our decision. Any failure to observe it will be subject to disciplinary action.

Oh, the Irony, that it was leaks on the internet that rocked the SWP a year or two ago (and the lead leaker is now a Labour candidate in Swindon).  This deserves to be a famous historical document.  And, say what you might, it also shows how differently we have reacted, and adopted communication technology.

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