I apologise to all and any for detail or names wronged in my recounting. I claim complete ownership of my pride in my involvement that period. What remains an enduring impact for me is the experience that class struggle changes people.
The lessons the ‘Left’ drew were administrative and all about leadership. They pushed the lessons that the TUC can’t be trusted, that Labour Party is not a friend of our class while continuing to try and infiltrate and take over both. Political memories of that sort of thing are relatively short-lived.
What those involved will not unlearn is what it feels like to break with the normality of life under capitalism and, the experience of genuine community and solidarity. This for me was the highpoint. The key point. It continues to point the way forward.
[Updated Oct. 2024, Brighton bombing was at the end of the Tory party conference not the beginning.]