No doubt all attending this gathering gained a different experience, conditioned by an interplay of so many previous factors that evade description, however I will attempt to express my impressions, perhaps more of an artistic impression than a high definition photo, but if I remember correctly someone did ask what art had to do with revolution and though I had no immediate response, I think - a lot. Maybe this subjective take is ''all my arse'' as my plain speaking departed grandmther would say, what we need is more c over v divided by S times the number of workers who have no clue as to what I am talking about, but my waffle may bear fruit and I'm willing to make a mistake and lose a few revolutionary reputation points to try a different angle. That's the freedom and possibility the revolutionary 'spirit' inspires, again how our scientific comrades evaluate my 'spirit' I am unsure.

Firstly in these days of economic insecurity, deciding to buy a train ticket to a short meeting in a city miles away is worthy of a thought. Why bother? I'll let that thought rest as I think I answer it later.

The journey there was of minor interest, I somehow missed a train got on another but arrived at Manchester Picadilly at 13.02 as I had previously said I would, and disoriented in a strange stsation I was really pleased to meet comrade Cleish.

Great is thy faithfulness.

This man whose work I have followed for 20 years met me off the train and we hugged in a way that I hug my son and for a moment the Christ had returned to this earth in this chaos of trains and timetables and decades of ICT/ICC/Lenin/Bordiga/Marx...

I go too far or not far enough.

Comrade G appears and this holy trinity hit the Friends' meeting house.

We have initials,anarchists and communists, older and younger, the nuanced testaments to a new world, a pregnancy whose presence we all share, and the dialectical unity and division in the circle of revolutionaries, the desire for the vague time beyond the present and reality of so many obstacles in our way.

The presentation emphasised the new times, the weight of capitalist crisis, the lack of options for the ruling class outsid of attacking the working class which in turn would worsen the crisis, shrinking markets, provoking more social protest, the nature of which had already taken on some very threatening forms for the ruling class as capitalism itself has slowly become the focus of a global protest movement in the shape of OCCUPY, yet no one present had any doubt that the severe limits of this movement were going to go away any time soon, and the sober assessment was that the outlook was one of a protracted period of attacks on the working class aided by the forces of collaboration in the shape of the left and the unions.

However there is no doubt that obvious dead end of capitalism only capable of producing declining working class conditions, in a context where the immense potential destruction of generalised imperialist world war no longer represents a viable option, even if it cannot be absolutely dismissed as a possibility if we fail in our revolutionary task which is obviously an unthinkable option (answers the train ticket cost!), is the perfect context for the building of the revolutionary organisation.

This theme met no opposition , despite possible qualms about the PARTY word, all gathered could see the need for an organised instrument for the generalisation of revolutionary class consciousness, the erradication of hopeless reformist illusion and the coronation of the true, anti-capitalism, the destruction of capitalism and the rule of the workers' councils.

And here we had our glue, our spirit, our vine, the need for a revolutionary organisation, not to rule but to usher in the class rule, the era of the workers' councils as the sole authority.

Against the background of capitalist decay, the communist beauty shines ever brighter.

This organisation of revolutionaries is the key to the question most discussed at the meeting, how to spread the revolutionary consciousness.

It is this organisation that has to penetrate the organs of defense the inevitable class struggle produces. We don't want to usurp but to influence the workers' independent organisation, work within.

The meeting may not have been huge, but it was a taste of what must come. The unity of revolutionaries, essential principles do not prevent our acting together, the hammer blows of capitalism and our own recognition in our weapon of unity bring us together to a need for combining beyond weak and isolated nuclei.

The future is communist. There is no point considering otherwise, the timescale may remain unknown, but the outcome over capitalist anihilation must not be allowed. Who accepts that outcome is defeated. We play to win.

The meeting may have been just one more lamentation or a threshold crossed. The revolutionary family gathered as one rather than fragmented in separation as every exploited atomised worker is , host to the capitalist parasites.

Good meeting, a step forward, this must continue.

Communism must prevail.

I accept no excuses!