1905 conference photo misused

November 2024 Forums World Socialist Movement 1905 conference photo misused

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    jondwhite
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    I see the 1905 SPGB conference photo has been used as the cover image for a video uploaded a year ago about the old Communist Party here

    https://vimeo.com/106362457

    #115462
    ALB
    Keymaster

    Gresham College is presumably named after Sir Thomas Gresham of Gresham's Law that "Bad money drives out good". They seem to be testing this by putting bad publicity (using a picture of working men from the 1900s to illustrate a talk on middle class "Communists" in the 1930s) into circulation to see if it really will drive out good publicity.I would have thought that a formal protest is in order on at least two grounds (1) that it's a photo of working men not "middle class" and (2) that we've always had no association, except for opposition and contempt, with the Communist Party

    #115463
    alanjjohnstone
    Keymaster

    But they are certainly turned out in the Sunday best and most sporting fob watchesI was struck by the design of the banner on the left side…an angel of something or other…and the rising dawn…Do we have any other images of it …or what it depicts?

    #115464
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Aye, nee jeans and T shirts for them! They dressed proppa 

    #115465
    jondwhite
    Participant

    You can look at the image more closely on Wikimedia commons but it is acknowledged this is was an angelic figure. Were burning torches used in conjunction with the FC Watts classic emblem on the covers of early pamphlets?

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