Seven days for Socialism

[jondwhite]

Does anyone have any more details of this? The talk titles and speakers? It was mentioned in another topic.

[ALB]

These were activities (indoor and outdoor meetings, selling the Standard door to door) organised by the Party in the 1960s and 1970s. It was also the title of a supplement to the September 1967 Socialist Standard which carried articles from all the Companion Parties. The 7 days were the week 3-10 September. But this wouldn't have been the only one. Here's the report on that one:https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/1960s/1967/no-758-october-1967/week-meetings-londonThe Irish party organised one in October 1963, in fact this might be where the idea came from:https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/1960s/1964/no-715-march-1964/letter-irelandSelling the Standard door to door (canvassing) died out years ago as has selling it in pubs though that lasted a longer into the 1980s.

[jondwhite]

Thanks!

[alanjjohnstone]

I first joined i think in 1971 and it was when the Edinburgh Br were running 7 Days for Socialism, a series of public meetings with that title.There was no door-to-door selling of the Standard, AFAIK. 

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