Two new Party pamphlets
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‘Sylvia Pankhurst on Socialism’ – soon to be published at £1.00 (+£1.50 p+p)
Now available…
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‘Sylvia Pankhurst on Socialism’ – Now obtainable from the online store:
I wonder if it i a good idea for the publications committee to contact media committee an acquire the appropriate lists of contact emails so to promote our literature. I believe Media have created an extensive list for press-releases
Would it be spam to send off notifications of new pamphlets to editors an sub-editors and organisations? I wouldn’t have thought so
I wonder if it i a good idea for the publications committee to contact media committee an acquire the appropriate lists of contact emails so to promote our literature. I believe Media have created an extensive list for press-releases
Can the Media Committee not just go ahead and promote our literature as it comes on stream? Isn’t that part of their brief? Personally I would encourage them and indeed, any individual member, to go ahead and take the initiative of promoting this literature. I think this is a weak link with the Party. We are starting at long last to step up the output but we are not doing nearly enough to promote it. It is disheartening to learn that a lot of literature is just sitting there languishing in HO…
“Can the Media Committee not just go ahead and promote our literature as it comes on stream? Isn’t that part of their brief? Personally I would encourage them and indeed, any individual member, to go ahead and take the initiative of promoting this literature. I think this is a weak link with the Party.”
The Media Committee, though staffed, is currently moribund and has been for several years. And you’re right, Robin, this is an exceedingly weak link in the Party and one of reasons why some of us think there could be a slimming down of sub-committees, with the Media Committee, for example, being merged with the Campaigns Committee.
The General Secretary and an EC member did undertake some promotion of the ‘Zionism’ pamphlet recently which was, in my view, rather limited and half-hearted.
The Media Committee, though staffed, is currently moribund and has been for several years. And you’re right, Robin, this is an exceedingly weak link in the Party and one of reasons why some of us think there could be a slimming down of sub-committees, with the Media Committee, for example, being merged with the Campaigns Committee.
Maybe this is something that ought to be brought to the attention of the EC, Dave. Is it too late for it to be put on the agenda for the December meeting? I think the question of promoting literature is vital and, as I said, if there are any members who want to act on their own initiative , quite apart from any committee, I would encourage them to do so. I make a habit of often linking to party pamphlets or SS articles on various debate forums I frequent
“Maybe this is something that ought to be brought to the attention of the EC, Dave. Is it too late for it to be put on the agenda for the December meeting?”
Yes, it’s going to be brought to the attention of the EC but it’s too late for the December meeting. Besides, there’s many more pressing matters for this Saturday including final consideration of the ‘Banking’ and ‘Luxemburg’ pamphlets… 🙂
“I make a habit of often linking to party pamphlets or SS articles on various debate forums I frequent.”
As do I.
Text of the ‘Pankhurst’ pamphlet can now be read online:
And a new pamphlet commemorating the centenary of the murder of Rosa Luxemburg will be available very early in the New Year. Order now – £2.50 plus an additional £1.50 p+p inland.
“And a new pamphlet commemorating the centenary of the murder of Rosa Luxemburg will be available very early in the New Year. Order now – £2.50 plus an additional £1.50 p+p inland.”
Now arrived – order from Head Office:
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write: 52 Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UNThose women had the courage to confront capitalism. I think the capitalist class has been able to convince more men than women with their ideology
The ‘Rosa Luxemburg on Socialism’ pamphlet has now arrived – order from Head Office:
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Marcos:
With regard to your #154273:
1) I understand your clarification.
2) You say ‘During their [Marx and Luxemburg’s] time the belief was that anti-semitism was a feudal conception,’ […].
Can you tell me in what writings by Luxemburg she dealt with the Jewish Question, or in what secondary literature it has been reported? Obviously you had read things I have not; I have found only scattered remarks by her. I would like to consult her views. Thanks!
The leftists and Leninists are celebrating the anniversary of Rosa Luxembourg, but they only mention her critique toward Bernstein, but they do not talk about her critique made against Lenin and the Russian coup. They do not mention Georgi Plekhanov, and Martov either, who also raised a correct critique against Lenin and the so-called Russian revolution. They think that there were great essentials differences between Mensheviks and Bolsheviks, although, there were certain moments within the early writings of Marx and Engles where they looked like Mensheviks too. The only one who had a clear view of the Russian coup and the real definition of socialism was Martov. Our pamphlet on Rosa Luxembourg covered the real aspects of the body of ideas of Rosa Luxembourg including her stand on the National Question. Ironically, Joseph Stalin was one of the Bolsheviks who had a clear definition of socialism, but, instead, he supported state capitalism like Vladimir Lenin and Trotsky
What about publishing a pamphlet on Lenin ? We have written many articles on Lenin and leninism we can compile them into a phamphlet
It would be a very useful resource but it is also an ambitious one, Marcos. It is a wide subject to cover. Would it concentrate solely on Lenin or encompass Leninism?
Even I have mixed feelings whether Lenin was sincere or a fraud. Was he always a dictator-to-be or was it the conditions that he faced that obliged him to impose a dictatorship over the proletariat rather than a dictatorship of the proletariat? I think you’d find that the Party is not of one mind on this topic.
We have done a couple of history pamphlets now. I think it is time for something of a more contemporary nature.
Nationalism is something we should try to explain and is very relevant in this period of migrants and refugees and populism.
In economics, we should have a response to the Universal Basic Income.
Also a reply to proponents of cooperatives which is gaining in popularity could be helpful.
I believe we have a banking pamphlet already being prepared.
I am sure you also have a wish-list of pamphlets you would like to be published aside from a Lenin one.
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