Visit from Swedish comrade

[Socialist Party Head Office]

A couple of visitors from Sweden will be visiting London who are here on holiday for a week from Friday and have said they want to hang out withSocialist  Party members.

A guided tour of Marx's haunts in Central London has been organised for Wednesday 7 January. All welcome. Details here:

http://www.meetup.com/The-Socialist-Party-of-Great-Britain/events/219515635/

We will also be entertaining them on Saturday 3 January for a drink and a meal (or vice versa).

Any member or sympathiser is welcome. Meet at Head Office at 6pm. We will then go to the Craft Beer Company pub (ex-Manor Arms) in Clapham Manor Street (first turning to the right when going up the road from Head Office). So if you're arrive after 6.30 that's where everybody will be.

Happy New Year from Head Offic.e

[Socialist Party Head Office]

Here's a report on this.On 7 January, a short walk was made by Socialists around Soho and Fitzrovia. Despite the midday, mid-week timing, necessary to coincide with the visit of Albin and Swantje, from Sweden, there was a good turnout (a dozen). We viewed the old Red Lion pub, where the iconic Communist Manifesto was presented to the Communist Workers’ Education Society, Marx’s house in Dean Street, scene of the dire poverty which killed off three of his children, and the home of the First International in Greek Street, which, as our comrade Danny Lambert reminded us, was the venue for the first reading of the Socialist classic Value, Price and Profit. We then proceeded across Soho Square and Oxford Street to the vicinity of Fitzroy Square, for nigh forty years around the turn of the last century, stomping ground of the Communist Club. The latter, the guide explained, was the successor to the Communist Worker’s Education Society, habituated by friends of Marx, as well as other late nineteenth century notables, such as William Morris. The club was also the first headquarters of our own Party, thus forming a neat link between past and present.

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