davecoggan
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FreeCharter FAQ’s are hilarious. Ok, not really, but we’ve heard all the objections before.
My favourite is ‘Is this a cult or religion?’
LOLCouldn’t think where else to post this. It’s a 1983 Soviet anti-war short. Quite thought provoking and profound in its own way. Demonstrates that it only takes one match (pun intended, watch the film) to begin a conflagration that results in everyone being destroyed.
This is for everyone who attended Summer School, and for everyone who didn’t.
That’s What Work Is Tom Russellhttps://www.jonathancohenweb.com/franco.html
PEDRO MIR AND HIS COUNTERSONG
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/03/26/pablo-nerudas-poetry-of-resistance/
What We Can Learn from Neruda’s Poetry of Resistance
The Paris Review 26 March, 2016
I don’t think, at least I hope, I’m in a minority of one when it comes to championing poetry.
Some song lyrics can obviously be quite profound and read as poetry. At the recent Summer School there was a booklet distributed which contained poems, and a song, on the topic of work. Not McGonagle but including Larkin and D H Lawrence. There are many examples out there of anti -capitalist and pro-socialism poems. There is a joy in sharing music that others may, or may not be familiar with. I hesitate to suggest that only philistines would not want to do the same with poetry. Percy Shelley’s Masque of Anarchy final stanza is no doubt often quoted by socialists.
I would have to disagree strongly that poetry is not decorous. The SOYMB blog has a resident poet where his very apposite thoughts regularly appear.
There is no right or wrong way of interpreting poetry. Dylan Thomas’s Do not go gently into that good night, Rage rage.. can be utilised as an anti- capitalist poem. Next time I’m out with a spray can writing Abolish Capitalism! graffiti I might have to add underneath, Poetry Rocks!John Donne’s Holy Sonnet 14, titled “Batter my heart,” asks God to increase the strength of divine force to win over the poet’s soul. The poet begins by asking God to use force to assault his heart, like battering down a door. Donne blends elements of the Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet with the English (Shakespearean) sonnet. He begins in the Italian form abba abba, but his concluding idea in the third quatrain bleeds over into the rhyming couplet that completes the poem.0 The poet is picturing an afflicted lover of God who is hurt because he is deviated from the holy path to the sinful path.
It would nice to post poetry here too.In Iran the State tries to impose dress codes on women. I.e. the wearing of hijabs and long, loose fitting clothing. Iranian woman have been fighting back against this for some time. An article in The International Correspondent says that the Iranian State is now resorting to Chinese surveillance technology and putting its morality police back on the streets in its efforts to enforce this.
Would Iranian women, and men, be more likely to look upon socialism favourably if they were aware of our attitude toward religion?
Genuine question: does this fight back constitute a reform that the SPGB could fully support or do we say this is down to religion and we don’t have skin in this game so it’s not an issue for us? Iran is capitalist too.
There are many struggles of one sort or another going on all over the world and mostly it all comes down to capitalism of course.
There’s no argument is there that we support the Iranian working class in the ongoing class struggle but where do the rights of women not to be oppressed fall?Just discovered this Oliver Stone film: Ukraine on Fire.
What do others who are already familiar with this film make of it?Who can forget the photograph, an iconic image, of
Phan Thị Kim Phúc the nine-year-old child taken at Trảng Bàng during the Vietnam War on June 8, 1972.
She was running down the road after being caught up in a napalm attack carried out by the South Vietnam Air Force, She was severely burned.
Nixon apparently questioned the authenticity of the photograph. This image, once seen, cannot be forgotten. There are probably many more pictures that show the horrors of war, for e.g. Hiroshima, concentration camps, First World War battlefields, add your own, but this one is particularly gut wrenching.
Was the Vietnam War the most photographed and photo published of any?
Despite this, and other images, the impact is what?
The images shown on social media of the Uk/Rus conflict are more like ones from a video game.
Long distance images of equipment and humans being blown up do not seem to have the same impact.
For emotional force should we mention Guernica (Picasso) too?https://reliefweb.int/report/world/clearing-mines-2020
Clearing the Mines 2020
A sobering read.
I want to wake up sooner rather than later to find that Socialism is sweeping the world.
