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Thanks Jonathan, check your private messages if you have not already.

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Hi Jonathan,Thoughtful considerations, I appreciate them.There has been a lot going on behind the scenes which people are not aware of. The internet department checks that moderation is fair and unbiased. Most of the other members (6 in total) of the department do not post on the forum.The trouble is that the forum runs 24/7 and a single person cannot be expected to keep an eye on it at all times.With regards to training, it turns out that one of the members of the department is trained in conflict resolution – perhaps this could be of use to us.With regards to electing moderators, volunteers are not very forthcoming – for reasons that I am sure you can appreciate! It's with reluctance that I am having to fill this role presently. Such a change would also have to go through conference.We can discuss ideas here but ultimately any major changes will have to come through branches and conference.Though I feel the real problem lies in people not being able to moderate themselves.

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jondwhite wrote:

Any official SPGB pamphlets should be free from this official website and in mobipocket format (which works on kindle but also on others) and epub.

Noted and agreed with.

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steve colborn wrote:

By the way Admin, "end of story" capitalised, is a "shouted" phrase. It is intimidatory and threatening in this context, doubly so when used by a moderator. Thats my last word on the subject. If the obvious truth cannot be seen and admitted to, then what is the point?Steve.

Well you obviously know my thoughts and intentions when I'm typing better than I do, so who am I to argue with that?I've already apologised if anyone took offense, but I'll do it again..

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TheOldGreyWhistle wrote:

If that is case then I would point out that we have a rule book and I seem to remember some comrades calling for the suspension of whole branches. It is called democracy: If someone is acting undemocratically you have the right to call for their expulsion. Or is this another thing that has changed in the SPGBMoreover. when I  was asked to resign – on this forum –  the member involved was never censored.  Why not?

For clarification. Our lists and our Forum are not part of the decision making apparatus within the party. Calling for the expulsion of people on the lists is not allowed. The appropriate way of dealing with disputes is via the branch, the EC and ADM.These are the democratically decided rules we have, and if the majority wanted to change them they can do so by using the correct democratic decision making machinery I just mentioned.With regards to your second question, no-one has been censored for asking you to resign because no-one HAS asked you to resign!

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Tom Rogers wrote:

As previously stated, the physical fact of race is, to me, empirically self-evident.  By denying this, you deny what is plainly in front of you. 

Of course it cannot be denied that there are slight differences in the DNA of human beings that give rise to different observable physical characteristics. However, which of these observable differences determine "race" and which do not are arbitrary and a social construct.

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Are we?  And if we are, does it follow that race does not exist and is a mere social construct?  

You really should learn something about the origin of the human species. Humans first evolved in Africa and then spread out throughout the world. I would have thought that for the race to have any physical basis there would have to be separate groups of humans with origins from different parts of the world. I far as I understand, the human genome project has proved this not to be the case.

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TheOldGreyWhistle wrote:

I have been censored and suspended on two occasions for a total of 22 days.

You could have avoided having posting rights temporarily suspended by abiding by the rules and not calling for members and volunteers to resign or be expelled from the party. Rest assured anyone else making similar posts will get the same treatment. END OF STORY.

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Tom Rogers wrote:

Just to clarify, are you merely referring to the way that race is constructed within academic disciplines as a concept and then used in discourse on various subjects in wider society or are you actually saying there is no such thing as 'race' as a physically-verifiable fact?

As far as I know it's pretty much the consensus these days that "race" has no solid basis in biology or DNA terms, so it's more meaningful to talk of "ethnicity" or "culture".Science has proved that there's only one race, the human race.http://www.science20.com/adaptive_complexity/what_our_genes_tell_us_about_racehttp://www.science20.com/gerhard_adam/why_race_pseudoscience-92948

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Well the book is currently the number 14 bestseller in the political philosophy section of amazon. Any further help to get it to number one would be greatly appreciated. It's only £1.53!http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bestsellers-Kindle-Store-Political-Philosophy/zgbs/digital-text/362499031/279-2532584-8073303

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Now that I've got an amazon friendly template worked out it shouldn't be too much effort to get the party pamphlets up on kindle as well. There's also probably a lot of mileage in putting the standard out in this format also, just a little bit of research needed to find the correct way of doing so.I'm also looking at Amazon print on demand services for physical copies of the pamphlet, again anything I learn can easily be passed on to the party.

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Give this one a shothttp://theoryandpractice.org.uk/library/sects-and-vanguards-labor-movement-jonathan-ayres-1939

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I like most of Brendan Cooney's stuff. His new introduction to value and price seems pretty clearly written to me:http://kapitalism101.wordpress.com/2012/12/15/value-price-a-draft-script/

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twc wrote:

The base is "social being".The superstructure is "consciousness".The determinism is "base determines superstructure".

It's the first time I've heard "base-superstructure" defined in this way. However you're definition begs the question "what determines social being?"I'm also concerned that your physics may be over 100 years out of date. I await the next installment.

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I've just found a module which should be able to this. I'm planning to do a bunch of development stuff on the site in the new year so will try it out then. http://drupal.org/project/comment_mover

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It is possible to move whole threads to the rubbish bin. Moving single comments is not easily achievable at present.

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