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Isn’t the Lambeth Labour Party notoriously right of centre?
I seem to remember that the Vauxhall CLP nominated Liz Kendall for the Labour Party leadership in 2015.
“While we are wandering off topic, I didn’t realise that in Edinburgh in the mid-1930s there was a strong sectarian Protestant party. You live and learn.”
There was a strong sectarian Protestant party in Liverpool up until the 1970s. Members on the local council.
But, then, Liverpool had an Irish Nationalist MP up until the late 1920s.
Just posted on the blog.
From 1974, the Special 300th issue of the World Socialist Party of the United States old journal, The Western Socialist:
http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-special-300th-issue-of-western.html
The 300th issue was, in effect, a WSPUS pamphlet made up of a selection of transcripts of four- to five-minute radio talks that the Boston comrades of the WSPUS had broadcast in the local Boston area over the previous 10 years.
To quote from Foreward to the Special 300th issue:
“The scripts, sampled herein, run the gamut of socialist propaganda. They are, in effect, a continuing soap-box program and are designed to cast light on the socialist attitude toward the very many questions and problems that confront society in general and the working class in particular. We have had, we think, more responses from these spoken and written messages than from any other single type article. The responses have been mainly favorable but not altogether so. Some of our polemics have infuriated defenders of the Faith and the status quo.”Special mention should be given to the late WSPUS stalwart, Harry Morrison (‘Harmo’), who was the author of these radio talks.
I hope Forum members will find the link of interest.
A “Done & Dusted” catch up special:
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2023/08/a-done-dusted-catch-up-special.html
Sad news. She had a very troubled life marked with very real tragedy.
One of my all time favourite performances. A real protest song.
Thanks for the heads up about the Conference resolution. I generally knew the Party’s position on the reposting/reproduction of articles, etc but it’s good to have the actual wording.
I’ll have to bookmark it for the next time a dickhead tries to make trouble by claiming a bogus copyright on a article or a review from the Standard.
DMCA is an unlawful copyright violation, and it can apply in Britain.
Arguably, the only person (or persons) who could have legitimately pushed for a DMCA notice against the article were the original publishers of the article – the Socialist Standard – or the author of the article, Carl Pinel.
As there’s about 15,000 other Socialist Standard articles on the blog and, of them, about 50 of them were also penned by Carl Pinel, that’s obviously nonsense.
My guess is that someone falsely claimed a copyright violation on the article ‘cos they objected to its subject matter.
FYI:
The Socialist Standard Past & Present blog just received a malicious DMCA notice for an old Socialist Standard article that dates backs to 1995.
So that's a cheap excuse to post a link to said article:https://t.co/aO345UmZaN#SocialistStandard #SPGB @taslimanasreen pic.twitter.com/sy3TdiFGnN
— A Standard Socialist . . . (@standard_and) July 21, 2023
I thought this was an interesting response to it from Peter Oborne:
Peter Oborne Exposes the Nigel Farage Banking Hypocrisy @OborneTweets pic.twitter.com/k3q0j9mVbS
— Double Down News (@DoubleDownNews) July 20, 2023
Just added a Theatre Review page on the blog.
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/p/theatre-reviews.html
Following on from adding a Socialist Standard Film Review page on the blog last year, I’ve decided to now add a Socialist Standard Theatre Review page.
At the time of writing, the page is a chronological list of all the theatre reviews that have appeared in the Socialist Standard down the years that have been posted on the blog. The page will obviously be updated if and when new theatre reviews are added on the blog.
People will notice that some decades are more represented than others. The three most prolific theatre reviewers in the Socialist Standard were Ian Jones in the 1950s, Michael Gill in the 1990s and 2000s, and Steve Clayton in the 2010s.
I was expecting more George Bernard Shaw plays to be reviewed in the Standard, if only because Shaw was regularly at the receiving end of political barbs from SPGBers down the years but it turns out that Ibsen, Brecht and Stephen Poliakoff are the most reviewed playwrights in the Standard.
As with the case of the film reviews (and music reviews) in the Standard, it’s a shame that there are a paucity of reviews in the Standard in the early decades of its history. Especially when you consider that there were many fine Socialist Standard writers who could have quite easily turned their pens to such subjects. I guess the Party’s been a weird at times at addressing ‘culture’ in its official publications. Scared that a review of an Irvine Welsh novel might split the Party.
