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There was an Independent Socialist Party in the 1930s. It was a split from the Independent Labour Party.
Nice spot.
My guess is that his contributions will be based on the trilogy of short books that Barltrop wrote which were published by (I think) Waltham Forest Libraries back in the 80s.
If you’re wondering, this is the Socialist Standard that Ron Melia had on the sofa next to him. It’s the June 1962 issue. You can read it in its entirety here.
Just stumbled across this wee 13 minute documentary on YouTube which features Ron Melia (stage name Ronnie Ross), which dates from 1963/4. If you blink you’ll miss it, but I spotted a Socialist Standard on his sofa at the 1 minute mark.
You wrote and I listened.
Shocking that no one has mentioned that there was a late SPGBer who had a brief cameo in ‘Pennies From Heaven’.
“I don’t know if this is a coincidence or whether this blogger has been following this thread but here’s what he’s just put up from 25 years ago.”
A coincidence. I just wanted to listen to some music from 1995 . . . and very good it was too.
The music/scanning angle is a bit of a bugger when I’m scanning in stuff from 1919, though.
It’s been a while.
Hello all,
Just a bit of fun.
At the time of writing, listed below are the most popular Socialist Standard articles on the blog from a particular year. It stands to reason that the longer an article or review has been on the blog, the more ‘hits’ it has, but that is not always the case. Some articles of a more theoretical bent have received successive waves of hits years after they were originally posted on the blog. Hopefully that’s food for thought for current writers and editors of the Standard. (Yes, I know I’m contradicting myself a bit here.)
To access the articles, just click on the individual years:
http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2020/05/lazy-sunday-afternoon.html
That article missed a trick not including the Party’s photograph from its first Annual Conference in 1905, which was taken at the Communist Club.
What about an online Summer School for 2020?
I make no claims to knowing the ins and outs of what it would take to do this tech wise, but maybe some of the speakers who were pencilled in speak at this year’s Summer School could deliver their talks online, and the videos could be uploaded to YouTube.
What’s the feasibility of live streaming such talks, etc to provide more interaction?
PS – Before anyone pipes up with the reply of ‘Well, what are you going to do about it?’
- I’m not tech savvy enough to undertake such a task. I’m just floating the idea for feedback. I’m presuming many of the speakers will already have their talks in place.
- I hope forum readers will appreciate that I’m already doing my ’10 minutes for socialism’ propaganda online, so it’s not a case of me wanting to dump work on the shoulders of other comrades.
Welcome to the wonderful world of the WSM, Jack. (What tongue? What cheek?)
If you have a penchant for old stuff, be sure to check out my Socialist Standard archive side project:
Socialist Standard Past & Present blog
It’s updated pretty much every day . . . if I’m not playing darts.
Be sure to check out my additional comments. I have more useless and obscure information about the SPGB than you can shake a stick at.
all the best
