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For those interested in that sort of thing, just a heads up that the entire issue of the August 1987 Socialist Standard is now online:
Link: August 1987 Socialist Standard
Content includes:
– Interview and debate with Friends of the Earth’s Jonathon Porritt
– The Poll Tax
– One Green World
– Letter on the SPGB and class consciousness
– Capitalism and the Divorce Laws
– A Workers’ Guide to the Soap Operas
– The obsession about Ireland
– Growing up poor
– Book Review on Cuba
– Film Reviews of Prick Up Your Ears and Working Girls
I’m sure there’s something there for everyone.
A cross-post from SPOPEN.
For those interested in that sort of thing, just a heads up that the entire issue of the January 1969 Socialist Standard is now online:
Link: January 1969 Socialist Standard
Content includes:
– Rosa Luxemburg and the Collapse of Capitalism
– Irish Civil Rights Movement and the Troubles
– The Computer, Karl Marx and the Battery Hens
– Student unrest
– Socialism, Atheism or Religion?
– Book Reviews on Paris ’68, Harold Wilson and French Marxism
Correspondence sent to that email address will be read and responded to. The WSPUS as an organisation is not currently active but there is active WSPUS members.
Hope that is of some help.
It may not be everyone’s cup of tea but I also like this song by Darren Hayman when he was in Hefner:
Good article by ‘Ivan’ on Remembrance Day that dates from 1973:
Sorry, but I hope this is a “work in progress” because as it currently stands the website’s an embarrassment. It’s arguably one of the worst websites I’ve seen in years. YEARS.
If anyone thinks I’m out of order for my comment, please take into account that I spent hundreds of hours keeping the Socialist Standard Past and Present blog updated whilst the Party website was down. I am incredibly frustrated by this.
Major McPharter wrote:Any Tudor crisps and a Pint of vaux.'Tudor crisps"? Someone is showing their age . . . and their fine taste in crisps.
Didn't Bernie Sanders make a 30-minute documentary about Debs in the late 70s/early 80s? Maybe that's online somewhere.
alanjjohnstone wrote:Interesting…This be in the 1940s then, maybe early 1950s, who would the main speakers be?I'm guessing it would have been the likes of John Higgins, Joe Richmond, Alex Shaw, Tony Mulheron and a few others. Dick Donnelly didn't join the SPGB until the late 50s, and Vic Vanni joined the SPGB in Glasgow in the early 60s.
alanjjohnstone wrote:John McGovern and Guy Aldred cited. Sadly no mention of the SPGBGame of Two Halveshttps://books.google.co.th/books?id=RCTpCQAAQBAJ&pg=PT21&lpg=PT21&dq=archie+macpherson+ilp+politics&source=bl&ots=WydsTgn8Cq&sig=PmYFgmQGFbuysLE0uedT60rgvns&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJ4dqlvdraAhWBo48KHX3YALoQ6AEITjAF#v=onepage&q=archie%20macpherson%20ilp%20politics&f=falseI bet I'm the only person on the forum who has actually read that book. I knew from the book that he was from an old ILP family. And, of course, the ILP's McGovern was the MP for Shettleston all through from their disaffiliation from the Labour Party in '32 up until McGovern rejoined the Labour Party at the tail end of the forties. That means that the ILP beat the Labour candidate at the '45 landslide Labour election, so you can understand how deep rooted the support was for the ILP and its candidates in Shettleston, Bridgeton (Maxton's seat) and Camlachie in Glasgow all through the thirties and forties.What I thought was funny about Archie mentioning the SPGB in the podcast was that he intially just gave out the intitials SPGB, and then he made a point of saying the SPGB stood for the Socialist Party of Great Britain.
Found this old short story of George Bernard Shaw's which dates from 1905 in the PDF of a short story collection by Shaw. (Published in the '30s.)I thought I'd post it on the blog because 1) I enjoyed it. 2) I'd like to think that Shaw was having a dig at the impossibilists of his day. (Yes, I know the 'impossibilist' position is more nuanced than Shaw makes out but since when was it necessary to be exact when throwing out political barbs at your opponents?)Link: Death of an Old Revolutionary Hero by George Bernard Shaw (1905)
