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Funny you should mentioned Project 2025. There’s a longstanding American left communist sympathizer on Urban 75 who’s currently stanning for Biden in this election cycle – especially doubling-down in the aftermath of Biden’s disastrous debate performance – specifically because of Project 2025. He’s convinced it’s a game changer for accelerating America down a road to a right wing dictatorship. He’s adamant that Biden has to defeat Trump in November, and gets very defensive when people point out Biden’s personal and political shortcomings.
Maybe ‘funny’ is the wrong word in the circumstances.
I didn’t vote but the psephological geek in me is looking forward to the 2024 equivalent of some Portillo moments tonight, and wondering if Starmer will display a hitherto hidden sense of humour by doing that St Francis of Assisi speech on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street tomorrow morning.
Thomas Piketty chimes in with some left reformism:
Fair play to all comrades involved in putting forward the real alternative during this latest election circus.
Via the Financial Times, interesting breakdown of the vote in the French parliamentary elections:
Something to bookmark for future reference. It comes via Peter Oborne, who is one of the more interesting political commentators:
Twiglet’s correct.
First prize is a mint condition 7 inch of the follow up single to the Lotus Eaters’ ‘First Picture of You’.
Billy Connolly and the SPGB is mentioned in Jim Fleming’s obituary from the April 2022 issue of the Socialist Standard:
http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2022/05/obituary-jim-fleming-2022.html
The leader of the French Communist Party, Fabien Roussel, lost his seat to a RN candidate.
This is a seat – Nord’s 20th constituency – that had been held by the French Communist Party since the early 1960s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord%27s_20th_constituency#2024
“On the front page of his leaflet he prints “Clowns on the left, jokers on the right, here I am stuck in the middle with you”. Perhaps one of the music-lovers here can dig out the original song as a forgotten classic.”
Maybe he’s a fan of old Socialist Standard front covers?
PS – There is a Kevin Bacon like connection between the writer of that song and the SPGB. Can anyone guess, or do I send it on to Manchester Branch for their Christmas Quiz?
I take it you’ve heard of this board game?
The Sunday Times, the Financial Times and the Economist have all come out in calling for a Labour Party victory:
“Definitely not him. He went on to join the Labour Party and even, I think, became a Labour councillor.”
Different spelling.
Another renegade? For shame, for shame.
“The independent candidate for Clapham and Brixton Hill, Jon Key, called in at our office this morning.”
One for the anoraks.
There was a party speaker and writer called Jon Keys, who was active in the 50s and 60s:
http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/search/label/Jon%20Keys
