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I like Kathy Burke’s reply. Short and succinct:
From the official Labour Party Twixxer account:
https://x.com/UKLabour/status/1805980078582509627
No words.
True story: Jeremy Corbyn used to write the occasional column for the Socialist Organiser newspaper back in the 1980s. (I’m not claiming he was a fellow traveller of the SO. I just think it was mutually convenient for both of them.)
SO was the predecessor organisation of today’s Alliance for Workers Liberty. Fast forward to 2024, and they’re calling for a vote for Corbyn’s Labour opponent in Islngton North:
https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2024-06-19/vote-labour-everywhere
Comedy gold.
Is it just me or does Aslef’s Mick Whelan look like he’s in a hostage video?
The CPB got an endorsement (of sorts) from JK Rowling on Twixxer:
She has 14.1 million followers on Twixxer.
“. . . and especially in political theory circles”
Sorry, I think there’s an element of busman’s holiday to your post.
As much as I get annoyed sometimes with how ‘introductory’ the SPGB is with its propaganda, it’s to its eternal credit that it has always aimed to propagate socialism – sorry, I prefer the s-word – to as wide an audience as possible, and that goes well beyond academic conferences, symposiums and other assorted circle-jerk events.
Apologies, for the inverted snobbery. I think I’ve been inundated with one too many spam emails from Jacobin, Cosmonaut and Verso Books this morning.
Still one of my favourite political tunes. The beauty of it is that works both pre-July 4th and post-July 4th:
DJP wrote:
“Most people that understand socialism in the non-market sense will not have learnt it from the SPGB and most likely never even heard of it.”
I’m not sure how you can measure this and, if put on the spot, I’d say more people have learnt/heard of ‘non-market socialism’ via the SPGB than you’d think.
I’m dismissing your anecdotal evidence . . . and replacing it with my own anecdotal evidence. (Where’s the emoticons in this place? I want to insert a cheeky, winky face.)
With regards to Corbyn standing as a left of Labour candidate (or, rather, the Labour Party left him) in his Islington patch, it looks like his Labour opponent, Praful Nargund, is avoiding all the local hustings meetings.
Can Young Master Smeet confirm this is the case?
Some articles and book reviews relating to Chomsky from old Socialist Standards:
February 1970: American Power and the New Mandarins. Noam Chomsky:
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2019/11/uncle-sam-is-wicked-1970.htmlFebruary 1994:Book Review: Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies. Noam Chomsky
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2017/08/necessary-illusions-1994.htmlAugust 1995: Noam Chomsky – Rights and Lefties
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2014/02/noam-chomsky-rights-and-lefties.htmlAugust 1998: Chomsky’s Weakness
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2006/05/chomskys-weakness.htmlMarch 2001: Book Review: Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs. Noam Chomsky
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2020/03/the-biggest-rogue-2001.htmlJuly 2004: Book Review: Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance. Noam Chomsky.
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2010/01/chomsky-on-global-super-power.htmlAugust 2006 Book Review: Wolfgang Sperlich: Noam Chomsky. Reaktion Books.
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2006/07/chomsky.htmlAugust 2010: Book Review: Hopes and Prospects. Noam Chomsky.
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2010/08/common-sense-raised-to-genius.htmlAugust 2014: Book Review: On Anarchism. Noam Chomsky:
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2014/08/against-state-but-not-quite-yet.htmlMay 2020: Book Review: Internationalism or Extinction. Noam Chomsky:
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2020/05/fixing-system-2020.htmlOctober 2020: US elections: The lesser-evil fallacy:
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2023/10/us-elections-lesser-evil-fallacy-2020.htmlI hope that the editors of the Standard consider publishing a critical obituary of Chomsky and his politics, as they have done in the past with such political figures as Tony Cliff, Ted Grant, Michael Foot, etc.
Local voter Ronnie O’Sullivan has just endorsed Faiza Shaheen in Chingford & Woodford:
https://x.com/faizashaheen/status/1802723206328959402
That’s sorted out next month’s Action Replay column, then.
I’m sorry but this is just bloody weird at this point. Has a Labour Party SPAD told him that he needs to reach out to floating voters in 1953 Tunbridge Wells?
There was also a book written in the early 2000s by an SWPer, entitled ‘Tressell, the Real Story of the Ragged Trousered Philanthropists’.
There was critical review of said book in the December 2003 issue of the Socialist Standard:
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2006/02/robert-tressell-and-ragged-trousered.html
Phil BC (A Very Public Sociologist) just resigned his Labour Party membership after 14/15 years:
https://averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com/2024/06/leaving-labour.html
I remember him originally when he was in the CPGB/Weekly Worker group – he wrote a short piece on the SPGB in 2004 wittily entitled ‘100 Years of Solitude’ – and was, I believe, a member of SPEW for a couple of years after CPGB/Weekly Worker before eventually joining the Labour Party.
I wonder where he will go next?
