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I found a couple of the clips of Fall of Eagles, featuring Patrick Stewart as Lenin. I've not watched them, so apologies if they overlap. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93cdeMAY3cAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urSaGebApQs
I'm guessing you're referring to Trevor Griffiths's Absolute Beginners which was a self-contained episode within the 1974 BBC series Fall of Eagles series. Absolute Beginners was a dramatisation of the 1903 split between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks at the RSDLP second congress in London in 1903. There are clips of the episode on YouTube but I'm not sure if the full episode is available online.Griffiths, I guess, is best known for co-writing the screenplay to Reds, which was Warren Beatty's hollywood blockbuster about John Reed and Louise Bryant.
That's only part 1! I think the film is about five hours long.I enjoyed it when I watched it a few years ago.
Any report back on this debate? I noticed that an SPGBer had a letter published in this week's Weekly Worker, where they mention the debate.
Better late than never, that interview with Tony Benn from the January 1980 issue of the Socialist Standard:Link: Socialists confront Mr Tony Benn
alanjjohnstone wrote:With 2000 signed up LU members registered, 500 attended their conference as delegates, 1 in 4. That is not bad a turn-out.I await the reports of their conference.500 attendees at the Conference this past weekend? Looking at the YouTube clips of the Conference, it doesn't even look half that number. Maybe I just picked the wrong clip.
Nice work.It's not much but I've just reposted this on the Socialist Standard Past and Present blog.
Was there ever a transcript made available of this talk? I recently read a Tom Mann biography so I've currently got a passing interest in the SDF.
gnome wrote:Julian Wilson, a member of the Weadlen Progressive Movement and potential member of the SPGB's Kent & Sussex Branch, will be giving a talk on the Social Democratic Federation at the Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells Fabian Society on Friday, 10th October, at the Len Fagg Hall, 71A St.John's Road, Tunbridge Wells, TN4 9TT, starting at 8.00pm.Looks interesting. Do you know if the talk will be available in any format in the future?
yeah, it was a bit daft of me to label the pic as Gordon Davies when I saved it, but there is a method to my madness when a stray Fulham fan seeking solace in their glorious past finds the Party website via a Gordon Davies google search. Of course, I'm sure it was a deliberate decision on the part of the then Editorial Committee to use a Fulham player on the cover of the Standard. Entryists pushing their Fulham agenda on the rest of the working class. It could have been worse. They could have used a pic of Chelsea's Tommy Langley.
A word of warning.The confirmation email that I received asking me if I wanted to subscribe to the newsletter arrived in my spam folder. It might just have been me, but other people signing up for the newsletter should double check in their spam folders if they don't see a confirmation email in their inbox.
pfbcarlisle wrote:The Party's website now has a facility for users to subscribe to a newsletter which will list updates to the site, including new archive material, audio uploads, (new or old), etc. (Thanks to cde. Poynton of the Internet Committee)Go to the bottom right of any page on this website and there is a box to sign-up to the newsletter. Just enter your email address and you'll receive a confirmation email which can be clicked to activate subscription. (The option to 'unsubscribe' is also present and easy to use).As this is new, the first newsletter won't be issued until early October to allow people to sign up.Excellent. Thanks for this.
Ozymandias wrote:Forgot to ask if anyone can tell me who the "Internationalist Communist Tendency" are. I've never heard of them but they look like Trots.Left Communists. Probably better known in the UK as the Communist Workers Organisation.
For the completists. From the February 1979 issue of the Socialist Standard, 'Devolution or revolution?':Link: Devolution or revolution?
