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I would be genuinely surprised if Corbyn was to make a final break from the Labour Party but there’s no denying it would be an interesting development if it was to happen as outlined by Galloway in this clip:

George Galloway calls on Jeremy Corbyn: "Announce an alliance of the remaining socialists in the country, you lead it, I'll support it, and let's go. Time is running out." pic.twitter.com/itnNct7vtK

— COMBATE |🇵🇷 (@upholdreality) March 4, 2024

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A Mod designed their Party logo by the looks of it.

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I’ve now added a dedicated Cooking the Books page onto the blog.

https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/p/cooking-books.html

It’s an excellent resource for socialists. Please share where you can.

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Local news.

Last night Lambeth Labour Group suspended a Jewish Cllr indefinitely and a black and 2 Muslim cllrs for 3 months for calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
It seems they are happier ignoring Genocide than with dissent

— JewishVoiceForLabour (@JVoiceLabour) February 27, 2024

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Following on from the dedicated page for the Pathfinders column on the blog, I’ve also added one for the long-running Material World column:

https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/p/material-world-column.html

Bookmark the page. It’s a good to have the articles side by side, and it’s a good resource for socialists.

Like the Pathfinders page, I think it should have an introductory paragraph. If anyone thinks they can provide one, please contact me offlist.

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Just posted a dedicated page for the Pathfinders column on the blog. Paddy was good enough to provide the following intro for it:

Pathfinders is a column that broadly looks at aspects of science and technology in capitalism, with an eye on how they might look or be applied in a future world where money and profit are not the driving factors. Areas covered have included industry, society, health, gender, energy, electric cars, computing, climate change, space, anthropology, genetics, language, intellectual property and the scientific method.
PJS

https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/p/pathfinders-column.html

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Ralph Critchfield (‘Ivan’)

I’ve put together a page on the Socialist Standard Past and Present blog which lists all the standalone articles, reviews, short stories and regular columns that Ralph Critchfield (‘Ivan’ in the Socialist Standard) penned down the years.

It’s a partial list ‘cos not all of Ralph’s articles are online (yet) but, as it currently stands, it amounts to over 500 pieces from the 1940s up until his last article in the Standard in 2018:

https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2023/11/ralph-critichfield-ivan.html

If you click on the month and year on the left hand of the page it will take you to individual articles.

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Funny clip from ‘Together’, Lukas Moodysson’s 2000 film about the 1970s Swedish left. Last year he released a sequel entitled ‘Together 99’ set in . . . checks notes . . . 1999. I’ve yet to see it.

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Abolishing money in the Merry Frinks (1930s comedy):

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DJP wrote:

“I think you’ve just outed yourself as someone who looks up ‘SPGB’ on YouTube.”

So you don’t think I spend my time looking up K-pop? Surely that’s presuming

So the kids tell me that K-Pop is the most popular music genre in the world today and, yet, here’s a K-Pop *cough* star who decides to call himself ‘SPGB’ and ends up with only 53 subscribers for his YouTube channel, and a video with only 1.9 thousand views despite the fact that it’s been up for 4 years . . . 4 BASTARD YEARS.

The jokes write themselves.

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It was Roddy Frame’s 60th birthday yesterday. A bona fide classic from back in the day:

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I think you’ve just outed yourself as someone who looks up ‘SPGB’ on YouTube. 😉

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One for the Marxologists on the forum. Just scanned in. A political quiz from the January 1983 Socialist Standard.

Test your theoretical wits against those who have the Marxist Internet Archive homepage as their screensaver:

https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2019/11/qu.html

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A hundred years ago today – I’m posting Stateside, so it’s still January 22nd at my end – the first (minority) Labour Government, led by Ramsay MacDonald, took office.

At the following link is a series of links to Socialist Standard articles from that period covering the 1923 General Election and the duration of that short lived Labour Government:

https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2024/01/a-false-dawn.html

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Interesting to see that one of the articles in the supplement is by Lindsay German. That wouldn’t have happened back in the day.

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