james19
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Breaking:
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who has been identified as the man who put his knee on George Floyd’s neck, has been arrested in connection to Floyd’s death.
Thank you for the link. Yes, you are right.
My point is that what these people are advocating, the best healthcare is privately run insurance based profit driven healthcare.When you’re unwell and fall down in the street. The first thing medics will do is not to check your pulse, breathing, but check your wallet to see you have medical insurance!
War is now raging, with ‘allied forces’ (American war planes) fighting (is it separatist) rebels. Bombing schools and hospitals. Turning hospitals to piles of rubble, in the middle of a pandemic! This beggars belief. 😡
On the Party Twitter account, there have been a number of tweets decrying ‘social healthcare’.
I’ve replied: The NHS and the Welfare State, were set up after the horrors of WWII faced by British forces (and the general population). Soldier’s coming home after the end of war, would come back to a country fit for our war heroes.l have told the people saying this about social healthcare, that they are utterly ignorant, when talking about the NHS in Britain.
The sickening case was that of the male who because he’d turned 18, the parents health insurance no longer covered him. Because of his on going illness, he was left to pay for his insulin, which he couldn’t afford, and had to ration what he could afford (which is very common in the US) it led to his death. If this wasn’t enough, the loss of a son, blame was laid squarely on the parents? 😡
Iraq, alliance forces (US military) are bombing the country. The last thing you need during this pandemic are hospitals being turned to rubble. Capitalism is egregious.
SOYMB article link
The Labour Party and the Biafra War
http://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-labour-party-and-biafra-war.html?m=1
On the party Twitter feed, not a day goes by without us being taunted about Venezuela and the suffering of Venezuelans.
With millions of Americans now unemployed because of Coronavirus. Americans having to queue for food at food banks…..
All we need now is for them to eat their pets?
Not so sure if they will realise they got their comeuppance, karma is a….as they say.I got hit with the table tennis bat on the backside, by the head nun. Men pay good money for a woman to dress up as a nun to hit them😳
I was taken from my Roman Catholic junior school after a bit of a family feud….I was cross at the time, having made new friends in class…The new school was a lot closer anyway to our house, it was CofE. In class, I was angry, that I’d been moved to this new school. The teacher saw this, who then told me that the CofE doesn’t teach that the Earth is flat….
Karma? Case of speaking too soon.
http://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2020/04/empty-shelves-for-america.html?m=1
Thanks for the replies….interesting and helpful
Just been reading the likely hood of empty shelves in America on the SOYMB, blog.
I saw this on FB. One of my family members liked. All good I thought, he’s reposted/liked stuff which is a tad racist unfortunately.🙁
This meme sums it up really.
— The Socialist Party (@OfficialSPGB) March 4, 2020
I don’t agree one bit with as soon as we mention Socialism or Marx it turns young people off? The OP, is expressing a personal opinion. There’s no evidence to back it up.
Being a socialist, admittedly in the Labour Party is something most young people see as a good thing. Many young people are attracted to the SWP and other left wing groups claiming to be socialist.
Was it the spilt of a split of CPGB who’s magazine Living Marxism (which was stocked in WHSmith incidentally. Are WHSmith still going? I personally thought wasn’t a put off in anyway, but a positive thing. I had no real idea about Marx at the time, and was intrigued by it. I didn’t actually read it for some reason, unbeknown to me…….probably because I was an avid reader of the Socialist in Socialist Standard which wasn’t a turn off. I did however, have a little worry when the Socialist Standard was referred to as the SS…..it still does, but this has more to do with the SS and Nazism?
Quoting Marx, for example, “those who produce the wealth should own it, it’s fairer”, how is that something that is going to turn young people off or anybody else for that matter?
Another example; “Marx never signed the death warrant for anyone” which is a rebuttal to those who say Marxism killed 100m, usually posted on the Socialist Party Twitter feed.
The Party must take a great deal of credit for not only talking about Marx, after all we’re a Marxist party, but for being honest and open and not shying away from Marx at all, from fellow workers.
YFS James
