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Posted elsewhere on this forum too, but here are some reports from the Anarchist Bookfairhttp://libcom.org/forums/announcements/london-anarchist-bookfair-19th-oct-07102013andhttp://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/anarchist-bookfair-2013-october-19th.315271/andhttp://samambreen.wordpress.com/2013/10/20/there-is-no-anarchism-without-feminism/andhttp://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2013/10/513250.html?c=on#c297248
Neither were SPGB companion parties, but the 'Socialist Party of America' (est. 1901) was the predecessor to the 'Socialist Party USA' (est. 1973). 'Socialist Party of America' (est. 1901) could claim over 100,000 dues paying members in early 1919. The 'multi-tendency' approach gradually emerging over the years seems to have reduced this membership. World Socialist Party of the United States (WSPUS) is a companion party to the SPGB and they left the Detroit section of the 'Socialist Party of America' in 1916 over political differences.
What little of politics mentioned by Partido X might sound fresh, buttrial for bankersanti-fraudparticipatory democracy and referendumsincreased minimum wage and introduction of a maximum wagerefuses the labels left-wing or right-wingparty of, and for, the citizens of the countryare all political positions that can be claimed by many political currents of the so-called 'radical centre'. Many of them are commonly used by fascist populist movements especially the opposition to 'finance capital'. Think the 'New Party' etc. and you will see the similarities so far.The term 'progressive' seems more exclusive at first, but thinking about it, no politics describes itself as regressive except perhaps primivitists.
There is an article on the "broad church" approach in the latest Standard which might be applicable to the so-called "multi-tendency" approachhttp://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2010s/2013/no-1310-october-2013/left-unity-broad-church
SPUSA are not to be confused with the World Socialist Movement companion parties including WSPUS and SPGB.SPUSA describe themselves as multi-tendency and in the tradition known as 'democratic socialist' I think.
When SPGB members say campaigning for socialism, the SPGB don't mean campaigning in the sense of the word as lobbying the ruling class for a settlement.
When they get round to installing a listserv on worldsocialism.org/spgb/When they get round to completing the upload of the full archive (which was digitised over 3 and a half years ago now) or at least sharing the resulting PDFs of the Socialist Standard on worldsocialism.org/spgb/http://ssdigit.nothingisreal.com/2010/03/page-inventory.htmlWhen they get round to installing a IRC on worldsocialism.org/spgb/When they get round to installing a wiki on worldsocialism.org/spgb/When they get round to installing a videostream on worldsocialism.org/spgb/When they get round to setting up a mobile version of the website
What are the interesting meetings to go to this Saturday?http://anarchistbookfair.org.uk/whatson.htmlI'm thinking11Spreading Organised AnarchismWe are the 99%12German AutonomistsChomsky's politicsPrivate Property (Wine & Cheese)1Don't Read Marx with Harvey (Wine & Cheese)2Anarchism and Marxism (CWO)Anarchist Print Media3Paid OrganisersAnarchist Research3:30Riot from Wrong (Film)4Class and Class ConsciousnessPrimitive Communism
You could add party events (which were done on spannounce successfully for many years until it was shut down for no good reason, now can be subscribed to on meetup) on there and automate the whole thing into reminders so it wouldn't even be necessary to manually write it.Every organisation worth its salt has a newsletter. Companion parties have newsletters (http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/forum/world-socialist-movement/spc-newsletter-1st-october-2013), SPGB branches have newsletters (Manchester and Head Office). Parties claiming to be 'socialist' have newsletters. One of the first decisions for the so-called 'International Socialist Network' was to have a newsletter. Even the so-called 'International Marxist Tendency' have a subscribers list.It got sidetracked, but it was discussed recently here,http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/forum/world-socialist-movement/spgb-national-one-way-announcements-mailing-list
Under 19, do you mean, 'Responses to responses to articles in the letters page appear under the name of the Editorial Committee'?
Apart from the facetious reply above, I would offer the following advice with the disclaimer that I am not on the Editorial committee;1. The Editorial Committee are responsible for production of the content of the Socialist Standard.2. The Editorial Committee consists of three party members appointed by the EC annually.3. The Editorial Commitee can be written to at the postal address of head office at 52 Clapham High Street, London, SW4 7UN or preferably e-mailed on spgb.sspc.ed@worldsocialism.org4. Socialist Standard comes out monthly on the 1st of every month.5. Before you start an article, you may ask the Editorial Committee (ask well in advance of the submission deadline) if it would be suitable for the Standard. Usually a title will suffice to tell if it is suitable. An approval at this stage still doesn't guarantee it is will be published in the Standard.6. The deadline for submissions for an issue is about the 15th of the previous month. It takes time to have it printed and distributed to subscribers.7. The Editorial Committee can accept your contribution, edit it (the purpose of editors is to edit) or reject it. You may be consulted and asked to agree to edits specified to you. You can suggest a title.8. Except for the letters page, all content is written by party members.9. If your contribution is rejected, then the blog committee may be more open to publishing it (spgb.blog@worldsocialism.org) for technical reasons of space.10. If your contribution is accepted for publication in the Standard, it may be worth specifying if you want your contribution attributed with your full name, initial, both initials, unattributed etc. Your article will appear on the website and in the PDF.11. In general contributions should be of contemporary relevance, as the Standard ought to be of contemporary relevance to be of general interest.12. A degree of greater flexibility on contemporanity may be acceptable for reviews of books, films of the last couple of years etc.13. A quick search of the website will tell you if a subject has had an article been written about it before. This doesn't mean it can't be written about again, but think about what new you can say about it.14. The written content of the Socialist Standard is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/uk/). If your work is published then this will be the license under which it is published.15. The current Editorial Committee seems to prefer receiving submissions as RTF. Microsoft Word Documents (.doc) are still the most common document format used in the world.And a few obvious ones.16. Any contributions ought to be factually accurate. Don't rely on the Editorial Committee alone to check for you.17. Any contributions ought not to run contrary to established party case.18. The Socialist Standard, World Socialist Review (WSPUS), Imagine (Socialist Party of Canada) and any party publications, are not the only publications party members can write for. Party members do not need the permission of the Socialist Standard Editorial Committee to write for other publications. Personally I also encourage writers who are party members to get a feel for other publications too as I feel this can only result in more experience and better writing.
