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ParticipantIf Ed has made it clear he does not want to say anything else, then leave it up to other forum readers to judge whether he is justified or not.
September 25, 2013 at 12:55 pm in reply to: Lonely at the top: the decline of political parties #88834jondwhite
ParticipantQuote:Ed Miliband is full of talk about Labour attracting new members in their thousands. The big idea, brought to the UK from a one-time mentor of Barack Obama, is 'community activism'. But how does it play on the streets of the south coast? Can you put jump leads on a 100-year-old political party? John Harris goes on an absurdist recruitment drive to find outjondwhite
ParticipantYou're right they are reminiscent of the AWL. I'm suprised you've never come across it as it has been covered in Weekly Worker (briefly) but as the "Anti-Germans". Basically they're Zionist sympathising. Platypus has published some of their stuff. I think they come from Moshe Postone.http://www.cpgb.org.uk/home/weekly-worker/932/not-part-of-the-lefthttp://cpgb.org.uk/home/weekly-worker/941/anti-germans-excusing-capitalism-of-role-in-rise-of-hitlerand on Platypushttp://www.cpgb.org.uk/home/weekly-worker/963/dissecting-the-platypusalso on Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Germans_%28political_current%29
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ParticipantIs the use of the military idea as a political pawn in domestic politics something that has increased in the 21st Century? I have noticed politicians doing this to suit their own ends.
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ParticipantThis topic reminded me of the book I saw in Waterstones the other dayhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/Irrationality-enemy-within-Ben-Goldacre/dp/1780660251/
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ParticipantWell-written (and Coren is a great writer) anti-consumerism is one thing, socialism is another. Will fashion exist under socialism?
September 22, 2013 at 3:39 pm in reply to: Socialist Platform meeting – Saturday September 14, 1pm. The Meeting Place, 2 Langley Lane, London SW8. #96402jondwhite
ParticipantThanks, I'm sure you will be contacted by them.
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ParticipantManifold? I thought reasons for rejection of membership are supposed to be very limited.
September 20, 2013 at 5:20 pm in reply to: An SPGB (national one-way announcements) mailing list #96561jondwhite
ParticipantI think it'd be less hassle to just close the events and announcements subforum than to use the prefix.
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ParticipantYes, I agree a summer school in London would not feel like a retreat in the same way as Fircroft/Harborne.
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ParticipantWill the North London event be recorded?
September 20, 2013 at 10:43 am in reply to: Socialist Platform meeting – Saturday September 14, 1pm. The Meeting Place, 2 Langley Lane, London SW8. #96396jondwhite
ParticipantWe wouldn't try to win people over under the pretence that we agree with them when we don't. I think this is the problem with the CPGB. And it would be a problem if any prospective infiltrators went after the assets of the SPGB as happened with the old CPGB. Pretty sure 'socialists' of all sorts of stripes have said their 'ultimate' aim is as described above.
September 20, 2013 at 8:32 am in reply to: Socialist Platform meeting – Saturday September 14, 1pm. The Meeting Place, 2 Langley Lane, London SW8. #96393jondwhite
ParticipantWouldn't the classic application of the Trot tactic of entryism be more clandestine? I suspect other groups are doing this with more subterfuge.
September 19, 2013 at 9:57 pm in reply to: Socialist Platform meeting – Saturday September 14, 1pm. The Meeting Place, 2 Langley Lane, London SW8. #96391jondwhite
ParticipantHere is our name check in those excluded from the 'Socialist Platform' meeting and a report of the vote against observers which at least CPGB members seem to have voted againsthttp://cpgb.org.uk/home/weekly-worker/978/socialist-platform-politics-of-prejudice
September 19, 2013 at 7:13 pm in reply to: An SPGB (national one-way announcements) mailing list #96559jondwhite
ParticipantThe party events section on the SPGB website is well worth mentioning. Compared to a mailing list it is not designed to alert users of events unless they go to look at it. Meetup may well do this but the party should be running its own, there are no technical barriers to this. Spintcom and Spopen and all the other party and branch yahoo lists are discussion lists that members and sympathisers only interested in announcements would not use.As for global observances of a political nature, there might be a point. Maybe it depends how strict you want to be, but would this to extend to International Workers' Day for example? Maybe not so much advertising them, but rather as highlighting them as opportunities for SPGB publicity/activity. A mailing list could be an organisational tool not just limited to an advertising channel. Just because subscribers might only want informing of reminders and not discussion doesn't mean they're passive rather than active.
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