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DSA claim 25,000 membershttps://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/6qsbk5/dsa_proud_to_announce_we_reached_our_goal_of/May 2016 – 6,500 membersNov 2016 – 14,000 membersFeb 2017 – 16,000 membersMar 2017 – 19,000 membersAug 2017 – 25,000 membersWonder if anyone has audited these claims …
Andrew Neil commented'I've seen this film many times before. And it always ends the same way.'https://twitter.com/afneil/status/890951715465416704
The pharmaceutical industry (and the product vaccines) are no more (or less) profit driven than the food industry or water industry or energy industry. A minority of food products get recalled so a minority of pharmaceutical products do too. Doesn't mean there is something nefarious about the food industry. Poor but healthy workers are better than poor sick consumers, from a capitalist point of view.
So how much is the banking sector worth? Whatever it collectively decides to value itself at? And why did they all suffer in the recession?
Thanks. Just read the letters in today's issue. Robbo, have you joined or is that a bit of Leninist license? Also good to see someone complain about letters from Freeman and Downing.
'Stalinists' threatening 'Trotskyists' in Momentumhttp://www.workersliberty.org/node/31261Ever wonder why current Tories don't divide themselves into Churchill-ists versus Chamberlain-ists?On the other hand (my emphasis)
Quote:In the middle of the general election campaign, after months of inactivity, a slim majority of the defunct Momentum Youth and Student committee voted in a snap email ballot to expel committee members purged from Labour by the party’s Compliance Unit and to ban members of “democratic centralist”, i.e. Trotskyist, groups from future MYS events.At the risk of sounding like Bob Andrews, and members are free to do what they want, but I don't think the Masters letter encourages me to write to WW and give such critics the opportunity for abuse. Anyone who does know what political perspective Masters is coming from, I would like to know.
One of the letters reads
Quote:QuaintDoes anybody know what the SPGB is for, other than writing letters to the Weekly Worker? Their sect has nothing to say and has been saying it very quietly for over 100 years. One really has to wonder how they rationalise their continued existence, whereby they repeat the same methods over and over and still get the same results – mass indifference to their existence!When will we all see the light and sit the entrance exams to become a member of their elitist little safe space? As Lenin didn’t say, ‘If they had manure for brains, it would be a major software upgrade.’ That comrade Dave Vincent isn’t an expert on their particular shibboleths and positions is hardly worthy of their great sport in last week’s paper of proclaiming how amused they were.Surely, the amusing thing is that, after all these years of plugging away at their quaint little version of socialism, they have never registered as an organisation of any influence, and that in terms of impact on British politics they flounder behind the Official Monster Raving Loony Party, let alone the achievements of the political traditions that quote dead Russians now and then.John MastersBedfordshireMatt wrote:I was sent these on my phone from a friend in Hamburg asking."The Black Block anarchist / Left in Hamburg G20, burning destroying vandalism of WorkingClass people's few possessions , what do they hope to achieve with this Shite ❓"https://prolerat.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/black-bloc.htmlI think they hope to achieve more than simply marching A to B or the Grand Old Duke of York strategy as it is derisively known.
