Lizzie45
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As OFGEM hiked the energy price cap by a massive 80% on Friday, Don’t Pay groups across the country came together with a clear message: no one cold or hungry this winter.
From London to Lancaster, Somerset to Sheffield, we held protests, street stalls and banner drops to spread the word about the strike and build the pledge. With more than 129,000 of us now signed up to the strike pledge, our movement is growing quickly!
https://dontpay.uk/articles/day-of-action-1-no-one-cold-or-hungry-this-winter/
“Anyway, the socialist revolution is inevitable. This is due to the materialist conception of history”
Yeah, sure, except that previous ‘revolutions’ didn’t require a politically conscious majority to implement them, which is where the MCH falls down.
But take care with predictions; they can often leave you with egg on your face.
(https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/forum/topic/russian-tensions-2/page/3/#post-225741)
“And 118 years of piecemeal reforms have achieved what? Only another cry for another piecemeal reform!”
They’ve achieved considerably more than the now rapidly dwindling number of impossibilists have over the same period.
Lenin was being optimistic when he declared “If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.”
(As quoted in: ‘Ten Days That Shook the World’ (1926))
“So, it’s Fair Price versus No Price. Which is the pipe dream? You decide.”
After, what is it now, 118 years?, those who have heard the SPGB’s ‘case’ have overwhelmingly made their decision. But, no matter ALB, you continue to dream on.
Can anyone tell me why there are currently two identical threads on this topic?
We’ll soon see how long the energy companies hold out when countless people stop paying their bills. But what people can’t and won’t do is wait for the resource based/socialist pipe dream.
Today is the day!
❗⚡ This Friday 26th, OFGEM will announce the obscene new price cap increase ⚡❗
✊🏼✊🏾 We are coming together for a protest outside OFGEM headquarters to let them know how we feel & the people power they are up against.
🗣️ Gather at 6pm outside OFGEM HQ in London – 10 South Colonnade Canary Wharf London E14 4PU
🗣️ Bring placards, testimonies and letters to OFGEM to show them how they will be affecting us with the price hike.
❗⚡ This Friday 26th August, OFGEM will announce the obscene new price cap increase ⚡❗
✊🏼✊🏾 We are coming together for a protest outside OFGEM headquarters to let them know how we feel & the people power they are up against. ✊🏼✊🏾
🗣️ Gather at 6pm outside OFGEM HQ in London – 10 South Colonnade Canary Wharf London E14 4PU
🗣️ Bring placards, testimonies and letters to OFGEM to show them how they will be affecting us with the price hike.
1.7 MILLION households say they’re planning to cancel payments to energy suppliers this autumn.
This new opinion poll in the i newspaper says it all: if the government doesn’t act, millions of people will. We refuse to stand by as millions go cold and hungry, all so the energy companies can keep making huge profits.
But the only way we’ll win and lower energy prices is if we all pledge to join the strike together!
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/winter-debt-crisis-fuel-energy-price-cap-1807444
The car becomes the weapon.
A very close friend of mine, who also used to be a member of the SPGB, never had any illusions about Coleman, particularly after he left to pursue his career in academia.
“I am not privy to the plans of the Lithuanian navy but they would have to sail out of the Baltic Sea into the North Sea and then to the mouth of the Rhine in the Netherlands and then to Danube, I think.”
A highly circuitous route, which would include negotiating the RMD canal which alone is over 170km in length and possesses 16 locks.
And that’s even before the Danube is reached at Kelheim in Germany!
