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The only way of stopping the banks from crashing the Uk’s economy without bailing them out was to nationalise them. You can bet your life that libertarian would be against that!
“(Which, by the way, hadn’t been feudal for two thousand years)”
Not really? I thought most of the population of China were peasants in 1949. Unless peasants aren’t unique to feudalism?
I read once on the SPGB’s website (though I don’t remember where) that Russia & China needed state-capitalist revolutions. This is because their respective capitalist classes were too weak to take over the State from the feudalists, therefore, they needed a state-bourgeoise to catch up with the West’s advanced level of industrial capitalism.
If there were a general election this month:
Labour would win 77% of the seats!
The Conservatives – 9%!
The SNP – 8%
The Liberal Democrats – 3%
SOURCE: https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/homepage.html
I once wrote on here that I didn’t think a party would ever win a comfortable or super majority ever again. I got that wrong! (although that was before the energy crisis).
They can end the energy crisis by ending sanctions against Russia & by nationalising the energy companies. The sad thing is, if any of the Conservative leadership candidates offered that solution, they would be ripped to shreds by the MSM.
I couldn’t access RT.com/news, but could after connecting to a VPN.
Firstly, the police are now allowed to stop protests that are deemed ‘too noisy’ or cause a nuisance; then we were bombarded with royalist propaganda; and now we’re not allowed to access the propaganda websites of countries we’re not officially at war with! The UK is slowly and steadily turning into North Korea!
“What would be useful is to see ideas on this thread being translated into definite resolutions for our ADM and Annual Conference so that activity is actually initiated.”
“And the last YouTube video posted was five years ago…”
Good points.
DJP, we already have Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube accounts.
I couldn’t agree with Bijou Drains’ proposal more. Some of the comments (promoting the party’s message) I’ve left under Jonathan Cook’s FB posts have received a few likes from the public. It’s also helpful to put links in the comments to our pamphlets or SS articles (that relate to the given subject, for example: Questions of the Day; the Socialist Party and War; Ecology and Socialism).
Also, I’ve commented on the blog of Another Angry Voice (a VERY popular, Keynesian blogger, who advocates a mix between state run and privately run capitalism). Here’s a good argument I had with him (under the pseudonym of Mr. Magoo) below his article about South Korea: https://anotherangryvoice.blogspot.com/2021/10/squid-game-and-steel-industry.html
“No regularly updated presence on things like YouTube and Instagram for example. Not that there are any silver bullets, but you could do something about that. Or you could just sit about here moaning and moping. It’s up to you.”
In my own defence, I comment regularly on the FB pages of Jonathan Cook (a popular, soft-left, pro-Palestine journalist) and Media-Lens (a couple of popular, soft-left, media analysts). I also comment sometimes on Greta’s FB page, although, my comments are like needles in haystacks (even when I reply to a comment near the top of the comments-section).
I highly recommend comrades comment on those FB pages, too, so they won’t be able to ignore us.
What are you talking about, DJP? Yes, Corbyn’s Labour Party got 40% of the vote in 2017, however, they only got 32% of the vote in 2019. Their share of the vote dropped like a stone after they promised a second referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU.
“Our task as socialists is to do all we can to help people come to this conclusion.”
Indeed. However, I’ve always found trying to convert others to real socialism is the perfect example of the saying: “you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink”.
All well, to quote the song ‘Lovers in a Dangerous Time’ by Bruce Cockburn (no joke): “[We’ve] got to kick at the darkness ’till it bleeds daylight”.
P.S. Check out the fantastic Barenaked Ladies cover-version of that song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Age3O5cXAK4
“We have had our last chance. If we do not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.” – General Douglas MacArthur (of all people), in a radio broadcast on 2nd September, 1945. This was the day Japan surrendered to the Allies, officially ending World War II.
P.S. Forum users, please remain courteous to one another.
There’s been a lot of talk in this topic about a fair price for energy; but what does ‘fair price’ mean? It means the price people pay while still having enough money to spend on other commodities, without businesses having to raise their workers’ wages (eating into profits).
Imagine if the NHS were totally privatised and people demanded a ‘fair price’ for health-insurance.
