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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.
“A full belly is needed before socialist ideas fill the mind.”
A wise person once said: “The people are only 3 meals away from revolution”. Two good examples of this are: the French Revolution (‘let them eat cake’), and the Russian Revolution (‘peace, land, and bread’).
Anyway, the socialist revolution is inevitable. This is due to the materialist conception of history (https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/pamphlet/historical-materialism/), and because capitalism is unsustainable (https://learnsocialism.dropmark.com/554165/17146366).
This campaign won’t work, because the energy companies can hold out a lot longer after losing a lot of customers, than households can without gas and electricity.
I suggest starting a campaign to end the global profit based economy, and replace it with a resource based one (which is what the World Socialist Movement advocates).
“Worse, any journalist, scholar or peace activist who dares criticise Israeli policy is routinely denounced as an anti-Semite, Holocaust denier and neo-Nazi.”
And any Jewish people who do that are ridiculously denounced as self-hating Jews.
“Funnily enough in the North East we used to have a high skill and high wage workforce, they were called miners and shipbuilders, I wonder what happened to them?”
Miners and shipbuilders were paid high wages?!
You’re right, ALB.
According to the Electoral Calculus, if a general election were held this month the results would be:
Labour – 50% of the seats;
Conservatives – 35%;
SNP – 8%;
Liberal Democrats – 3%.So, it looks as if Labour will either win a small majority, or do a deal with the LibDems (assuming Scotland isn’t in the process of leaving the UK by 2024).
“Why don’t they propose socialism as the common ownership and democratic control of productive resources with production directly for use and distribution according to needs. That would much simpler and more practical.”
Indeed it would, but that goes against their ideology that state-ownership is the same as common-ownership, and Parliament can reform capitalism to make it work in everyone’s best interests.
An educational video on why Taiwan thinks it’s China: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQTtwh2GRME
