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She often gets her story on the nail, for instance the first time I heard this was by Vic Vanni from a socialist platform in Glasgow in the 1970’s,
common sense is often non-sense.
Unlike Robbo and Bijou Drains, I really bought into it all, especially the Latin Mass and the miracles and Catholic martyrs stories, until I was around 18 years of age.
I really cringe at the thought of what a self righteous little prick I was until then.
Well spotted. I thought I’d use an actual photo of him in the WSM posting.
…we must equally demand that Burma embraces true democracy for all of its citizens, regardless of race, ethnicity or religion. A good start would be to disassociate Aung San Suu Kyi from any inclusive democratic movement in this country. The Lady of Burma had her opportunity but, sadly, failed.”
Now that is what I call infantile Leftist posturing. Socialists knew fine well she would not be able to deliver any more than a modicum of reforms, if even that.
The executioners axe was always behind her and still is so.
This another very recent addition by Adam Buick, of an Adolph Kohn article.
I think you’ll agree it’s a very good presentation of our case:
The battleground of the class struggle
Socialism can only be realised by the success of the working class in its struggle against the owning class. The Socialist movement is built upon the facts of this class struggle. It is useful and necessary therefore to learn what the class struggle really is and the field in which it is carried on.
Labour Party and Capitalist opponents either viciously deny the class struggle or allege that we Socialists make the struggle ourselves by appealing to class hatred and stirring up discontent which should be left to slumber.
Added to these types of opponents we have had those who claimed to be Socialists, but who argue that there is no real class struggle of the workers apart from the Socialists who wage it.
But the media attention is not on the real tragedy. Often ignored are the stories of the thousands of domestic workers from Asia and Africa who are prisoners of their employers and suffering daily abuses under the kafala migrant worker rules.
A capitalist paywall blocks this, but the NYTimes is reporting 18 killed in their latest bulletin.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/28/world/asia/myanmar-protests.htmlIt seems from the PR spin that “America First” has been replaced by “America is Back”…back to 2016 where Obama left off.
In more ways than one.
Democrat manoeuvres and treachery.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/us/politics/democrats-minimum-wage.html
This was added by Adam Buick from an original of ours in the MIA Socialist Party of Great Britain, in which had edited by him and had been placed in MIA in the Gilbert McClatchie Archive.
Commodity Struggle or Class Struggle?
There is an old view still floating about that only workers who are class-conscious and organised politically for the overthrow of capitalism take part in the class struggle, and that the average worker, who is not class-conscious, takes no part in the struggle, being simply a commodity seller. Read more
Protectionism? Precautionary principle in the face of environmental risks? Opportunity knocks?
Who knows the secret of this capitalist ‘black magic’ box?
Murray tries to find a motive, and frankly fails. I find the great conspiracy ide implausible, I think it looks more like institutional blundering, there being no way to deal with complaints against Salmond but feeling an impetus to *something* they scratched out a policy, and are now caught between procedural rules around protecting the complainants and also an inherent defensiveness.
I would agree with this and the emergence of some internal political opportunism from pro-Salmond/ pro-Sturgeon rivals presenting other reform parties with ammunition for their bare political larders giving the SNPs showings in the polls.
Tonight’s Party Political Broadcast from the Tories, just had SNP portrayed as a pro independence referendum ‘one trick pony’, but neglected to say what alternative they had, other than opposition to independence.
