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287 July 1928A recent L.S. E. paper.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/uk-intervention-in-syria-votes-parliament/
UK intervention in Syria: why Theresa May won her vote in 2018, while David Cameron lost his in 2013.
Comparing parliamentary debates on intervention in Syria in 2013 and 2018, James Strong finds that support for the latter depended on Theresa May’s decision not to call a vote prior to deployment, as well as on the shifting attitude among MPs since 2013, in particular vote-switching among Conservatives.On 29 August 2013, the House of Commons dramatically vetoed military intervention against the Assad regime in Syria. The shell-shocked prime minister, David Cameron, confirmed he would accept the result; ‘the British Parliament, reflecting the views of the British people, does not want to see British military action. I get that, and the Government will act accordingly’.
Yet just under five years later, in April 2018, Prime Minister Theresa May ordered an essentially identical operation to the one Cameron proposed. Not only did she avoid calling a prior parliamentary vote, she subsequently won majority support for what she had done.
In recent research, I ask why May won while Cameron lost. I consider a number of possible explanations, including the fact his vote preceded military action while hers followed it, changes in the balance of power between the parties in parliament, changes in the makeup of the parties in parliament, and changes in attitudes among MPs.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/uk-intervention-in-syria-votes-parliament/
I just got an unexpected visit from a cheery nurse with a spare AstraZenaca injection for me, as I was next on her ‘at risk’ list.
No hesitation from me in saying, ‘yes please’.
I was waiting on a phone call and thought I would have to go down to my GPs.
Pure, dead, brilliant, are these NHS professionals.
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Meanwhile these people are operating.
More archive from Adam.
No.284 April 1928
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Defender of the Russian Government: A Criticism and our
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I.L.P. Journalism.
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Aims of the I.L.P. Exposed
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Worship: A Conversation with a Visitor from Mars.
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Failure of the Labour Colleges
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Communists Answered
285 May 1928
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Party Warmongers.
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on Socialism.
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Worship: A Conversation with a Visitor from Mars.
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The Ballot or the Barricade?
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Atrocities of Peace.
Interesting CounterPunch piece.
More archive updates from Adam.
281 January 1928
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Psychology of Capital
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Individualist’s Defence of Capital.
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Worship: A Conversation with a Visitor from Mars.
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to Correspondents
282 February 1928
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Socialism and “Supermen.”
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Activities.
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Enter the Parliamentary Fray.
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Worship: In Conversation with a Visitor from Mars.
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Founders of Modern Socialism.
283 March 1928
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Unemployment Abounds in the U.S.A.
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and Price. A Critics Rejoinder and our Reply.
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Class Struggles in France: Before and After the Commune. By
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A Defence of the I.L.P. and Our Reply
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Plight of the Cotton workers
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or Chinese Nationalism: A Criticism from Australia
Comrades some more archive updates from Adam.
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Editorial:
Shall We Mourn?
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“What
Could You Do With £600?”
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Prison
Reform and the Class Struggle.
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Producing
and Paying: A Grim Fairy Tale
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Marx
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Guild
“Socialism.” A Good Thing for Capitalist Ratepayers
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Editorial:
The Call of the Graveyard.
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Correspondence:
Steps to Socialism.
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Correspondence:
Rip Van Winkle.
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Way of Peace
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The
Optimists.
- “Liepocracy.”
- Jottings
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The
Broom
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Correspondence:
Currency Questions
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The
Man in the Back Street
Your broad general points have not been unwelcome.Your flooding of replies and smears and condescending extrapolations to socialists less so.
You say,
We are products of our history. Robbed of history we are impoverished. One could learn the techniques of medieval art to memorialise the rebels and revolutionaries of the time in new creations employing the old techniques.
But the rebels and resisters of the medieval era, the flotsam and jetsam of their historic times, their followers still to be wiped out or merely dispersed back into their former servitude,remaining mere subjects in thrall or opposition, to the new ruling elites, enough to sacrifice their leaders.
So we learned the very broad the lesson of the class struggle.
You blithely ignored Wez’s end point example about ,
whilst studying at art school we went on a visit to a museum and I came across a tiny paleolithic carving of a bison in stone. It took my breath away. Both of these reactions are emotional and aesthetic and both inspired me to learn more about medieval cathedrals and stone age art – for profoundly antithetical reasons.
The hand which carved the bison was suffice, no need to smuggle stone masons signatures into it as in some of the medieval examples.
So the lesson of all wealth being the product of human labour applied to nature given raw materials.(LTV)
Socialist have indeed learned lessons from the uses and misuses of art, in the service of the ruling classes of their days, as well as its present use as speculative distraction.
You are tilting at windmills again.
So how do all of you see the status of preservation/conservation of pre-socialist art in socialism? That’s all i’m asking. People today work on medieval cathedrals, perform period music they have researched, restore stained glass, repair damage etc., learn ancient languages and create their own art emulating long-gone styles. Doing so is exciting for them but does not turn them into political reactionaries or religious freaks. Or would you prefer the past obliterated?
What the revolutionaries of the day will do, will be up to them at the time.It would be mere speculation of me, to convey or attempt to convey how I see,
the status of preservation/conservation of pre-socialist art in socialism?
That’s all i’m asking.
You went a helluva long way for a short cut then.
No it is not, merely asking the question. A number of comrades admitted to sharing some of your aesthetic sensibilities, but you just plowed on regardless and flooded the thread and resorted to smearing us, with as some how in association with this behaviour,
In Greece I saw age-old Byzantine frescos ruined with Communist Party graffiti.
The history of the past is already written in the present. Quite few things have been as well as frescos are trashed by it.
Since Marx wrote,
“capital comes dripping from head to toe, from every pore, with blood and dirt” The Genesis of Industrial Capitalism.”
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch31.htmit has become a shape shifting Frankenstein monster and our job is to freeze frame it in broad laypersons terms, which can be understood sufficiently to aid the immense majority to destroy it.
The more recent events, the present flood of human suffering seeking asylum, the causes of two world wars and innumerable smaller ones, past and still ongoing, and the war science of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, obscured by sinecured academia from above and distorted by ideological understandings from below, are surely more cause for immediate concern.
I think William Morris would be writing a lot more political stuff these days, as he was then.
You are not being subjected to any abuse or vitriol by James or any party member.
One abusive post by a non-member and replies to it were removed by myself.
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