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The situation is broadly the same now, as it ws in the beginning apart from the advent of accines the same vulnerable groups are exposed.
Other scientists said it was increasingly clear that the virus would be here for the long term and that the government needed to change strategy. “Having 20 million people vaccinated is likely to help reduce numbers of cases but we must not forget that this is a highly transmissible virus and if we do not continue with social measures, it will soon whip round communities again and cause havoc,” said Liam Smeeth, professor of clinical epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Meanwhile the Hawks still circle.
The US is lifting long-standing restrictions on contacts between American and Taiwanese officials, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says.
The “self-imposed restrictions” were introduced decades ago to “appease” the mainland Chinese government, which lays claim to the island, the US state department said in a statement.
Or, as Stan Laurel said:
“Life isn’t short enough.”Or, as Stan Laurel said:At last you’re using my brain. 🙂
Surprised you overlooked one or two posts that might have said something about my faith… made me smile.
I tend to speed read and skim posts on here, I am usually busy elsewhere on the website. It is snippy posts, leading to tempestous outbursts and reactions, that I take issue with.
Snake oil is easily challenged.
Life is too damn short, to be wasted in negative energy.
Sure there have and the well from which some of them sprung is a deep one.
I think I have earnestly posted in a past thread that I belong to a community of faith. The metaphor of oil and water: socialism struggles to mix with faith, is one that I might not agree with. But that is okay.
I hadn’t noticed that and it doesn’t matter. I like reading your stuff. Some of Thomas’s also but,
A friendly discourse suits me and and I am sure, us.
But,there is a class struggle going on and no matter how fascinating all our different approaches to, ‘making it through the night’ are, socialists are in the business of making revolutionaries and the MCH is a more than adequate tool properly utilised.
We made clear analytical conclusions, while the Left were enchanted and dithering about and Red Deans and other really ‘nice kindly people‘, were seeing the ‘Future Working‘ out in Russia.
A lot of ‘alchemy’ going on then too. Then in China. We have been dealing with the effects of it ever since.
We have to be correct.
A lot of ‘alchemy’ going on then, also in the midst of the First Great Slaughter.
We never take away from the fact there were people from different perspectives, idealistic or morally, coming to similar conclusions about some, if not all of that. We have given credit to and for them. A testament to very common human impulses.
But our ‘whys?’ and ‘hows?, would be different. Most people are just muddling through trying to make some sense of it all.
They are prey to ‘herding’ and manipulative meddling, by erstwhile leaders in their searches, for some degree of ‘certainty‘.
We do not want this and want ‘thinkers’ for the cause. Great, if alongside us, but absolutely Hunky Dory if the idea of a post-class society where production for use and free access is percolating.
There is no certainty within this class society, save poverty, relative and or, absolute and war, by deed or by proxy.
I don’t think the term of ‘professional atheist’ is appropriate for socialists of our kind either.
I get on just as great with religious people as well as anyone else and they with me.
I am speaking of those who share a commensense of humanity not the proselytising nut jobs religious or atheist.
But some of the patronising religious ones need it right up them.
You do not need to remind my comrade for instance that,Movimiento, that the MCH can’t be a hammer to bash others with, but a teaching and learning tool.
He knows it as well as me.
Dear Comrades,friends and fellow workers,
But this is the same for any movement. In the very early days of the movement, and with oral traditions of communicating (a mental-memory archive) there will be less manuscripts. And in the initial persecutions, perhaps less so at first.
This is probably the only thing, nuts and bolts chap myself, I think is worth considering, in the light of, the actual and eventual ideological, forces at the work, in the choices (still does) of teaching history in schools, where working class history is obliterated, even though much archival material existed and still does remain so, and despite some diligent rescue by E.P. Thomson, Howard Zinn and others,.
After all, I as a child lived up the road from a graveyard in which were there were remains of the Calton Weavers bayonetted and felled by musket fire. I only had a rudimentary oral historical knowledge of this event, learnt at my granny’s knee literally, she had been a weaver too, as the tombstones were overgrown and memories too receded, wiped out in the community. (Fyi ?. A physician friend of Abe Lincoln is buried there too actually).
None of this knowledge was imparted at the local shool a few hundred yards from it, but much about virgin births,resurrection from the dead and glorious empire was along with appeals for pennies for the less fortunate than us, shivering, smog spluttering infants, black babies.
The same with the actual history of WW1s slaughter of her three brothers Frank, Edward, Thomas, the clever educationally promising sons of a Curragh immigrant, this obliterated in the commemoration of Empiral triumph. My lesson was never to don the Kings uniform.
(Mere anecdote)I got a big historical ID buzz when I briefly worked in those modernisd but still noisy and dusty mills, down in Bridgeton as a labourer, when I was in between jobs, blacklisted seemingly, for union activity by the Engineering Employers Federation. I mere child, wasn’t even a militant one either, merely for what I thought was possible, ‘fair do’s’ and I didn’t belong to any political party at the time.
It was the actual lived experiences of the unconscious and beginning of conscious, class struggle, as well as the oral history and the accidental encounter with the knowledgeable outdoor speakers of the Glasgow socialists and visiting Edinburgh members,
SPGB members, who attended and spoke at the outdoor flea market of ‘Glasgow Barras’ and the bustling inner city ‘Royal Exchange Square,around 49 years ago, whose accounts chimed with much of what I had learned in inarticulate, formed and unformed understanding, which set me upon the path of discovering, which history I needed to know about the real,lived, history of the working class and the urgent necessity of focussing our endeavours and scrutiny upon bringing this, to the attention of workers worldwide, so that they may by their own conscious efforts end history as a series of class struggles, to self emancipate in the last great emancipatory wave thus ending class rule, war, poverty.Any newcomers to this Forum’s thread must be puzzled indeed at the longevity of what was, by Alan sincerely, a mere festive trivial distraction, fetid ass droppings of Pop between advertising TV, turned into a perusal of any significance.
Our archives continue to be updated here for world wide perusal.
Comradely regards,
Matt
Hope I said that without a pop and ‘upperosity’ but more a moder-osity.
..and peace come dropping low (One hopes) 🙂
