steve colborn
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A response to an email from 38 degrees, who are urging people to carry on the fight! Its not about merely challenging Capitalism but about ridding ourselves of this unequal, anarchic system of running Society. A system that is and can only be, run in the interests of, not the mythical 1% but a tiny fraction of this 1%, to the detriment of we, the Vast, Vast majority.I and The Socialist Party, will continue to confront this iniquitous society and offer an alternative, in the form of a Society based on "Production for Use, not Profit". A world that will belong to "us all".We urge you all to find out about this alternative. Stop begging for crumbs and demand a share of the whole Bakery.Steve Colborn.
An email I recieved this morning, from one of the participants of the Easington hustings; Hi Steve,I'm a member of the Green Left, (they call us water melons, green onthe outside and red on the inside), we're often called eco-ocialists. Ishare your opinions on capitalism and agree that materialism isultimately detrimental to our planet. I oppose capitalism in every wayshape and form and firmly believe that redistribution of wealth is theonly way to create a happier society.The first party I ever voted for was the Socialist Party and I stillagree with a lot of what they (and you) have to say, the only thing thatis missing for me is the environmental aspect.I thought you spoke very well in the hustings and as I said, I agreedwith a lot of your views. I wish you the best of luck comrade. I'm surethat no matter what happens we'll both continue to fight the rightwingers.All the best,Martie.
Oh, by the way. I too have MS. Would I feel more secure, have my illness any more cared for under Labour? Not a snowball in Hells chance.A plague on all their (Pro Capitalist Party's) houses.
As for blood, I think you'll find that Marxists and revolutionaries have more of it on their hands than the reformists do. Well Stuart, it would appear that your grasp of history leaves something to be desired! if you actually believe your statement, "As for blood, I think you'll find that Marxists and revolutionaries have more of it on their hands than the reformists do" holds any factual validity whatsoever.If you had said Lenin, Trotsky, Pol Pot, Mao, et al, then that would have been a, possibly valid statement. Then again, the reformists in the US have been rampaging around the planet since 1945 and have killed quite a few bushel basket fulls, of folk. So Stuart, please get your facts right
In the 70's, under Sunny Jim Callaghan, Labour set up the notorious Police Special Patrol Group. They used troops to break both the Refuse Workers, and Firemens strikes. Labour were the first political Party to impose legally enforceable Wage Restraint legislation upon Workers.Barbara Castle, that doyen of non Socialist misunderstanding, wrote a paper, entitled "In Place of Strife"! Ever read it Stuart? Could have been a blueprint for Thatchers crackdown on workers rights from 1979 onwards.From 1945 onwards, good ole boy Manny Shinwell, who was an MP for Easington, as Minister for Labour, prosecuted and imprisoned striking dockers and others, using the Emergency Powers Act, year on year until Labour were eventually kicked out by the Tories, led by another "friend of the workers" Winston (Fat Bastard, Alcoholic, Cigar addicted, lying scumbag) Churchill.Tony Blur and his "friends of the workers" administration, was complicit in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, killed before, during and after the "Illegal" Iraq (war) invasion.Need I go on? Still think Labour are the lesser of two weavils? Stuart! A dose of truth and reality often dispels clouds of bullshit and false optimism I've always found! Take once a day, to prevent any reoccurence.
"Nobody" in the NERB was informed of this. Neither myself as Candidate nor Vin as Election Agent. I check my email's most assiduously.You cannot miss, that which was never sent!!!Over to someone to exp;lain this "oversight".
1. The I.C.. is a committee of the EC. Surely, all committees are committees of the Party! The EC being, for want of a better word, the "Central" committe, who collate all of the activity of the others.
I am a worker, no different to any other worker! I can understand the "Case" for Socialism and the necessity for the same. I had no especial knowledge, when I first approached The Socialist Party, in 1980. I had a sense of disquietude with society, something was not "right". When I met The Socialist Party, the disquietude was silenced, the confusion, abated.Why????????I'm nowt special. No particular acumen, no particular insight. Just a worker who was/is unsatisfied with the way society is organised.I agree with L Bird, we are nowt special! so what makes us special?Sort that out, solve the riddle of the Sphinx, the Gordian Knot, the Rosetta Stone and we've cracked it!!!Roll on the post election symposium/post-mortem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don't really think we should be saying the following;The £250+m wages bill at Old Trafford means £250+m has been sucked out of our economy when it could have been spent on schools, hospitals, railways, care of the elderly, etc.It is of no interest to me, as a Socialist, if £250 is spent on players wages, as opposed to being spent in "our" economy. First of all, its not "my" economy", nor I suspect many other people who peruse or contribute to this site. Nor, I suspect, if this £250 was not spent on players wages, would it be spent on schools, hospitals, railways, care of the elderly or, indeed, any other of the many things that could/would benefit "we", the majority!We have to be careful, when answering these emails, so as not to "take sides", "make choices", about how Capitalism is run/organised, or its priorities are organised.
A post here, http://www.shieldsgazette.com/opinion/your-letters/an-snp-labour-alliance-is-unthinkable-1-7220776#comments-areain reply to my advertising the Seaham Hustings;trouble3:21 PM on 25/04/2015forgive my ignorance but are you/do you think your are some sort of councillor? holding/having such a husting style meeting? my apologies although i would love to attend such meeting with you and your followers i believe i have a million and one better things to do on a friday evening. do you not live near a pub mr colborn? pretty sure ring em bells will be able to point you in the right direction. just to clarify i fully understand what socialism means, by definition my comment was incorrect however socialist views are generally held by the far left, for example you and ring em bells and the majority north of the border!The meeting, for your information, is being organised by the local Churches. It is not being organised by myself, or any other of the candidates!To categorise myself as "far left", is I'm afraid, merely another one of the false assertions put forward by those who claim a knowledge they, in actuality, do not possess.The Socialist Party do not support Capitalism, in any way, shape or form. Whether as reformist supporters of Capitalism, Labour, SWP. Militant, CPGB or any of the other reformist variations.Nor do we/did we consider the so-called Socialist/Communist revolutions in the USSR, China, Cuba et al, as was clearly stated by us, at the exact times these events occurred, to be anything other than revolutions "to", Capitalism, not away from it!The Political Party's mentioned and others, the countries mentioned and others, all support systems which are based on commodity production for profit, They support "elites". A world where we have "classes, IE rich and poor, Capitalists and workers. A world divided into nation states. The Socialist Party, neither support these ideas, nor advocate them.Our total focus is to replace Capitalism, not push the futile attempts to reform it. Just over 100 years of Labour Party history, is proof positive of the futility of this position and an inability to see this, is the profoundest case of burying ones head in the sand, ever seen.
Hi alan. I dont think I'm misdirecting my discontent, or angst for that matter. Maguire is a smart arsed asshole, or thinks he is. He supports Labour, with no proof to back up this "misdirected" support. It is in light of this, that I made my comment.Presumably this arsehole, if he had been around when the Unofficial Labour Reform Committe, were discussing forming a "Party of Labour", would have slagged "them" off, for the low amount of support "they" had at that time.This guy is a supporter of a society that has consigned myself, my family and friends, to lives of stress, insecurity and poverty and as such being the case, is lucky all he has is my discontent.Okay bro?
