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Thatcher – the most unpopular Prime Minister since Spencer Perceval – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Perceval
ALB wrote:I know she was just doing what capitalist conditions at the time demanded, but she did enjoy doing it and that's not compulsory in a capitalist politician. That's what makes her so hateful and no doubt why millions up and down the country will be rejoicing at her demise.Thatcher was an arch ruling class war warrior, she hated the working class, I am reminded of French bourgeois politician Thiers who crushed the Paris Commune of 1871 and had 30,000 of the working class executed. Thatcher had the police dip their swords in the blood of the organised working class by crushing trade union power in the miners, printers and others, Marx said of Thiers – "the most consummate intellectual expression of their own class corruption", this applies to Thatcher.Thiers/Thatcher- "consistent only in his greed for wealth and his hatred of the working class that produce it"Kropotkin wrote; “the bourgeois hating his slave, ready to kill him like game, animated by the most savage instincts as soon as he is menaced in his possession” – this applies to capitalism always, to the 1980s and Thatcher and to today.
Indictment of Capitalist Class behaviourTthe idle Parasitical Capitalist Class – 9th July 2012 – at the £5 million five-storey townhouse in Cadogan Place, Belgravia, the body of 48 year old Eva Rausing was found by Police. A later inquest estimated her death to have taken place on 7th May (2 months earlier) due to drug dependency issues (crack cocaine, heroin, cocaine). She was the wife of Hans Kristian Rausing who was living there with the body . He is the heir to the £5.4 billion 'Tetra Pak' drinks carton empire. In 2008 Mrs Rausing was caught in possession of crack cocaine, heroin and diethlypropion (a banned stimulant and appetite supressant – 'speed' then) in the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square. The Rausing house was then searched and crack cocaine, cocaine and heroin found – he was charged with possession, but after his lawyers got onto the case he got a conditional police caution ! (no custodial sentence then) After his wife's body was found Rausing was charged with delaying the burial of her body – an offence under English Common Law – he pleaded guilty on 1st August 2012 and sentenced to 10 months in prison which the Judge suspended for 2 years (no custodial sentence then). He was ordered to attend a 2 year drug rehabilitation programme instead.
London May Day Organising Committee have announced a march and rally on Wednesday 1st May 2013 to celebrate International Workers' Day (also known as May Day).ASSEMBLE CLERKENWELL GREEN EC1 12.00MARCH TO TRAFALGAR SQUARE STARTS 13.00The Socialist Party of Great Britain hope to have a stall with our literature outside the Marx Memorial Library at Clerkenwell Green at 12 Noon on wednesday 1st May. See you there Oxfordrocks.
Economic crisis in Cyprus has seen rise of far-right party National Popular Front aka Ethniko Laiko Metopo (Elam) which has links to Golden Dawn in Greece.
http://www.walkingbutterfly.com/2011/03/14/muntzer-omnia-sunt-communia/Along with the revolutionary watchword 'Abolition of the Wages System' we should use OMNIA SUNT COMMUNIA – All property should be held in commonRequired reading Engels The Peasant War in Germany,Required film viewing – I got this from Germany – DVD of 1956 DDR film 'Thomas Munzer' in German, unfortunately no English subtitles – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0230875/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_M%C3%BCntzer_%28film%29
The economic slump in Germany 1929-32 benefitted the Nazis. The Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn Party in Greece have risen at a time of severe economic crisis.
The bourgeois tenet of freedom of the press is really under threat. Extra clauses to the Crime and Courts Bill are intended to bully “relevant publications” into signing up for the new regulator. Any that remain outside, Private Eye, or The Spectator could be stung for “exemplary damages” if they are sued. Will the 'Socialist Standard' be at risk ? Francis Wheen makes a pertinent point: "MPs say that they have no wish to gag the press, but few of them care all that passionately about it. Some, indeed, regard themselves as fellow “victims”, along with the Dowlers, because their expenses fiddles were exposed" Courts will have to define “news-related material” and “relevant publications”. There is criminal law already in existence which is being used to prosecute newspapers for their 'sins' regarding the Dowlers.Britain is signed up to the European Convention on Human Rights – Article 8 – Right to respect for private and family life – 1. Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence. 2. There shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others. This can be used for newspapers when it oversteps the mark in the instance of the Dowlers.There is bourgeois freedom of the press in France and they have a strict privacy law, based on a single sentence in Article 9 of the Civil Code: "Everyone has the right to privacy", which dates back to 1970. This right, which became part of the constitution in 1995, includes not only the disclosure of a person's private life but also the unauthorised taking of photographs and their publication. This restriction on the freedom of the press Britain is adopting would be unheard of in the home of bourgeois liberty – the USA where the First Amendment to the US Constitution: “Congress shall make no law respecting… prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press” is sacrosanct. The Fathers of bourgeois liberty such as John Milton, Tom Paine, Thomas Jefferson and John Stuart Mill must be turning in their graves.We live in increasingly dangerous times regarding authoritarianism, creeping political state power and the diminution of the freedom to dissent from the bourgeois consensus. The freedom of speech and independence of the 'Socialist Standard' in bourgeois capitalist society is 'protected' by the notion of freedom of the press established by the non-renewal of the Licensing Act in 1695, and the abolition of stamp duty tax on newspapers in 1855.http://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/freedom-of-press-marx-milton-and-leveson.html
What is interesting about 'Spirit of 45' is that these reformist leftists now view 'nationalisation' critically. John Rees wanting 'workers control' or 'management by local committees', ex NUM talking heads seeing topdown nationalisation, same managers from private days, essentially 'state capitalist' enterprises. All this is an advance from obsession with 'Clause 4'Should the SPGB debate with Loach and or Owen Jones, would pull in lots of people and we can get our 'socialist message' across, Head Office probably too small, Conway Hall ? Peter Tatchell's ideas about 'economic democracy' should be debatedThe implosion of the SWP will leave lots of Trots abandoning leninist democratic centralism, where are they going to go ? Into 'Left Unity PArty' ? They should come to the SPGB.The SPGB also had a high membership tally in the late 1960s when capitalism was still booming in the West. Economic slumps do not benefit socialism, in fact reformist ideas from the Right Wing proliferate like UKIP here, neo nazis such as the BNP a few years ago and currently in Greece there is neo nazi Golden Dawn.
