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Queen Capital’s Jubilee

An extra day’s holiday is always welcome, but why should we be celebrate the diamond jubilee of a left-over from feudalism?

Although not a deliberate decision by the British capitalist...

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What About the Workers?

Postal rates sky-rocketed on 30 April as a prelude to the privatisation of Royal Mail, but how will the workers there be affected?

The AGM of the postal workers trade union, the...

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Material World: India’s God Industry

Politicised Hinduism or ‘Hindutva’ has not attracted the same attention – outside India at least – as similar movements in Islam and Christianity. But it is no less remarkable. The social forces...

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After the Gold Rush

Scandals abound in the private ‘employability and work-based training’ sector. The latest of these involves the company A4e, whose workers are up before the beak on fraud charges, much to the...

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Summer School - 6th to 8th July 2012 (Birmingham)

http://www.harbornehall.co.uk/

Worldwide, people have reacted to the political and economic crisis with new forms of protest.  From the Arab Spring uprisings to the Occupy Movement, activists are rejecting traditional forms of political assembly, and are looking for new ways of organisation.

But what will be the consequences of these new battles in the class war?  Will these protests result in any lasting, positive change for the working class?  Could they point towards a revolution?  Or will they go the way of all reformism and just prolong the capitalist system which traps us all?

The Socialist Party's weekend of talks and discussion will examine protests in all its forms - its aims, methods and effects.

The Occupy Movement: Ian Barker (Occupy Norwich) & Stair (SPGB)

The Arab Spring: capitalism, imperialism and religion or democracy?: Janet Surman

What did the Romans do for us? Bill Martin

Protest and the Environment: Glenn Morris

Policing the Protests: Mike Foster

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Full residential cost (including accommodation and meals Friday evening to Sunday afternoon) is £140.  Concessions are available.

Editorial: Caring is Not Enough

A system is not a thing which is capable of caring for anything or anyone, it simply performs the functions it was set up or adapted to perform. Capitalism is set up to enable the pursuit of profit for private gain, regardless of other ‘external’ outcomes. The chief beneficiaries of this system do care but only about protecting their interests. Their main concern is for the wellbeing of their own future, and short term gains always take priority over less profitable long term considerations. Such questions as the health and wellbeing of workers are treated as externalities, as is the state of the planet, now being plundered and abused to irredeemable levels through reckless use of its resources and pollution of land, water and air.

Bronterre O’Brien and Working Class Radicalism

Part of the series 'Socialist Thinkers: People Who History Made'

Islington Branch

Recorded: 
Sunday, 21 November 1982

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The Socialist Party's latest pamphlet

What's Wrong With Using Parliament?

This pamphlet comes at a time when many people are questioning the destructive effects of capitalism, and also with it a rejection of leaders and the traditional left.

This is something that can be encouraged. The aim of the pamphlet is to show that there is another view of social change that may be a blind spot with those who get involved with anti-capitalist, activist or/and anarchist politics.

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