WSP(India) Dec 2017 EC mins
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WORLD SOCIALIST PARTY (INDIA)
257 Baghajatin ‘E’ Block (East), Kolkata – 700086
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MINUTES OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING NO. 182
Head Office, Sunday, December 3, 2017: Called to order: 7:20 PM
Present (EC Members): Sumitra Mondal, Binay Sarkar, Harisadhan Ghosh, Pradip Singha
Absent: None
Attendee: Raghu Narayan Chaudhuri
Election: Chairperson: Sumitra Mondal on motion of Binay Sarkar and Harisadhan Ghosh; Minutes Writer: Pradip Singha
EC Minutes No. 181 was read and confirmed on motion of Binay Sarkar and Harisadhan Ghosh
Membership Application: None
Correspondence: Please note that any comments in square brackets “[]” are comments from the General Secretary.
Inward:
– Academia.edu: We have received 47 emails during 6/11/2017 to 2/12/2017.
Outbound: Responses as required to incoming correspondence.
MSC: To receive and file incoming and to endorse outgoing correspondence.
Matters Arising: The EC notes with concern that Tabrez Julaha Ajlaf is going on campaigning for his own reformist parallel organization as also other political parties defying our repeated cautions.
Reports of Executives and Committees:
Advancement of the Movement:
[B. Sarkar and P. Singha are going on posting and interacting on Facebook timelines. H.S. Ghosh is writing letters to Bengali dailies.]
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Discussion Forum membership stands at 1,907
Sunday Discussion: Every Sunday in the evening we meet to read and discuss Socialism, Marxism, Leninism, Capitalism, Political Economy, Economics and other selected subjects.
Literature: Party literature distribution is going on.
Socialist Standard: August 2017 – no arrival as yet; October 2017 packets arrived.
Unfinished Business: None
New Business:
SPRING SCHOOL & TWENTY FOURTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE WORLD SOCIALIST PARTY (INDIA) TO BE HELD AT HEAD OFFICE, 3 & 4 MARCH 2018 [for schedule details see below]
Financial Report:
Collection of Dues:
Financial Report: November 2017: (Rupees)
Income: 820.00
Expenditure: 759.00
Surplus: 61.00
Deficit BF: 30,001.00
Net Deficit: 29,940.00
Membership Subscription & Donation: Included in “Income” above.
MSC: To accept the financial report and to receive donations with thanks.
Next EC Meeting: Head Office, Sunday, January14, 2018, 5.30 PM
Meeting Adjourned at 8.07 PM.
NO REFORMATION NO PROMISES NO RELIGION NO LEADERSHIP
We need ~
SELF-EMANCIPATION OF OUR CLASS
Through ~ Political class struggle,
In a peaceful and democratic way,
By applying our power of knowledge and number
Via ballot in elections,
And establishing a ~
stateless moneyless wageless classless
BASED ON
UNIVERSAL OWNERSHIP DEMOCRATIC CONTROL PRODUCTION FOR USE
FREE ACCESS FOR ALL ACCORDING TO SELF-DEFINED NEEDS
That is the end of poverty, famine, environmental destruction, war and terrorism; and beginning of peace, freedom and participatory democracy:
The only practical alternative awaits recognition.
Socialism needs you – And you need Socialism.
Recognize Socialism – Vote only for Socialism.
With this end in view
SPRING SCHOOL & TWENTY FOURTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2018
of the
WORLD SOCIALIST PARTY (INDIA)
Will be held at: Head Office,
257 Baghajatin ‘E’ Block (East), Kolkata –700086,
Tel: 2425- 0208, E-mail: wspindia@hotmail.com, Website: http://www.worldsocialistpartyindia.org
SPRING SCHOOL: 3 March, Saturday, 2 PM – 8 PM (with breaks):
Subject: End employment to end unemployment: Speaker: B. Sarkar
ANNUAL CONFERENCE: 4 March, Sunday:
Session – 2 PM – 4 PM: Discussion
Session – II: 5 PM – 8 PM: Membership, Publication and Campaign
ALL OUR MEETINGS ALLOW ADEQUATE TIME FOR QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION. ALL OUR MEETINGS ARE OPEN. ALL ARE WELCOME!
Are 'No reformation' and 'No promises' suitable slogans for WSM companion parties?Is 'self-defined needs' correct, shouldn't it be 'class-defined needs'?Are there any other speakers at Spring schools past or present?Will there be an agenda with motions submitted from a variety of sources for conference and has there been in the past? Are past conference decisions available?Is a treasurers report available?Will 'History of Universal Suffrage' and WSPI pamphlets be open to make use of by companion parties?Where is the link to the WSPI discussion forum?
jondwhite wrote:Are 'No reformation' and 'No promises' suitable slogans for WSM companion parties?"No promises" is certainly ok. We often emphasise that ourselves when we stand at elections. "No reformation" (which presumably is the Indian English for "No Reforms" or "No Reforming". I don't think they mean they are opposed to the Reformation that took place in Christian Europe 500 years ago; that was a good thing as it made the development of capitalism, a precondition for world socialism, easier).Could be misleasing if interpreted as meaning that we are opposed to reforms whereas our position is that we don't advocate them.
Quote:Is 'self-defined needs' correct, shouldn't it be 'class-defined needs'?"Self-defined needs" is a term we have been using for some time now to emphasise that in socialism the individual decides what their needs are. Could be misleading if it is interpreted as meaning that they can have whatever they want whereas they can only have free access to what society has decided should be produced. "Class-defined needs" is certainly not an alternative as there won't be any class, including the working class, in socialism. "Society-defined needs" would give the impression that individuals wouldn't decide what they need. I suppose, to be strictly accurate, we would have to say something like "individuals would have free access to what they decided they needed out of what society had decided should be produced". A bit unwieldy.
Quote:Are there any other speakers at Spring schools past or present?Will there be an agenda with motions submitted from a variety of sources for conference and has there been in the past? Are past conference decisions available?Is a treasurers report available?All their Minutes and accounts are published (and recent ones posted here). Remember that we are dealing with a party the size of one of our branches.
Quote:Will 'History of Universal Suffrage' and WSPI pamphlets be open to make use of by companion parties?Why not. Their pamphlet on the History of Economics is available from Head Office, price 50 rupees + 2nd class postage stamp. Can also be ordered on line here: http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/catalog/non-party-publications/world-socialist-party-india-history-political-economy
Quote:Where is the link to the WSPI discussion forum?Seems to be here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/328364997178353/about/%5B/quote%5D
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