History of SPGB
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November 4, 2013 at 11:35 pm #82433
Dave
ParticipantWhats the best history book to read concerning the SPGB? Not sure whether the Monument is worth a look at, there's a copy in the local library. All suggestions greatfully accepted.
November 5, 2013 at 1:23 am #98007Anonymous
InactiveDave wrote:Whats the best history book to read concerning the SPGB? Not sure whether the Monument is worth a look at, there's a copy in the local library. All suggestions greatfully accepted.The Socialist Party of Great Britain. Politics, Economics and Britain's Oldest Socialist Party by David A. Perrin. Bridge Books, Wrexham, 2000.http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2000s/2000/no-1150-june-2000/book-reviews(scroll down)
November 5, 2013 at 2:36 am #98008ALB
KeymasterThere's also a couple of articles here, written on the occasion of our centenary:http://bataillesocialiste.wordpress.com/2005-anglo-marxism-the-spgb-buick/
November 5, 2013 at 9:57 am #98009jondwhite
ParticipantI quite like The Monument.
November 5, 2013 at 3:01 pm #98010imposs1904
ParticipantI like The Monument. I wish I still had my copy.A Party member from yesteryear – Steve Coleman – wrote his PhD on the early history of the SPGB back in the 80s. There was an epub of this doing the rounds a few months back but I don't have a download link immediately to hand.
November 5, 2013 at 3:20 pm #98011jondwhite
Participantthe chapter that concerns the early spgb is reprinted at the bloghttp://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/impossibilism.htmlthere is also the century of political struggle by a few members who left acrimoniouslyhttp://www.socialiststudies.org.uk/pamphlet%20centenary.shtml
November 5, 2013 at 3:28 pm #98012imposs1904
ParticipantDamn, I actually forgot that a few years ago I transcribed Steve Coleman chapter on Impossibilism that originally appeared in Crump and Rubel's Non-Market Socialism in the 19th and 20th Century:http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2009/08/impossibilism-by-stephen-coleman.htmlIt's not exactly what you're asking after but it touches upon aspects of the history of the SPGB.
November 5, 2013 at 3:39 pm #98013Dave
ParticipantThanks everyone will check all the links out. Seems like the SPGB has been wrote out of most working class history. Good to see you all going strong after the last hundred or so years.
November 5, 2013 at 4:02 pm #98014imposs1904
ParticipantTo paraphrase Trotsky, we've been consigned to the footnote of history.
November 6, 2013 at 1:36 am #98015alanjjohnstone
Keymaster"we've been consigned to the footnote of history. " And we are lucky if we even get that!
November 6, 2013 at 9:52 am #98016ALB
KeymasterThere's a collection of footnotes on us here:http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2000s/2004/no-1198-june-2004/others-have-seen-usI don't think it includes Eric Hobsbawn describing us as "wholly unimportant conventicle" (in chapter 12 of his Labouring Men.
November 6, 2013 at 10:36 am #98017alanjjohnstone
KeymasterConventicle – another new word for me that i had to look up. Certainly not in every labouring men's vocabulary so who did Hobsbawn write for? At last we try to aim our propaganda and share our knowledge with our fellow workers in language they understand.
November 6, 2013 at 10:53 am #98018ALB
KeymasterI think CPers like him had got fed up with calling us a sect, but "conventicle" never quite caught on.
November 6, 2013 at 12:32 pm #98019imposs1904
ParticipantALB wrote:There's a collection of footnotes on us here:http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2000s/2004/no-1198-june-2004/others-have-seen-usI don't think it includes Eric Hobsbawn describing us as "wholly unimportant conventicle" (in chapter 12 of his Labouring Men.The silly sod got the date of the Party's formation wrong, which suggests that he just cribbed his lack of knowledge about the SPGB from another CP historian.
August 5, 2014 at 2:01 pm #98020jondwhite
Participantnecroposting but monument is now available herehttps://libcom.org/library/monument-story-socialist-party-great-britain
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