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They were polling at 30% one time but then they suffered from fear factor …the right began to say investors would be scared away and there would be capital flight.But still a good showing by them…and they took defeat well so not too much disillusionment and despair it seems from being beat.We will see if they can last the pace of parliamentary politics until the next election. I don't think the demand for a new constitution has gone away. They will be focusing on that now. How it developed from randomly selected focus-groups and being crowd-sourced gives us an inkling on how socialism will involve participatory e-democracy in its decision-making. No doubt ex-Cde. Coleman will find it under his remit and will be studying its application.As the oldest parliament it is also trying to exercise the newest means of political power…credit where credit is due.
10 seats up from 3 in a voter turn-out of 79%. The Left-Green Party won 10 seats. The Left-Greens, the Pirates and two allies — now have 27 seats, short of the 32 required to command a majority in Iceland’s Parliament, the world’s oldest. 63 MPs for 300k citizensWe, with a population of 60 million people, have 646 MPs; Germany, with a population of 82 million, has 600; Japan, with a population of 127 million – twice the size of ours – has only 470; Russia, with 144 million, has 450; and America, with 293 million, has 430 Congressmen.
Report of the "libertarian" PKK attitude to debate and discussion at this year's Anarchist Bookfairhttps://leilashami.wordpress.com/2016/10/29/london-anarchist-bookfair/Makes you ponder what maybe is going on out of sight on the ground
Got to go along with the others. He isn't even very sophisticated in his argument. A populist making soundbites, not an argumentBut it is a continuous combat to debunk those who see the bankers as the cause of our woes. Didn't detect any anti-semitism in the speech but saw one in the comments. A rule of thumb is if the Rothschilds are mentioned…we have believer in the Illuminati or an anti-semite, probably both I just engaged in a discussion on banking here in the commentshttp://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/38150-the-life-and-times-of-the-1
Quote:They would have allowed us to have a stall at the BookfairI sort of detected a more welcoming attitude to our participation in the Bookfair on the Libcom website. Although proud of their anarchist autonomy this precedent may open up the Sheffield and Bristol and other anarchist book-fairs to us. What is of equal value is the opening up for the opportunity to host public meetings at these book-fairs. Well-done those comrades who volunteered their time and energy.Curious to know what if anything did our members buy at the bookfair…whats the anarchist hot-seller right now?
But my point was that Mr Blobby was not instrumental in us ceasing contesting by-elections but that it was our derisory vote in Livingston – which I have to partially accept responsibility for as election agent2006 Motion 3. "That no more by-elections be contested as they appear to be a waste of money." Lancaster Branch. For: 72 Against: 70 Abstain: 7 MOTION CarriedIt also sparked off that perennial debate…candidate’s photo or camera shy.
Dave B, I have to agree that from what i am told, it is definitely more draconian from my lengthy time signing on. The only hassle i recall is the wait for housing benefit with the landlord breathing down my neck…But now that is much worse too. i once had a house-visit and the guy explained he was here to help me because i was long-term unemployed. During my pretence of saying i was looking for work, i mentioned i had no suitable smart clothes for interviews…So he issued me a cheque for a couple of hundred pounds and this was in the late 70s so it was worth something back then. No follow-up check if i spent it on clothes.I later found out this guy was a civil service union militant and the Jobcentre bosses didn't want him based in an office making trouble and so gave him this roaming duty to visit people like me and a budget to spend on the likes of myself while he got his travelling and lodging expenses as a pay-off.Nothing like that these days, eh?
Mr. Blobby is innocent !!If my memory serves me right, it was the Livingstone by-election in 2005 which resulted in the party decision not to stand in by-electionsIn Livingstone we got 32 votes and were at the bottom of the poll, beaten even by a religious crazy candidate.The Labour winner was later discredited in the MP expenses scandal and sent to jail.
If you do, Robbo, PM me so i can send you copy of my letter which is a rip-off some of your own ECA articles so we don't duplicate our replies. Or anybody else, for that matter
To return to the topic theme, this may be a useful related videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs&app=desktop
I once possessed Velli's (fredy perlman) manual for revolutionary leaders…a book made up from quotes. It was difficult guessing the sources. https://libcom.org/library/michael-velli-manual-revolutionary-leaders-second-edition-including-sources-m-vellis-tho
Still under the radar of most political commentators but the Pirate Party in Iceland are on track to win the general election and become the government.
Quote:People want real changes and they understand that we have to change the systems, we have to modernise how we make laws,”I think the core problem is convincing people that they can initiate change and things don't need to be the same and that our electoral strategy can work. I think that is much harder than actually persuading them that moneyless socialism can work . The big issue is always…how do we get there? How is it going to happen?And with so many other "socialists" with their own particular roads to socialism i can't blame people for being confused and sceptical of our own solution.We have to make fellow workers optimistic that socialism can be achieved. I think we had more hope and people had more confidence a hundred years ago than they do now. In the sense of being positive about the opportunities and chances of socialism being established, i think we have not advanced and are even further away from it.
