alanjjohnstone
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Perhaps it might be if you could hear the questions clearly…maybe we should add sub-titles to it…i think that is easily done, isn't it?But i actually disagree…Paddy's clip from Kid Stuff video, i rather like and preferBut we should have a much wider choice of similar short clips and those should be rotated about on our website home-page…Why are we so slow in creating videos or flash animations….come next years elections or pending euro referendum, we'll be panicking at the last moment to produce something new and ending up probably re-hashing the old stuff we have got. What do they say…people don't tend fix roofs on sunny days…
There is plenty of others who are more capable of that sort of opposition than ourselves and i'm not just talking about political parties, plenty of NGOs have made their disagreement with it clear. But they won't be attacking it from a socialist stance. Our task is slightly more harder and complicated…to demonstrate that austerity policies are inherent within the capitalist system and particularly during its crises… Thus we have to be more radical and revolutionary in our solutions…such as a money-free, market-free private-property-free and wage-free world. For sure, we will not gain a mass audience for that message …but perhaps we can gather together the odds and sods floating about who have reached a similar conclusion that mere reformism has been tried and has failed …
Platformism i was aware of its meaning and is origins within the anarchist milieu….but now especificismo …or " i'm a member of of an especificista group"Trying to make things simple, eh, comrades? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Especifismo
It wouldn't explain the support Soviet Union/Russia have given Syria since 1955. http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/833/the-syria-soviet-alliance(despite the suspect source it lays out a fairly accurate time-line) CNN seems to concur with it http://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/09/opinion/russia-syria-relations/I think the main priority right now for Russia is to secure its marine base by keeping Assad in power https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_naval_facility_in_TartusPlus as usual demonstrating that any alliance with Russia will be honoured, something future potential allies would want to be assured of.Another interesting theory, though, is the abortive Qatar-Syrian pipeline …plenty on the web on ithttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar-Turkey_pipelinehttp://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-09-10/competing-gas-pipelines-are-fueling-syrian-war-migrant-crisishttp://www.globalresearch.ca/the-geopolitics-of-gas-and-the-syrian-crisis-syrian-opposition-armed-to-thwart-construction-of-iran-iraq-syria-gas-pipeline/5337452Does it explain the long-established monarchist Saudi antipathy to a republican rival, though?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia%E2%80%93Syria_relationsI'm fairly suspicious of simplistic one-cause explanations…A lot of different interests are involved…the fact that Israel now think oil exists in the occupied Golan Heights no way determines its relations with Syria, for example.The real tension that might have unintended consequences is the off-shore oil/gas that Israel and Lebanon and the proto-Palestinian state are claiming…If the water supply is anything to go by, Israel will somehow acquire the giant share, i'm betting.
I don't think you can automatically declare a bias simply because she is an Arab-American. You'd be more on target by citing her last job with HRW. She seems to be a career-woman for NGOs. She is certainly anti-Assad.Full AI report http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/files/live//sites/almonitor/files/documents/2015/AI.WeHadNowhereElseToGo.PDFThe Kurds do not deny all the accusations but justify them as isolated and in the interests of the safety of the locals. And have identified those who supported ISIS.Collective punishment whether Israeli house demolitions or Kurdish are treated alike as war crimes by AI…Or should they be discrimatory in apportion blame and culpability.
Amnesty denies YPG denialhttp://eurasianews.de/en/amnesty-international-confirms-kurdish-militia-ypg-commits-war-crimes-in-syria/
Quote:the YPG threatened to request airstrikes from the US-led coalition, if they fail to leave their houses.“They told us we had to leave or they would tell the US coalition that we were terrorists and their planes would hit us and our families,” said one of the residents, Safwan, published on Amnesty International. The Kurdish militias refused said allegations, saying it was a preventive measure of isolation, to protect civilians in the near-by regions. However, Amnesty could not verify those claims, since no fights were taking place in near-by villages. “The Autonomous Administration must immediately stop the unlawful demolition of civilian homes, compensate all civilians whose homes were unlawfully destroyed, cease unlawful forced displacements, and allow civilians to return and rebuild,” said Lama Fakih.You and i are in no position to be 100% sure of what is the truth, but we both know in that cliche, truth is the first casualty of war. Identifying moderates in the midst of a complicated civil war is difficult.
He wishes to create a league table of of victims and their suffering…defines exploitation non-marxian…re-write history.But who was he engaging the SPGB on Twitter, can anybody recall the actual exchanges…curious to learn what was said
I should add to organisations that is sometimes suspect, the website you link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_Observatory_for_Human_Rights
Perhaps they do, ALB, but i'm hard pushed to recall any government or army that has ever accepted any of Amnesty International's reports unless it is about their rivals and opposition. We do have sometimes a quandary, they, Human Rights Watch and Reporters Without Borders are sometimes accused of political bias that affects their objectivity so yes , i think, we should sometimes reserve judgement.
Started to watch the Marx Ha Vuelta but what struck me…Marx is depicted rather as a frail old man (especially since in 1848 when he wrote Communist Manifesto he was in his prime)… more like James Randi. Whereas "The Moor" offers the image of someone strong forceful and powerful. Someone like the bearded Brian Blessed is much more the sort of actor i would envisage … thundering voice…devastating glare…Someone not to mess with, despite whatever age.
I thought i just give the viewpoint on Corbyn from Elvis Costello
Quote:And Jeremy Corbyn? Costello says he’s been amused by the way the rightwing press is portraying the new Labour leader as a major threat to British national security. “Corbyn can’t actually change anything, even inside his own party. So what are they so afraid of, if not another opinion? He’s just expressing views that are different from theirs – I thought that was democracy.”http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/oct/16/elvis-costello-interview-people-have-no-idea
Quote:shouldn't there normally only be two a day, one for each time zone?Darn, i'm about 20 short, in that case, ALB Today was just one of those days that several stories in the media struck me worth highlighting…as i said elsewhere on the forum, the blog will be concentrating more on environmental issue….Other days i struggle for a decent single post for the blog. While some days it is as if the blog has a live-feed with almost hourly updates to it if i'm online for any length of time. I don't think it is a serious challenge to read half-a-dozen posts…particularly when some are related. I'm confident that visitors can single out the more pertinent posts from the chaff. But your reference did make me realise my spelling isn't too sharp…single t in commitment, now correctedI would also like to invite and encourage all other members to contribute to the blog as Cde. Skelly did. You aren't required to be a member of the blog to do so…just email with a submission:spgb.blog@worldsocialism.org with your submission
Aye, Vin, pay my first class air-fare to Paris and book me a 5-star hotel and i'll go, tooBut as Gnome suggests, if there was a demand for a delegation which he rightly judged there wasn't then i am sure the Party would pay expenses (reasonable claims, that is)If we cannot get members to volunteer for party positions or participate in party campaigns, then how can a communication strategy for convincing non-members really help stop the growing malaise in the party. I suggest if we cannot do so in physical sense we made the most of a cyber campaign to present our socialist solution to the growing likliehood of the "end of the world as we know it"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY
