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jondwhite wrote:Why are Turks any more nationalist than Brits?
Their nationalism is more intense because the Turkish State has not been in existence as long so that its partisans have had to wage a more recent and more determined struggle to get support against conservative ideas such as nostalgia for the Ottoman Empire, Islam, etc. There was an article which touched on this in the March Socialist Standard:http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2010s/2018/no-1363-march-2018/turkey-whats-goingIn Britain the stuff put out by the so-called "Communist Party of Britain Marxist-Leninist" on Brexit is virtually indistinguisable from that put out by UKIP. See for example the front cover and content of their pamphlet Take Control which can be downloaded from their site (it's on the right):https://www.cpbml.org.uk/
No it wouldn't work. Speaking as a car driver, it's a crackpot idea. Cyclists are already enough of a problem.In the Lambeth Central by-election in 1978 Commander Boaks was amongst our opponents. He finished bottom well below us:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambeth_Central_by-election,_1978
Result in Borough & Bankside ward (Southwark):http://spgb.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/borough-and-bankside-result.htmlResult of Barnes ward (Richmond):http://spgb.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/barnes-result.htmlJunction ward (Islington): still being counted.
No doubt because they are nationalists as all "Marxists-Leninists" deliberately are. Incidentally, over the years we have had a few members (I can think of 4) from "Turks based in London".
The text of the interview is the bottom half (the top half is an interview with a French trade unionist). It seems to be about Kevin's experiences as a trade unionist since the days of Thatcher but the Party and the fact that he/we are contesting a local election gets a mention.Anyone out there read Danish?
Three members ran a small stall and handed out leaflets (surplus London election ones). Sunny day but the turnout for the march was pathetic. Without the Turkish, Kurdish and Tamil "Marxist-Leninists", some brandishing pictures of Stalin, there'd have been hardly anybody on it. Hardly any trade unionists as such. In fact it was a "Marxist-Leninist" rather than a Trotskyist convention. Still, we met some old contacts and had some interesting conversations.There's an official TUC march and rally on Saturday 12 May at which there will be many, many more.
I would think that future historians of capitalism's wars will come to the conclusion that the establishment of Israel and its sustaining as an outpost of the Western capitalist powers to further their interests in the Middle East was a monumental mistake even by capitalism's standards.
I would say that it's due to bad reporting and/or sub-editing by the Grauniad, one of the reasons why it's going down the pan.On the substantive issue, it's going to be interesting — a dodgy dossier case where the bombing powers are on different sides. This could result in a more objective discussion of the issue and dissection of the allegations in the mainstream media than when the three bombing states are on the same side..But what a hypocrite Nutty Yahoo is. As if israel had not itself secretly, and successfully, developed mass destruction nuclear weapons and still won't admit that it has done this.
Yes, that's annoying but it should be possible to restore in the online version of the article what to what both the author and the editorial committee intended. We will publish a correction in the June issue.
When Russia brought witnesses from Douma to testify at a press conference at the headquarter of the Organisation for the Progibition of Chemical Weapons in the Hague last week, an ITV journalist (who they promise to name and shame)
Quote:asked the witnesses how much they were paid for taking part in the press conference,It is not a question asked of the witnesses brought forward by the rebel side, but the obvious reply is of course "how much were you paid to ask this question?" The answer is provided by the famous poem by Humbert Wolfe "The British Journalist":
Quote:You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God! the British journalist. But, seeing what the man will do unbribed, there's no occasion to.Incidentally, I notice that his wikipedia entry also says:
Quote:Wolfe said, in an interview with Twentieth Century Authors, that he was "of no political creed, except that his general view is that money and its possessors should be abolished"From yesterday's Southwark News:https://www.southwarknews.co.uk/news/local-election-2018-socialist-party-of-great-britains-kevin-parkin-says-southwarks-problems-cant-be-solved-by-capitalism/As they say, it's the case not the face.
These have been added .Click on title to read:
Quote:The Advance of Technology, October 1965Alcoholics Numerous, February 1966Violence breeds violence, October 1966Notes on production for use, December 1982 Production for use, February 1983How socialism can increase food production, April 1984How Socialism Can Organise Production Without Money, Winter 1984Tin pot madness, December 1985 Remove the barrier of profit, January 1994 "It's only human nature", September 2001 Criticism, alienation and engagement, March 2004Breakdown at The Hague (1), January 2001Breakdown at The Hague (2), February 2001Breakdown at The Hague (3), March 2001Just got round to reading this. As an introduction to a re-edition of The Communist Manifesto (which it is) it's not bad and far better than those by AJP Taylor, David Harvey, etc.Just a mnor point, although it is true that the Manifesto was first pinted in London, at 46 Liverpool Street, Bishopsgate, it is not true that it was "commissioned by English revolutionaries". As its name (and language in which it was published) suggest, it was commissioned by German revolutionaries in the Bund der Kommunisten (Communist League).On its relevance today Varouflakis writes;
Quote:Given that it is neither possible nor desirable to annul capitalism’s “energy”, the trick is to help speed up capital’s development (so that it burns up like a meteor rushing through the atmosphere) while, on the other hand, resisting (through rational, collective action) its tendency to steamroller our human spirit. In short, the manifesto’s recommendation is that we push capital to its limits while limiting its consequences and preparing for its socialisation.This might have been a socialist perspective in 1848 (though the Manifesto clearly expectsnand states that a proletarian revolutioi in Germany is to immediately follow the then attempted bourgeois revolution there), it makes no sense today. It was in fact the perspective of the Social Democratic and Leninist parties when in power: further develop capitalism while trying mitigate the effects of this on the workers. Today, it is socialism that is the immediate issue and has been for years.
alanjjohnstone wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/17/syria-crisis-medics-intimidated-over-douma-gas-attackQuote:medics who responded to the suspected gas attack in Douma have been subjected to “extreme intimidation” by Syrian officials who seized biological samples, forced them to abandon patients and demanded their silence.With so many conflicting narratives, i find it hard to make a judgment
As an organisation financed by the bombing states, UOSSOM would say that, wouldn't they? It's part of a propaganda war in case the OPCW inspectors should find there was no gas attack, which of course would have devastating political consequences.http://www.uossm.org/who_we_areI agree, though, that it's not so much a question of who to believe as to who to disbelieve the least.
