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You are right, but I don't think much of the photo of the one from Brighton Kemptown. Let's see if I have more success in uploading those we've got from Vauxhall and Oxford East. Can't do the one for Swansea as the only one we have at the moment has "junk mail" scrawled across it.I see Vin (and others) can tweet these leaflets when uploaded ….

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More information has been added to the meetyournextmp site, including the provision of links to the party's website and Wikipedia page.  Only three candidates, however, have party election addresses uploaded to their pages.

Actually, only one election address is there (for Easington). The other two are CVs.We don't actually have copies of what Royal Mail delivered (or didn't) as these were sent direct to them by our printers. So we need a mimimum of two or three, one for our archives and a couple to send to universities which have collections of all election leaflets. So far, we got at Head Office, 3 from Oxford East and 1 from Vauxhall but we know that members have collected some in Islington and Swansea. So, if anyone reading this has some for these and the others can they send them on to Head Office. Thanks.

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Here's the debate ion immigration on BBC Radio Oxford this morning at which Kevin Parkin took part:http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02q637fKevin managed to bring out well that socialists consider themselves  "citizens of the world" and not, like the other candidates, Brits wanting to control "our" borders and keep out immigrant benefit "scroungers". Bit annoying that the presenter kept on saying that "immigration" was a big issue when it's not really, only what the media are telling people to think is, so opening the way for UKIP whose representative here caught the ball and ran with it.

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Here's Mike's comments on the general election manifesto of the Oxford University Students Union which asked him for them:http://ousu.org/representing-you/your-reps/sabb/LouisTrup/2015/04/27/General-Election-Manifesto-The-Socialist-Party-Response/

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The BBC have sent us a clip of what was broadcast but it's complicated to get to look at. Don't know if this will get you there. DownloadFiles (5.87 MB total) Socialist Party.wmvWill be deleted on 4 May, 2015 

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These enquiries will come from three sources: the election communications delivered (or not delivered in some cases) by royal mail, replies to 38 Degrees emails, and from other leaflets, distributed by us.

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We will be taking part in a live broadcast on BBC Radio Oxford tomorrow morning. We've been invited as we're contesting 2 of the 6 seats in Oxfordshire. Here's the details from them:

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Just wanted to update you on Tuesday's Immigration debate.Here's the finalised line-up:SOCIALIST PARTY OF GREAT BRITAIN – Kevin Parkin (Oxford East)CONS –  Sir Tony Baldry (former Banbury MP)LABOUR – Sam Juthani (Henley)LIB DEMS – Layla Moran (OxWAb)GREENS – Ann Duncan (Ox East)UKIP – Simon Strutt (Witney)It will be a LIVE round table debate in the studio so the only LIVE audience will be the listeners.  Everybody will be in the studio so if you can please arrive at 0845am.It will run from 09:00 to 10:00 at the very latest.  It will be divided into 3 or 4 sections, looking at different aspects:  the impact on labour market; pressure on welfare/NHS; differences in immigration policy.The questions will be interspersed with pre-recorded clips from people we've spoken to during our Big Ballot Box Tour.  There will also be some brief pre-recorded "Fact Boxes" from Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva from the Migration Observatory at The University of Oxford. You'lll also have a full interrupted minute at the end to outline you Party's policy in this area.Finally a small advisory note:  we have tried to balance the contributors across the 6 Oxfordshire seats, so you be asked to speak on behalf of your party rather than on a constituency level.

BBC Radio Oxford is on 95.2FM, digital radio and online. 

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A report of a hustings last Wednesday at which our candidate in Oxford East, Kevin Parkin spoke:https://oxfordecohustings.wordpress.com/2015/04/25/oxfrod-east-hustings-report/Plenty of photos of him but nothing about what he said:https://www.flickr.com/photos/karloxford/sets/72157651704020817/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-england-32428291

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I think someone mentioned this before but here's the Weekly Worker's full staterment:

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In the forthcoming general election we urge critical support for candidates according to the following priority order:Labour candidates who support the statement coordinated by Michael Meacher and signed by 15 Labour MPs in January 2015. Namely Diane Abbott, Dave Anderson, Katy Clark, Jeremy Corbyn, Fabian Hamilton, Kelvin Hopkins, Ian Lavery, John McDonnell, Michael Meacher, Ian Mearns, Grahame Morris, Linda Riordan, Steve Rotherham, Jim Sheridan and Chris Williamson.They oppose Labour’s current deficit reduction plans, call for the renationalisation of the railways and a return to collective bargaining and employment rights in the workplace. We want to emphasise that the Labour Party remains a bourgeois workers’ party and therefore a strategic site of struggle.Left Unity candidates. There are many weaknesses in LU’s manifesto, but despite that there is much that is positive. Eg, it stands against demands for British withdrawal from the EU; it supports open borders. We also note that, though LU has no agreed position on the Labour Party, it has declined to stand candidates against Labour lefts.Candidates standing under the banner of the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition. Those behind Tusc aim to establish a Labour Party mark II. As such this is a hopeless and utterly illusory project. It also bases itself on lowest-common-denominator unity. Nevertheless a half-decent showing by Tusc candidates, including those in Scotland, would undoubtedly be positive, given the suffocating austerity consensus reigning amongst mainstream parties.Other leftwing candidates: eg, the Morning Star’s Communist Party of Britain, Socialist Party of Great Britain, etc.Where there is no supportable candidate, the CPGB urges voters to spoil their ballot papers with some suitable message: eg, ‘For socialism’.

If I've followed these convolutions correctly they are calling for a vote not for us in the following order: Islington North (Jeremy Corbyn),, Easington (Grahame Morris),  Vauxhall (Left Unity), Swansea West, Oxford East, Folkestone & Hythe (TUSC) and a vote for us (without illusions) in: Canterbury,  Oxford West & Abingdon,  Brighton Kemptown and even Brighton Pavilion (even against Caroline Lucas). Also, like us, in the vast majority of constituencies to write "Socialism" across the ballot paper.

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Report of a hustings in Oxford on Wednesday:http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/elections_2015/12908109.NHS_and_concerns_about_care_top_agenda_for_OAPs_at_Age_UK_hustings/?ref=macAt least we were there and it was mentioned that we were.

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jondwhite wrote:

The Irish Question: A Socialist Analysis (1976) is not. S.P.G.B. – Utopian or Scientific? The Fallacy of the Overwhelming Minority (1949) has the same party status as The Irish Question: A Socialist Analysis (1976).

This is pedantry and also insulting. True, both have the same "status" as non-party publications but "The Irish Question" was written by a socialist and puts the party case (in fact a large part of it had previously been published in the Socialist Standard). The other one is anti-socialist crap not worth the paper is was printed on and certainly not at all a priority for reproducing on the internet.

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Nearly forgot but our half-page advertisement will be appearing in tomorrow's (Friday) Morning Star.

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I saw someone selling "Socialist Worker" so I thought I'd buy a copy to see what they had to say about the elections. They are a junior partner in TUSC and call for a vote for TUSC but only seem to give prominence to TUSC candidates who are SWP members. In Oxford there are conspicious by their absence in the campaign for the TUSC candidate there, who is a member of SPEW and is virtually just a one-man show.Where there is no TUSC candidate their position is to vote Labour:

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Millions of workers who do not think much of Ed Miliband will nevertheless vote Labour to eject the Tories and block Ukip. In a withered and distorted way Labour retains a link to organised workers through the union leaders. If there is no left or radical candidate then we are for voting Labour.

Outgoing Green MP for Brighton Pavilion Caroline Lucas is identified as one "radical candidate". But "in Scotland where there is no socialist candidate it is impossible to call simply for a Labour vote or for an SNP one", leaving their folowers in such places not knowing which way to turn.Basically, they want a Labour government..

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Young Master Smeet wrote:

Looks like today is Republic day. 

Actually, it's the queen's real birthday. Here's what our candidates in Oxford replied:

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Yes, the socialist society  we envisage is incompatible with the existence of the monarchy as well as with all other aristocratic and capitalist privilege but equally with the existence of the capitalist state, whether republic or monarchy.

Meanwhile one of our candidates there, Mike Foster, in Oxdord West & Abingdon, is described in a letter in today's Oxford Mail as "an unreconstructed 'commimist'". Actually, he is but doubtless not in the sense the writer meant.

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Video of the hustings in Botley, near Oxford, last Friday from a local on-line newspaper:http://www.oxfordshireguardian.co.uk/hustings-text/Mike appears about 3.36 minutes in for a minute and a half. Only problem is that we're again called in the accompanying text the "Socialist Workers Party". It seems that in remotest Oxfordshire that's all they've heard about socialism. A correction has been asked for and will no doubt be made. This evening Mike ventures even deeper into remote Oxfordshire, to a hustings at Wooton and Dry Sandford Community Centre.

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