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No, not too late. Email your postal address to socialist party head office : spgb [at] worldsocialism.org and say how many leaflets you want.
Here is the Electoral Commission’s advice/code of conduct on campaigning outside polling places:
Here’s what the conspiracy-mongers of The Light are saying about the election. They are backing anti-Israel independents such an Andrew Feinstein as well
as their own. A comrade from Stroud reports that that their stall there has a placard praising Jeremy Corbyn (yes Jeremy, not his nutty brother Piers). They are also supporting a candidate there who is linked to this site:https://breakpartypolitics.co.uk/
The front page article, with a cartoon based on one of Galloway’s favourite quips, is by the former LibDem MP Lembit Opik.
Anyway, here it is:
https://thelightpaper.co.uk/assets/pdf/The-Light-46-Jun-24-Web-Final.pdf
Your personal theory does not hold water. For a start, the transition from Protestantism to Deism as the last stop before atheism did take place in America. The most well-known deists are in fact some of the founding fathers of the American Republic such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin. To which can be added Thomas Paine.
A comrade on that continent wants to draw attention to this alternative theory which seems to have the advantage of being based on actual research:
The comrade also mentions this:
It seems that yet again things are not as bad as you like to think.
We have managed to track down the missing write-in vote for socialism. It is here:
The BBC have now corrected the link from our name. See here:
In this week’s edition of the Weekly Worker Robin Cox accedes to ZJW’s request above.
There is also a letter from our philosophical friend from Liverpool which is not bad.
Meanwhile the others are still disputing on what is a minimum programme. We have certainly put the cat amongst the pidgeons there, an unintended bonus of our decision to contest the GLA elections.
Definitely not him. He went on to join the Labour Party and even, I think, became a Labour councillor.
The Revolutionary Communist Group were outside Brixton Tube station this morning (and so got one of our leaflets) handing out a leaflet headed “A vote for Labour is a vote for genocide!” which says:
“The mantra “kick out the Tories” is a dog whistle for a Labour vote, since the Tories can only be ‘kicked out’ of government by a Labour general election victory. It is a call to replace one virulently racist, imperialist, anti-working class government by another. But it enables left organisations like the SWP, Socialist Party, Socialist Alternative, Revolutionary Communist Party to name but four, to maintain their support for Labour while pretending to oppose it. Meanwhile, the many organisations created by disillusioned Labour supporters – Transform Politics, No Ceasefire – No Vote, Collective, TUSC, Muslim Vote, We Deserve Better, Reliance Party, the Rise Movement, etc etc – are endorsing left Labour candidates like Zarah Sultana, even when such people brazenly place their parliamentary careers before any political principles. They are standing “independent” candidates ostensibly to challenge Labour’s support for the Zionist onslaught – but they have no intention of threatening a Labour victory and are targeting constituencies with a solid Labour majority and a right-wing Labour candidate.”
and
“A vote for Corbyn is a vote for nostalgia and nothing more, a vote for Galloway is a vote for a sexist, homophobic and transphobic charlatan, a vote for Feinstein is a vote for personal ambition. Such votes do not take the movement forward one iota. Nor does a vote for the many other opportunists.”
Their conclusion “Don’t Vote, Organise!” (in their vanguard party of course)
A sympathiser took a photo of their postal vote ballot paper with “World Socialism” written across it and posted it on Twitter. It is now marked as “unavailable”. Maybe because a Twitter employee thought that photoing your ballot paper is illegal. In fact taking a photo of your own postal ballot paper is not illegal, at least not in Britain. Postal voters here are perfectly entitled to show how they voted.
Are you saying that workers should vote for Feinstein, Galloway, Corbyn and the others or just letting us know that this is Jonathan Cook’s view?
More on the Workers’ Party candidate in Battersea, Dan Smith. According to this interview with a local
online paper, he is not simply a Remainer but a Rejoiner.Asked:
“In the 2016 EU referendum there was a 70 % remain vote here, one of the highest in the country. There is still a lot of strong feeling about Brexit – but how relevant is it as an issue in this election?”
He replied:
“I voted remain and if there is the right opportunity to rejoin, I will push hard for this. I know politicians like to be overly prolix with their words but I prefer my responses to be more concise and to the point.”
At least he wasn’t a Brexiteer — unlike the Leader of his party who campaigned for Brexit and even supported the Brexit party in the 2019 European Parliament elections.
Meet Dan Smith, Workers Party of Britain candidate for Battersea
The independent candidate for Clapham and Brixton Hill, Jon Key, called in at our office this morning. He said most people hated the main political parties and hoped that we would debate against the Reform Party in particular. He took our leaflet and the July Socialist Standard, out today so it can circulate a week before election day (since quite a bit is on the election).
An Irish Trotskyist party, People before Profit, is standing in 3 constituencies in Northern Ireland. Here is their election broadcast:
The BBC have committed simple error. Go here and click The Socialist Party of Great Britain and see where it takes you:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3gg454qw15o.amp
A member has complained but the complaints procedure is so convoluted that an answer is unlikely before the date of the election.
We are contacting them officially as a party demanding an urgent correction.
The link should take you to:
There was an article in last Friday’s Times headlined “Reeves’s plan for growth is built on private cash”. Precisely. The author thought this was a brilliant idea but it could prove to be why the plan will fail — as private capitalists will only put up the cash if they judge there’s a profit in it for them. If not, they won’t.
The incoming Labour government may be able to get things started by offering them a bribe in the form of contracts and subsidies. But this planned crony capitalism won’t be sustainable unless profits are generated at some point.
Here behind a pay wall:
Incidentally, the title of this thread is a bit outdated with private capitalists jumping on the bandwagon in the hope of getting a contract, subsidy or knighthood.
