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The leaflets for distribution outside the two constituencies we are contesting arrived today. 3000 or so were sent on to branches and individuals who pre-ordered. Some 400 were distributed in Battersea (which we contested in 2017). A Labour poster was spotted. These are no longer just in red but now incorporate in one corner the colours of the Union Jack, confirming that party’s even further degeneration.
Everyone i’ve given the Standard to has rejected our message.
That could have something to do with your overall approach. If you say to someone “switch off your smartphone, o dumbed down one, brush up your Latin, read this if you can understand it, it will raise your cultural level”, it is not surprising you get a negative reaction.
Voters in Clapham and Brixton Hill have been invited to contact our candidate through this:
https://voteclimate.uk/constituencies/clapham-and-brixton-hill/ppcs/e14001175-billmartin
A number have done so and are being sent this link:
https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/climatechange/keypoints#10
You mean that the people you have talked to about socialism have expressed a “dread” of it? I don’t believe you.
… turn away in dread …
That’s a rather odd way of putting it as it implies that they know that there is an alternative to capitalism but are afraid to do anything about it. But most of them probably don’t know there is an alternative. It’s not a question of not wanting to hear about it but of not even having heard about it.
The ostrich analogy is not entirely inapt as they do stick their heads in the sand but not for the reason supposed. Similarly people are not acting to get rid of capitalism but not for the reason you suppose.
The 47,700 “election communication” from our candidate in Clapham and Brixton Hill for free distribution by Royal Mail were delivered this morning to their Hounslow centre. They will be sent out tomorrow to the various distribution offices covering the constituency and will presumably be dropping through letter boxes soon after.
This was interesting:
“Mr Newman said those choosing to selectively avoid the news also often do so because they feel “powerless”.
“These are people who feel they have no agency over massive things that are happening in the world,” he said.”I don’t think this means that people are behaving like ostriches. They are accepting the reality that there are “powerless” and just getting on with their lives. We shouldn’t suggest that they are simply being stupid.
One of the things that happens when you contest a general election is that the candidate gets inundated with emails from pressure groups and single-issue campaigners with requests to say where you stand on a particular issue. Our candidate in Clapham and Brixton Hill has had emails asking, among other things, to support the decriminalisation of sex work and to take action against the cost-of-living crisis.
They are being sent the following standard reply:
“The Socialist Party is standing a candidate in this election solely on the basis of creating a world of common and democratic ownership of the productive wealth of society, so that we will no longer need buying and selling and will instead produce to meet the needs of all members of society.
We are not standing to administer or govern in a capitalist society.
If elected, and we do not have the majority we need to make this fundamental transformation of society, our candidate will vote on issues as agreed by the members of our party based upon the interests of the working class under capitalism.”An interview with Jeremy Corbyn, billed as “a socialist MP”:
https://jacobin.com/2024/06/jeremy-corbyn-independent-parliament-election
There’s some revealing stuff here about past negotiations to end the war:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/06/15/world/europe/ukraine-russia-ceasefire-deal.html
Kent and Sussex branch report:
“Our election address is due to go to royal mail on Monday for 47,200 letter boxes and the first of 6000 copies of the “Let’s end” flyer have started being delivered in our 2 target wards. In between rain storms we plan to get as many out as possible before postal voting starts.”
Here’s the flyer they refer to:
https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/FolkestoneGE2024-LEA2-V1.pdf
More on our independent reformist opponent in Clapham and Brixton Hill:
https://www.voteforjonkeyinclaphamandbrixtonhill.co.uk/
He’s just offering more of the same, not even to fix potholes in SW4.
It’s up here too now:
The Russian army may be capturing Gulyapole soon and its museum to Nestor Makhno. That will send these “anarchists” into a real spin.
