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Is this because of their views or because they have had payments in from Russia? The banks are shit-scared of being fined for breaking sanctions. Even if the UK authorities let them get away with it the US authorities might not.
Let’s see if Laurence Fox has his closed. In any event, his party can’t accept donations from abroad (nor can we).
That’s not the impression George Orwell had of the ILP of which he was a member for a while. This is what he writes of them in The Road to Wigan Pier:
“One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ‘Socialism’ and ‘Communism’ draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist, and feminist in England.
One day this summer I was riding through Letchworth when the bus stopped and two dreadful-looking old men got on to it. They were both about sixty, both very short, pink, and chubby, and both hatless. One of them was obscenely bald, the other had long grey hair bobbed in the Lloyd George style. They were dressed in pistachio-coloured shirts and khaki shorts into which their huge bottoms were crammed so tightly that you could study every dimple. Their appearance created a mild stir of horror on top of the bus.
The man next to me, a commercial traveller I should say, glanced at me, at them, and back again at me, and murmured ‘Socialists’, as who should say, ‘Red Indians’. He was probably right–the I.L.P. were holding their summer school at Letchworth.”Your old dad must have been the odd one out if he didn’t wear sandals.
So Engels made crude jokes about male homosexuality that might have gone down well in the gentleman’s club he frequented when he worked in Manchester and were probably echoed in working men’s clubs up and down the country.
So what? Does that invalidate his writings on politics, economics and history? At the time — and for many decades after — most people were against it. I am sure Darwin would have been and I dare say Einstein too. Are their scientific findings to be rejected too? It’s a classic ad hominem argument.
Even as late as 1953 C. L. R. James (who I think was associated with News and Letters) in his book on the author of Moby Dick Herman Melville, Mariners, Renegades and Castaways, saw homosexuality as a vice of a degenerate ruling class.
Counterfire is a breakaway Trotskyist group from the SWP. If he’s one of them I don’t suppose he’d be interested in us or, for that matter, us in him.
Even so it can’t be a bad thing that sone Trotskyist groups are not taking sides. Trotskyy was of course a Ukrainian by today’s standards. Not that Ukrainian nationalists have claimed him as one of theirs. They prefer Stepan Bandera.
I am afraid I wasn’t allowed to open the link to the article. Maybe because it is a Russian registered site and, here in the “West, many such sites are blocked in case they contain “disinformation”. The way to deal with “disinformation” is to expose it as such not to ban it. But the West wants a monopoly to propagate its own “disinformation”.
What we said about this in 1911.
Here’s what that unsafe site says about the book.
A novel about the true history of Christianity
978-620-0-48933-3
The Yellow Cow is a tragic-comic humanist novel about a young man from Ireland (Eire) named Llywelyn O’Dweyer, whose purpose in life is to acquire wisdom. Living in the early years of Christianity, he can see that this religion is just a copy of many others, all much older. He knows that Christ never existed and that his story is mostly copied from the biography of the god Mithras. Llywelyn decides to discover the true history of Christianity, but he has to abandon his purpose of finding out who founded Christianity, and where it happened because Christians are destroying the entire Greco-Roman culture and murdering anyone who dares to denounce their evil plan. When Llywelyn was about to give up his quest, he had a series of dreams that showed him the answers to all his questions. The young man organizes these dreams into four stories, each with a female protagonist, including Hypatia of Alexandria, the smartest woman of classic times. The last story sheds light on Llywelyn O’Dweyer’s questions, and the reader will be in for a surprise at what it says about who founded Christianity, why and where this religion came into being.
Authors
Paul Costa Gavin
Book language
English
Published on
2023-06-13
Publishing house
JustFiction Edition
Number of pages
316
Price (EUR )
€66.90This book looks amusing but I doubt if anyone on benefits will be able to afford a copy:
https://www.morebooks.shop/shop-ui/shop/book-launch-offer/4866fe693aa2aaa9dddaa58d388c83e5a43d97c3
Another document for the dossier being built up against Greta Thunberg for taking sides in a war:
Zelenskyy meets Greta Thunberg in Kyiv to address the war’s effect on ecology
She is now completely discredited and has turned into a common or garden politician.
William Morris wrote somewhere that adulteration would be inconceivable in socialism as a society where production was directly for people to use, and asked why on Earth in such a society would substandard stuff be produced?
This also means that there would be no need for Trading Standards officers either.
Not content with turning against the Russian-speaking minority, the Ukrainian nationalists now want to deal with the Hungarian-speaking minority. And we’re supposed to support the Ukraine regime to uphold “democratic values”.
I have now read that article on General Caffarelli and while he is reported as saying “I contend that the laws that sanction property sanction a usurpation, a theft”. But he then went on to say that, as it would be inconvenient to abolish them, the best that could be done would be to modify them to make them less unfair. So Napoleon probably didn’t hear the case for common ownership, after all, at least not from Caffarelli.
It was, actually. Having said that, those who vote for the raving loony monsters are making a point — a protest against conventional politics and its irrelevance to the life of ordinary people, taking the piss out of its empty election promises by making absurd ones. It’s an alternative to abstention and going fishing on election day. Understandable if not particularly constructive.
There are 17 candidates including Piers Corbyn and Laurence Fox not to mention Count Binface and the Monster Raving Loony Party. It’s a farce. That’s why we stopped contesting by-elections some years ago now. But they are still occasions when people think and talk about politics more than usual.
I don’t think this analysis by this Trotsky group stands up. I don’t think that Prigozhin was attempting to seize power or appealing to some “pro-NATO faction within the Russian ruling class”. (Who are they anyway? – I can’t see any section of the Russian ruling class being “pro-NATO” any more than there being a pro-Russia section of the US ruling class. Some might have thought the invasion of Ukraine unwise or a mistake and wanted to deal with the NATO threat to their state in a different way, but that’s not the sane thing.)
It seems more like a demonstration to win some concessions for his business (after all, he runs a profit-seeking company). If they had wanted to, those in control of the Russian state could easily have stopped a few tanks at any point on their way to Moscow. I would have thought, from their point of view, they handled it quite well, dealing with it without needing to use violence.
It was dramatic stuff in the short time it lasted but this “Prigozhin affair” risks being blown up out of all proportion like the 6 January riot in Washington in 2021. I can’t see it having any effect on the course of the war.
