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ParticipantThe moderators can remove this post from the thread if they don’t think it’s in the right place, but I just scanned in an interesting article from the June 1987 Socialist Standard which provides an overview of what was going on in Middle East – and its attendant intra-capitalist rivalry – during that period:
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2024/06/islam-sigh-of-oppressed-1987.html
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ParticipantFaiza Shaheen is standing as an independent in Chingford & Woodford Green:
https://x.com/faizashaheen/status/1798369070657782177
I guess that’ll increase the chance of Iain Duncan Smith retaining his seat. Maybe, if re-elected, he’ll decide to have a second go at being leader of a rump Tory Party.
I think I might need more popcorn.
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Participant“Those who are experienced in such matters tell us that all brands of cornflakes taste the same. It has also been said that they all conform to a standard of nutrition which results in the package having more food value than the flakes. It is rather like this in the political field. The parties which are likely to get into power in this election all offer the same low level of social nutrition and politically they all have the same flavour. Their only difference is in their presentation – their packaging – and this is where they are in competition, their programmes and their leaders dressed, decorated, obscured so as to bear little relation to their true character.”
Lovely piece of writing from ‘Ivan’ (Ralph Critchfield) from the June 1987 Socialist Standard, when covering that British General Election. Nothing’s really changed.
Full article here:
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2024/06/snap-crackle-pop-1987.htmlimposs1904
ParticipantFaiza Shaheen, who was the Labour PPC for Chingford & Woodford Green before she was politically ambushed by the Labour leadership for social media activity, has resigned from the Labour Party. No news yet if she’s standing as an independent:
https://x.com/faizashaheen/status/1797974259643588845
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ParticipantI thought this was interesting clip of Michael Crick talking about the vindictiveness of the Labour Right over the selection of parliamentary candidates. No doubt this past week of Starmer own goals will be (temporarily) forgotten come July 5th but I think it does point to a deeper poison within the current Labour leadership. This kind of political-gangsterism will be par for the course for the Labour Government, and once they run out of Labour Lefts to punch down on, they’ll quickly turn on each other.
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ParticipantJust stumbled across this song the other day. Beautiful song:
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ParticipantDuring the discussion period of Keith Scholey’s talk on the SPGB and the Spanish Civil War last Friday, I mentioned an article from 1937 on the conflict which appeared in the New York journal, The International Review. The people involved with the IR were the same people who, amongst other things, first translated Martov’s The State and the Socialist Revolution into English and published the pamphlet Bolshevism by Rudolf Sprenger.
The article is well worth a read if you’re interested in the period and the complexities of the situation on the ground. Though there is definitely an overlap of sorts with our position in places in the article, it is the case that ‘Roberto’ was probably writing from a Council Communist position:
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2006/09/spain-turns.html
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ParticipantAll Good Men by Trevor Griffiths from 1974.
By all accounts, Griffiths was heavily influenced by Ralph Miliband’s Parliamentary Socialism:
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ParticipantThat’s Bridget from Grange Hill in the thumbnail!!!
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ParticipantThey shouldn’t have sacked Steve Bell.
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ParticipantA wee bit of WSM history from 1973.
‘Socialist jailed in Sweden – “Times” uninterested’ (1973)
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2015/01/socialist-jailed-in-sweden-times.html
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ParticipantExcellent series.
Also check out Griffiths’ ‘All Good Men’, a standalone Play For Today which is on YouTube, which touches upon similar themes relating to the Labour Party but is more about historical betrayal.
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ParticipantThe artists formerly known as Socialist Appeal – and now rebranded, relaunched and regurgitated as the Revolutionary Communist Party – have also replied to Mr Gove:
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ParticipantThe former Millies response to Gove:
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ParticipantIt’s Tweedledee’s turn.
Rinse and repeat.
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