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Following on from the dedicated page for the Pathfinders column on the blog, I’ve also added one for the long-running Material World column:
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/p/material-world-column.html
Bookmark the page. It’s a good to have the articles side by side, and it’s a good resource for socialists.
Like the Pathfinders page, I think it should have an introductory paragraph. If anyone thinks they can provide one, please contact me offlist.
Just posted a dedicated page for the Pathfinders column on the blog. Paddy was good enough to provide the following intro for it:
Pathfinders is a column that broadly looks at aspects of science and technology in capitalism, with an eye on how they might look or be applied in a future world where money and profit are not the driving factors. Areas covered have included industry, society, health, gender, energy, electric cars, computing, climate change, space, anthropology, genetics, language, intellectual property and the scientific method.
PJShttps://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/p/pathfinders-column.html
Ralph Critchfield (‘Ivan’)
I’ve put together a page on the Socialist Standard Past and Present blog which lists all the standalone articles, reviews, short stories and regular columns that Ralph Critchfield (‘Ivan’ in the Socialist Standard) penned down the years.
It’s a partial list ‘cos not all of Ralph’s articles are online (yet) but, as it currently stands, it amounts to over 500 pieces from the 1940s up until his last article in the Standard in 2018:
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2023/11/ralph-critichfield-ivan.html
If you click on the month and year on the left hand of the page it will take you to individual articles.
Funny clip from ‘Together’, Lukas Moodysson’s 2000 film about the 1970s Swedish left. Last year he released a sequel entitled ‘Together 99’ set in . . . checks notes . . . 1999. I’ve yet to see it.
“I think you’ve just outed yourself as someone who looks up ‘SPGB’ on YouTube.”
So you don’t think I spend my time looking up K-pop? Surely that’s presuming
So the kids tell me that K-Pop is the most popular music genre in the world today and, yet, here’s a K-Pop *cough* star who decides to call himself ‘SPGB’ and ends up with only 53 subscribers for his YouTube channel, and a video with only 1.9 thousand views despite the fact that it’s been up for 4 years . . . 4 BASTARD YEARS.
The jokes write themselves.
One for the Marxologists on the forum. Just scanned in. A political quiz from the January 1983 Socialist Standard.
Test your theoretical wits against those who have the Marxist Internet Archive homepage as their screensaver:
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2019/11/qu.html
A hundred years ago today – I’m posting Stateside, so it’s still January 22nd at my end – the first (minority) Labour Government, led by Ramsay MacDonald, took office.
At the following link is a series of links to Socialist Standard articles from that period covering the 1923 General Election and the duration of that short lived Labour Government:
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2024/01/a-false-dawn.html
Interesting to see that one of the articles in the supplement is by Lindsay German. That wouldn’t have happened back in the day.
The Standard missed a trick not reposting this front page article from the March 1924 Socialist Standard in this month’s Standard . . . . or maybe they’re just saving it for the March 2024 issue?
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2019/05/the-passing-of-lenin-1924.html
This post of his from 2021 includes – amongst other things – his 1992 New Statesman article on Harry Young:
https://www.andrewwhitehead.net/blog/the-spgb-and-the-standard-of-socialism
Just stumbled across this recent post on the Party and its Head Office whilst I was looking for a picture of John Burns from the 1880s (christ sake, the internet is wasted on me):
https://www.andrewwhitehead.net/blog/the-clapham-party
As I mentioned in this blog post
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-clapham-commoners.html
Andrew has known about us for many years – and written about us previously – so though I don’t usually subscribe to the notion that ‘all publicity is good publicity’ in relation to the Party, I don’t think we should take too much umbrage at the brickbats he’s thrown our way in the piece. They’re gentle enough and not all of them hit their target.
I laughed.
Keir Starmer's biography by Tom Baldwin is due out on 15th February, taken from over 100 hours of interviews with Sir Keir
Here's some actual footage of the William Collins editor reviewing the final draft: pic.twitter.com/qTfviN1A9Y— troovus (@troovus) January 6, 2024
