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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
Just a bit of fun.
The 20 most viewed posts on the blog from 2023. Scroll past my waffle to the find the list – with added links:
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2024/01/dropped-ball.html
Just scanned in.
A cosy Christmas short story by Steve Coleman that first appeared in the December 1995 issue of the Socialist Standard:
The ghost of Christmas yet to come (1995)
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2020/02/blog-post.html
Interesting that as well as changing the name of the organisation, they are also changing the name of their journal from ‘Socialist Appeal’ to ‘The Communist’.
I guess changing the name of their organisation has forced their hand in having to also change the name of the journal but it is interesting that their choice of title is a call back to the CPGB’s original journal of the same name which existed from 1920-1923. (Succeeded by Workers’ Weekly.)
Of course, Trotsky was still front and centre in the Third International during that period, so it’s not that weird that Socialist Appeal see some sort of lineage between the early CPGB and their own tradition.
What piece are they referring to?
This one:
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-economic-is-impersonal-2023.html
How many music threads are there on here now?
Don’t tempt me, or I’ll start a dedicated Christmas music thread. It’s that time of year.
I do like that Nick Lowe song, though.
Lizzie45 wrote:
“Post today on the SPGB’s Spopen forum by an ex-Executive Committee member.”
LOL.
I’ll give you this. You are a shit stirrer, par excellence. 10/10.
Could you tell those of us who can’t be bothered to go through the rigmarole of accessing age restricted stuff what the classic is? Is there not another version of whatever it is available elsewhere?
I’d post the lyrics but the mod would zap them down.
I’m guessing (now) that every version of this song on YouTube will be age restricted. In the famous words of Johnny Rotten on the Bill Grundy Show, ‘Rude words . . . rude words.’
“It’s important to be accurate and to not try to re-write history making everything a reference to our current favourite views.”
I didn’t read it as an attempt to rewrite history. I just put it down to a genuine mistake, and because of the nature of the piece – a reprint of correspondence – it couldn’t be rewritten after the fact.
Maybe the editorial committee could have put a note after the piece pointing out the mistake.
