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Shocking that no one has mentioned that there was a late SPGBer who had a brief cameo in ‘Pennies From Heaven’.
“I don’t know if this is a coincidence or whether this blogger has been following this thread but here’s what he’s just put up from 25 years ago.”
A coincidence. I just wanted to listen to some music from 1995 . . . and very good it was too.
The music/scanning angle is a bit of a bugger when I’m scanning in stuff from 1919, though.
It’s been a while.
Hello all,
Just a bit of fun.
At the time of writing, listed below are the most popular Socialist Standard articles on the blog from a particular year. It stands to reason that the longer an article or review has been on the blog, the more ‘hits’ it has, but that is not always the case. Some articles of a more theoretical bent have received successive waves of hits years after they were originally posted on the blog. Hopefully that’s food for thought for current writers and editors of the Standard. (Yes, I know I’m contradicting myself a bit here.)
To access the articles, just click on the individual years:
http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2020/05/lazy-sunday-afternoon.html
That article missed a trick not including the Party’s photograph from its first Annual Conference in 1905, which was taken at the Communist Club.
What about an online Summer School for 2020?
I make no claims to knowing the ins and outs of what it would take to do this tech wise, but maybe some of the speakers who were pencilled in speak at this year’s Summer School could deliver their talks online, and the videos could be uploaded to YouTube.
What’s the feasibility of live streaming such talks, etc to provide more interaction?
PS – Before anyone pipes up with the reply of ‘Well, what are you going to do about it?’
- I’m not tech savvy enough to undertake such a task. I’m just floating the idea for feedback. I’m presuming many of the speakers will already have their talks in place.
- I hope forum readers will appreciate that I’m already doing my ’10 minutes for socialism’ propaganda online, so it’s not a case of me wanting to dump work on the shoulders of other comrades.
Welcome to the wonderful world of the WSM, Jack. (What tongue? What cheek?)
If you have a penchant for old stuff, be sure to check out my Socialist Standard archive side project:
Socialist Standard Past & Present blog
It’s updated pretty much every day . . . if I’m not playing darts.
Be sure to check out my additional comments. I have more useless and obscure information about the SPGB than you can shake a stick at.
all the best
The comments section of that YouTube video makes me despair for humanity. Grim is a mild description.
Cross-posted from the Socialist Standard Past and Present blog:
First post of 2020 on the blog should be a brief look back at 2019 on the blog.
The following are the twenty most popular posts on the blog in the previous 12 months. Of course there’s a couple of anomalies in the mix that I shouldn’t have to point out to the reader but I do think it’s interesting that, overall, the most popular posts in the past year are articles that deal with matters relating to history and/or socialist theory.
It could be argued that those are the type of articles that I am more inclined to push on various social media sites, etc, and there is some truth in that, but people still have to click on those links at the other end so maybe, just maybe, in these uncertain times it’s the sort of material that people want to read. Writers and Editors for the Socialist Standard, please take note.
A special note on the IWW article. That particular piece’s place on the blog dates from a time when I was a bit more eclectic in my choices of what I posted on the blog. (Go back to 2006/07 on the blog, and you’ll see what I mean.) That an article on the meaning of the term ‘Abolition of the Wages System’ posted 13 years ago was still gets multiple hits in 2019 is heartening.
- The Destruction of Nature: by Anton Pannekoek (2019)
- A Commentary on the Communist Manifesto (1930)
- Who The Hell Was Karl Marx? (1998)
- What Does The IWW mean by “Abolition of the Wage System”?
- Lenin . . . Reviewed (1976)
- Djanogly – One Of The Family (2011)
- MMT: New Theory, Old Illusion (2017)
- Karl Marx and the abolition of money (1980)
- 50 Years Ago: Beeching’s Cuts (2012)
- Socialism and Calculation (1987)
- Will Robots Cause Capitalism to Collapse? (2013)
- To have and to hold (1985)
- Friedman, Keynes and Marx (1978)
- 150 Years of The Communist Manifesto (1998)
- Opt For Socialism (1969)
- Trump and anti-socialism (2019)
- The Eileen Critchley Show (1991)
- Under Pressure (2019)
- Socialism v. Imperialism. (1923)
- The Barbary Coast (1943)
Last one for the year . . . and I need a break from the kids.
Just a wee update about the blog. The following is a list of the newly completed Socialist Standards on the blog . . . since the last post on the thread on a similar theme. (To clarify for the hard of hearing: the Socialist Standards listed below are now on the blog in their entirety):
December 1945
January 1947
February 1947December 1960
December 1964
December 1965
January 1966
June 1966
July 1966
November 1967December 1981
December 1983
February 1984
November 1985December 1990
May 1992
October 1992
January 1994
March 1994
December 1994
December 1996
January 1997
February 1997
May 1997
November 1997
December 1997I wouldn’t call him a Stalinist but my own personal opinion is that Galloway was always a bit of a fellow traveller, but that mindset always existed in the Labour Party. Think of the likes of Scargill, Joan Maynard and people like that.
Here you go. Galloway’s launched a new political party with some unsavory political characters:
