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ALB wrote:
“Don’t expect him to say anything much socialist as he was one of the few party members who joined up to fight in that imperialist war. As he joined the RAF he was a volunteer not a conscript.”I was always under the impression that he joined the SPGB after the war, so it wasn’t a case of him resigning from the SPGB to enlist.
However, it should be stated that he was already aware of the SPGB as a kid, so it’s not like he didn’t know the Party’s position on war before enlisting.
For more background on Barltrop first coming into contact with the SPGB, see this excerpt from The Monument:
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2015/02/hard-times.html
Matt,
I think you should remove the traditional dress picture in the link.
1) I think the pic is irrelevant. Why not replace it with the actual picture of Suhuyini? I know his picture is not included in the hard copy of the Standard but that was a mistake in my opinion. It should be corrected in the online version.
2) Also, maybe it’s just a problem with chrome, but that picture totally messes up with the formatting of the article.
There was an Independent Socialist Party in the 1930s. It was a split from the Independent Labour Party.
Nice spot.
My guess is that his contributions will be based on the trilogy of short books that Barltrop wrote which were published by (I think) Waltham Forest Libraries back in the 80s.
If you’re wondering, this is the Socialist Standard that Ron Melia had on the sofa next to him. It’s the June 1962 issue. You can read it in its entirety here.
Just stumbled across this wee 13 minute documentary on YouTube which features Ron Melia (stage name Ronnie Ross), which dates from 1963/4. If you blink you’ll miss it, but I spotted a Socialist Standard on his sofa at the 1 minute mark.
You wrote and I listened.
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.
