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  • in reply to: Book Recommendation? #174355
    imposs1904
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    The Cliff/Gluckstein book is available online:

    Link: The Labour Party: A Marxist History

    in reply to: Book Recommendation? #174236
    imposs1904
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    More mentions of Ensor in the Socialist Standard at the following link:

    Link: R. K. C. Ensor

    It includes a review of the Ensor book mentioned above.

    With regards to the original request for books on ‘Socialism’ in Britain from 1890-1920, a contemporary account would be Max Beer’s A History of British Socialism. Both volumes are available on the Archive.org website:

    Link: Volume One

    Link: Volume Two

    in reply to: Socialist Standard Past & Present Blog #171816
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    For those interested in that sort of thing, just a heads up that the entire issue of the August 1987 Socialist Standard is now online:

    Link: August 1987 Socialist Standard

    Content includes:

    – Interview and debate with Friends of the Earth’s Jonathon Porritt

    – The Poll Tax

    – One Green World

    – Letter on the SPGB and class consciousness

    – Capitalism and the Divorce Laws

    – A Workers’ Guide to the Soap Operas

    – The obsession about Ireland

    – Growing up poor

    – Book Review on Cuba

    – Film Reviews of Prick Up Your Ears and Working Girls

    I’m sure there’s something there for everyone.

    in reply to: Socialist Standard Past & Present Blog #170508
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    A cross-post from SPOPEN.

    For those interested in that sort of thing, just a heads up that the entire issue of the January 1969 Socialist Standard is now online:

    Link: January 1969 Socialist Standard

    Content includes:

    – Rosa Luxemburg and the Collapse of Capitalism

    – Irish Civil Rights Movement and the Troubles

    – The Computer, Karl Marx and the Battery Hens

    – Student unrest

    – Socialism, Atheism or Religion?

    – Book Reviews on Paris ’68, Harold Wilson and French Marxism

    in reply to: Status of World Socialist Party (US) #170507
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    Correspondence sent to that email address will be read and responded to. The WSPUS as an organisation is not currently active but there is active WSPUS members.

    Hope that is of some help.

    in reply to: May Day 1894 #161953
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    It may not be everyone’s cup of tea but I also like this song by Darren Hayman when he was in Hefner:

    The Day That Thatcher Dies

    in reply to: Poppy Cock #157777
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    Good article by ‘Ivan’ on Remembrance Day that dates from 1973:

    Day of Remembrance For What? (1973)

    in reply to: Socialist Standard Past & Present Blog #151740
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    All the links missing. Brilliant.

    in reply to: New SPGB website?? #151719
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    Sorry, but I hope this is a “work in progress” because as it currently stands the website’s an embarrassment. It’s arguably one of the worst websites I’ve seen in years. YEARS.

    If anyone thinks I’m out of order for my comment, please take into account that I spent hundreds of hours keeping the Socialist Standard Past and Present blog updated whilst the Party website was down. I am incredibly frustrated by this.

    in reply to: A David comes to Judgment #133066
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    Arthurton was a member of the SPGB from 1908 to 1940.

    in reply to: peterloo #132847
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    Upcoming film by Mike Leigh.

    in reply to: ‘Happy Birthday, Karl Marx’ (Leeds – 1pm) #132828
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    Major McPharter wrote:
    Any Tudor crisps and a Pint of vaux.

    'Tudor crisps"? Someone is showing their age . . . and their fine taste in crisps.

    in reply to: Bill Boaks #132772
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    Scottish Slang

    in reply to: Debs Movie #132749
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    Didn't Bernie Sanders make a 30-minute documentary about Debs in the late 70s/early 80s? Maybe that's online somewhere.

    in reply to: Archie MacPherson #132673
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    alanjjohnstone wrote:
    Interesting…This be in the 1940s then, maybe early 1950s, who would the main speakers be? 

    I'm guessing it would have been the likes of John Higgins, Joe Richmond, Alex Shaw, Tony Mulheron and a few others. Dick Donnelly didn't join the SPGB until the late 50s, and Vic Vanni joined the SPGB in Glasgow in the early 60s.

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