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Vin wrote:Has the membership ever considered setting up a 'sympathisers' group? For the want of a better word.
It sounds too much like a slippery slope to having a two-tier membership. I'm not a fan of the idea.
An SPGB comrade was kind enough to send me some scans of 1968 Socialist Standard front covers, so that's prompted a slew of 1968 Socialist Standard articles and reviews posted on the internet for the first time. Fill your boots:Link: 1968 to me means Paris, Czechoslovakia and Dunfermline winning the Scottish Cup.
Good that they are both now up from 1910. I'll look through some other old Standards to see if there are other election statements that have yet to be put on the net.
As it's election week, a new addition to the blog:Link: SPGB's 1910 General Election ManifestoOn the internet for the first time.
alanjjohnstone wrote:Too steep for me.
Anybody read Michael Young's 1958 satire, The Rise of the Meritocracy? I'm wondering if it is worth reading. This review from the Socialist Standard in 1959 piqued my interest: Link: The Rise of the Meritocracy
jpodcaster wrote:Didn't quite work for me – the idea was good but just felt a little cheesy. The Greens are normally pretty good at putting forward a positive message against the negative electioneering of the other main parties so I think they dropped the ball a bit on this one.Wondering whether Derek Wall is still a Green Party member? I remember he used to be pretty sympathetic to socialism and was always happy to debate with the SPGB.He took umbrage at the SPGB twitter account a few months back – I can't remember the particulars – so the SPGB are now on his shit list. (Pardon my french.)
". . . it is a bit haphazard since it is based on his whimsical choice of what to scan and upload."Cheeky bleeder.
Top notch article by Edgar Hardcastle from the January 1923 issue of the Socialist Standard.Link: Words and Deeds
