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Excellent Socialist Standard article from 1979 by Steve Coleman on the history of Labour Party reformism. One to bear in mind, what with the ongoing illusions invested in Corbyn and others:Link: Labour under illusions
The Labour Party ". . . is made up in the main of religious visionaries, taxation quacks, place-hunters, wind-bags, and would-be “statesmen"Cracking Socialist Standard editorial from 1923:Link: Labour's "Revolutionary" Leaders
Special mention for the late J. Force of the SPGB Bristol Group who mentions in an obituary for another Bristol comrade that he was studying for holy orders before joining the SPGB:Link: August 1980 obituaryThat makes it 3-2. We're making a comeback!
I see the latest issue of Socialist Studies just went online in the past week:Link: Issue 99I wonder if issue 100 will be a bumper issue?
A new batch of old Socialist Standard articles, editorials and reviews on the internet for the first time. I'm too lazy to list them individually but they date from the 1977-1983 period, and number about 80 pieces in total:Link: New Socialist Standard articlesEnjoy. Feel free to pass them on and share them on other forums and via google, etc.
A new batch of old articles, editorials and reviews from the Socialist Standard that are on the internet for the first time. This collection are from1984 and 1985:LINK: Socialist Standard 1984LINK: Socialist Standard 1985Both links were lead you to a series of pieces from both years.
This has been doing the rounds on social media today:Link: New Statesman – Exclusive: John McDonnell named Lenin and Trotsky as his biggest influences in 2006
Must post a link a link to this excellent article from 1922:Link: On getting tiredEven back in 1922, people were talking and moaning about that 'final paragraph' that peppers each and every issue of the Socialist Standard. Be sure to also check out other articles by the same writer, W. T. Hopley. He really did have a nice style of writing:Link: W. T. HopleyThe link with open on 'On Getting Tired' but if you scroll down the page it will lead you to other articles by Hopley.
ALB wrote:imposs1904 wrote:Paul Mason posted this on his Facebook page about five years ago.That can't be right. More like five days? For example, his book on Postcapitalism only came out last year.
Oops, I meant to write five hours ago. Blame it on a (nearly) five year old who likes to inflict on me late nights asking about Yellow Yaks and Africa.
Paul Mason posted this on his Facebook page about five years ago. I think it's interesting because, for those of us who haven't read his latest book, it brings us up to speed with his political views and the here and now:Yesterday the British chancellor George Osborne accused me — from the front bench and under parliamentary privilege — of being a “revolutionary Marxist”. Various media have reported that I am “advising” the Labour Party. Neither of these claims is true. I have left Channel 4 News to become a freelance journalist, writing a weekly Guardian column, with a wide range of other projects at the planning stage, including a Medium blog called Mosquito Ridge. I have agreed to contribute a lecture to Labour’s The New Economics series, following prestigious names such as Joseph Stiglitz, Yanis Varoufakis, Marianna Mazzucato and Simon Wren-Lewis. I will be focusing on unconvetnional monetary policy and the democratisation of central banks. That’s all. It’s up to the Labour Party whether they listen to what I say. But it is very specifically not formal advice.As to Mr Osborne’s claim that I am “revolutionary Marxist” it is completely inaccurate. I am radical social democrat who favours the creation of a peer-to-peer sector (co-ops, open source etc) alongside the market and the state, as part of a long transition to a post-capitalist economy. There’s a comprehensive critique of Bolshevism in my latest book, Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future. In the next months I will likely be travelling to hostile environments, repressive regimes and seeking access to societies where, with one Google search, people will discover that the government of my own country considers me a “revolutionary Marxist”. I will keep you posted on the outcome of that. As for the Mao/Mickey Mouse jibe, I was tailed for hours in 2008 in Beijing by the secret police of Mr Osborne’s favourite Marxist government, after interviewing the victims of Mao’s Great Leap Forward. I am happy to state that Mao was a despot whose policies killed millions; I look forward to hearing Mr Osborne say that on his next trip to China.Mickey Mouse on the other hand is a universal 20th century icon representing the triumph of the little guy against the bully, the innocent against the corrupt, the weak against the strong. I am happy to be identified with those ideals.
Interesting series articles from the July 1973 issue of the Socialist Standard, all under the umbrella of 'Socialism Means . . . ' The front page article was reproduced in the Socialism or Your Money Back centenary book but the other six articles are on the internet for the first time:Link: Socialism Means series . . . Scroll down the page to see all seven articles.
