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Finally got my arse in gear and posted the final article in Bill Waters 1950s 'Backwaters of History' series. The last article was about the Tolpuddle Martyrs:Link: Backwaters of HistoryA very interesting series. I really wish there was something similar being serialized in the Standard today.
I'm sure it was just a silly oversight but I think omitting the individual results of the SPGB candidates in the recent General Election from the article in this month's Socialist Standard reporting on the campaign, we've left ourselves open to be accused of hiding the results from our readers.
Just a quick post to mention that I'm posting again over at the Socialist Standard Past and Present blog. I'm too lazy to post individual links, so you'll just have to click on the link: Link: Socialist Standard Past and Present Blog
Nice find. I always had a soft spot for Hayman's first band, Hefner, and their *cough* classic, 'The Day That Thatcher Dies'. Before people chime in with the view that the song was in poor taste, it dates from 2000.
I guess you could check out Edmund Wilson's To The Finland Station.There's also George Lichtheim's The Origins of Socialism.
Sadly, there's such a dearth of information about members of the SPGB – even the higher profile members – from its early years that it's always interesting to read some sort of biographical detail about them. I'm guessing from the dustjacket blurb that there's an element of Cameron drawing from his own background when writing the novel.
A couple of links for the Robert Barltrop's Monument trainspotters on the forum.In the book Barltrop mentions a couple of novels that were written by SPGB members in the 1940s. Both books were reveiwed in the Standard, and I thought they might be of interest to a couple of people here:Link: June 1950 George Camden's My Time My LifeLink: November 1944 William Cameron's The Day is ComingI've read the George Camden (Sid Rubin) novel, and it's a very fine work but it's not immediately apparent that it was written by an SPGBer.I've yet to read Cameron's novel – though I have it on the shelf – but Gilmac's review is interesting and the biographical information on Cameron which is provided on the dustjacket of the book is a wee window on who made up the membership of the Party in the inter-war years.
Some more Paul Breeze material from the Socialist Standard:Link: March 1977 A poem, 'The Breakthrough'Link: September 1977 A poem, 'Roots'Link: December 1977, How I became a Socialist
ALB wrote:Impossible1904 has very timelely just reproduced on his Socialist Standard Past and Present site an article from the August 1981 Socialist Standard on the last time people calling themselves Marxists took responsibility for trying to get capitalism out of an economic crisis: the PS/PCF coalition government that entered officein France in June 1981:http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/communists-in-government.htmlNo doubt the follow-up article, two years later in the June 1983 "France: from failure to fiasco", explaining what happened next. is being scanned as we speak.The main difference is that the Syriza government in Greece has taken power under much severe economic conditions so will have even less chance of succeeding in making capitalism bend to its political will. Sad perhaps, but that's the cruel truth.I have been known to do requests:Link: "France: from failure to fiasco"
imposs1904 wrote:Six and seven in the Backwaters of History series.Link: Socialist Standard March 1954: English Naval Mutinies 1797Link: Socialist Standard April 1954: Paris CommuneEight and nine in the Backwaters of History series:Link: Socialist Standard June 1954: Münzer and the Thuringian RevoltLink: Socialist Standard July 1954: The Knights of Labour Just two more to go in the series . . . then I can take a breather and reintroduce myself to Georges Simenon.
