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A good half-jokey piece from 1997:Link: The Right to Eat LandownersA reworking of the text of this article was used to leaflet a Countryside Alliance March a few years later. Talk about being a wannabe Daniel in a very real Lion's Den!
This has been on the cards since Corbyn was elected leader. I'm surprised it's taken them this long to even consider it.
Interesting editorial from the October 1914 issue of the Socialist Standard. I'm surprised it wasn't on the net before now:http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-inkslinger-brigade-1914.html
Short review of a biography of Kautsky that appeared in the June 1988 issue of the Socialist Standard:http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2015/11/marxist-populariser-1988.html
Here's the links to an interesting three part series of articles by John Crump from the Socialist Standard in 1968, which, amongst other issues and individuals from that time, touches upon the SPGB's attitide towards Kautsky:http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2014/04/members-in-great-war.htmlhttp://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-socialist-party-and-second_10.htmlhttp://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-socialist-party-and-second_11.htmlAnd here's an interesting article by Harry Waite from the 1939, which is an appraisal of Kautsky's political life, following his death the previous year:http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2014/09/kautskys-work-for-socialism.html
Never saw it at the time. I clip myself around the head later on.Btw, ALB forwarded to the blog an interesing article from the October 1905 on the impossiblist movement in one corner of mainland Europe:http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/the-socialist-movement-in-bulgaria-1905.html
A long historical by Peter E. Newell on Eleanor Marx and the Early Socialist Movement:http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2015/11/tussy-eleanor-marx-and-early-socialist.htmlHat tip to Alan J. for originally putting this article on the net. Clip around the ear for Alan J. for not bringing it to a wider audience.
Just a wee curio from the October 1943 issue of The Western Socialist:http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2015/10/glasgow-street-scene-1943.html
That was a lazy piece of journalism in the Guardian. The version I read – it might have since been corrected – suggested that the AWL had dissolved itself as an organisation. Absolute nonsense. They'd simply deregistered as a political party with the Electoral Commission. In reality, the AWL have always had a smattering of supporters/members in and around the Labour Party.
From the January 1955 issue of the Socialist Standard, a review of the first tv adapatation of George Orwell's 1984:http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2015/10/1984unthinkable.htmlPeter Cushing as Winston Smith!
On the Eugene Debs connection, a couple years ago I visited the Eugene Debs museum in Terre Haute, Indiana – it is in fact Debs' own house that has been turned into a museum dedicated to him – and amongst Debs's personal collection of pamphlets on display under glass cases was a pamphet by Con Lehane. For SPGB anoraks, Lehane was a founder member of the SPGB, and the Party's first general secretary. I can't remember the title of Lehane's pamphlet but it was one published after he left the SPGB, and I'm sure it was on the subject of Ireland.
Have the issues already been forwarded onto this site?https://bataillesocialiste.wordpress.com/
Vin,I use this twitter account for posting links from the page:https://twitter.com/imposs1916It happens to be an old account that I had from years ago, which I never used, but simply reactivated once I started putting more time into the Socialist Standard Past and Present blog.It's in no way an 'official' page for the journal or the Party. I'll leave that wee endeavour for either the media department or the officialspgb twitter account.
