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  • in reply to: Jeremy Corbyn to be elected Labour Leader? #112826
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    Tonight, Panorama are dedicating their show to Corbyn's revolution – for want of a better term.8.30pmhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06bg6ty

    in reply to: Jeremy Corbyn to be elected Labour Leader? #112825
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    He blocked me on twitter after I called him out for being such an abusive prat.  eta: The above is in reference to Derek Wall on twitter.

    in reply to: “Like” Button facility #114028
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    If it's doable I think it would be a  worthwhile addition to the forum.

    in reply to: London Anarchist Bookfair 2015, 24 October #114022
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    Or as Ian Bone once termed it, 'Anarcho-Brigadoon'.

    in reply to: Migrants are our fellow workers #113947
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    in reply to: Jeremy Corbyn to be elected Labour Leader? #112754
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    This invective directed against us is solely as a consequence of the twitter account.Derek Wall is a bloke who has spoken at a past SPGB Summer School, who has debated with us and, whilst disagreeing with our politics, understands our core politics and why it is we oppose the left-wing of capitalism and all its manifestations.And yet, despite all that, we've coloured ourselves in such a fashion on twitter that he now thinks of us as the caricature spgb that we've always hated being portrayed as. People should chew that one over.Just because we're making 'noise' on twitter it doesn't by default make it a good thing.

    in reply to: Jeremy Corbyn to be elected Labour Leader? #112752
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    Vin wrote:
    I have to jump to the defence of @officialSPGB. Those involved are doing a good job and their technique has led to a 100% increase in followers over four months. Tho' we will have to wait to see the reaction to the said tweetPublicity is publicity and the twitter account is being noticed. Onward and upwards

    Sorry, I think 'their' technique (one bloke) is counterproductive.Screen grab doesn't work, so here's th wording of the tweet from Derek Wall:"they are such hateful tossers, to my undying regret I once sent them a donation"I think when you piss off someone like Derek Wall, you know you're doing it the wrong way. I don't care if there is an increase in followers if we go about it in this way. At times it reads like an SPGB Parody twitter account.

    in reply to: Jeremy Corbyn to be elected Labour Leader? #112749
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    gnome wrote:
    Young Master Smeet wrote:
    https://twitter.com/reddeathy/status/639346991873531904I'm glad to see my Harold Wilson crack caught their eye.  Personally I think we don't need to disavow it, it's a good article, we can safelyy ignore the scurrilous suggestion about our finances, since they've already included our rebuttal.

    Bill's right.  And whoever was responsible for the meme should be congratulated, not called an idiot.   Thank goodness we still have members prepared to nail the party's colours to the mast. 

     not a fan of the @officialSPGB in the bottom left hand corner. With regard to the actual Private Eye dig, from ALB original post I was expecting some far worse.

    in reply to: Jeremy Corbyn to be elected Labour Leader? #112744
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    ALB wrote:
    I have to confess that Vin, SP and JDW have been proved right. Some idiot sent this from our twitter account on 16 August:https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CMh5m2wWgAAxURh.jpgIt's been picked up by Private Eye who have replied in kind on p. 9 of this fortnight's issue.The EC needs to disavow it on Saturday but the damage has been done.

     Any chance of doing a screen grab of the Private Eye response? I'm not a fan of the marmite image – but, then, I love marmite – but I don't think it's as damaging as you think. Silly, yes . . . but then I haven't seen what's in Private Eye.The thing that does strike me about the official spgb twitter account is that I think it can to be too 'full-on' at times, and I think that can be counter-productive. Comrades with long memories will remember the comrade who decided to spam numerous messageboards about 15 years ago. That really pissed a lot of people off at the time, and though I don't think the twitter account is as bad, it can sometimes go down that road.If we don't want to permanently alienate a lot of people that we should be engaging with, then I think a more nuanced approach is needed.

    in reply to: Socialist Standard Past & Present Blog #98850
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    imposs1904 wrote:
    A Gilmac article from 1954. One for the SPGB anoraks, 'Some notes on party history':http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2015/08/some-notes-on-party-history-1954.html

    Gilmac's follow up to this article. This one's primarily about the early days of the Socialist Standard:http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2015/08/some-notes-on-party-history-1954.html

    in reply to: Jeremy Corbyn to be elected Labour Leader? #112738
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    Interesting Private Eye article currently doing the rounds on social media about how the media's deliberately distorting Corbyn's political positions;

    in reply to: Socialism or your Money Back on eBay #113917
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    They couldn't find a colour picture of the book front cover on the net?

    in reply to: Jeremy Corbyn to be elected Labour Leader? #112720
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    I've already made my view known on this. We are shooting ourselves in the foot with the front cover, the memes and some of the contributions on twitter but, at the same time, we have to accentuate the positive. The pieces on Corbyn in last month's Standard were measured and well argued. We were making a case against Corbyn and the phenemenon surrounding his campaign without it appearing overly vinegary or snide. More of this please.I think there are times when a politician's personal ego is so wrapped up in his or her political career – think of Galloway, Sheridan, Abbott and Scargill on the left wing of capitalism for past examples – that is then permissable to take the piss out of the politico as well as their promises but, at the time of writing, I don't think this applies to Corbyn. Part of his 'personal' appeal to his audience has been his lack of pizzaz and the obvious fact that his personality hasn't been shaped by a focus group. Maybe he will change overnight if and when he wins the leadership, and turn into another shiny car salesman masquerading as a politician, but I wouldn't hold my breath. We have to accept that he has tapped into a political movement that no one – NO ONE – saw coming. Not the media. Not the Parliamentary Labour Party. And certainly not the left-wing of capitalism.That is what we have to address, and we have to present our legitimate and consistent opposition to the politics of the left-wing  in such a way that we can engage with that section of the working class who kicking against austerity but are still, sadly, locked into old school labourism.

    in reply to: Spain 1937 – Spain Turns #91323
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    ALB wrote:
    As DJP explained in his talk at Summer School, that is not begging the question:http://begthequestion.info/I agree, though, that like everything else language changes and that this is an example of a change happening.

    Have I walked into something? I'm just here to get my coat.

    in reply to: Spain 1937 – Spain Turns #91321
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    ALB wrote:
    The March 1934 edition of the Socialist Standard has the following correction on p, 103:

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    Owing to a misapprehension it was incorrectly stated in the January SOCIALIST STANDARD that the writer of the article "Bolshevism, Past and Present" is a member of the Workers Socialist Party, U.S.A.

    He is mentioned on page 144 of Gary Roth's biography of Paul Mattick. He also translated Martov's The State and the Socialist Revolution into English under the pen name of "Integer" (reviewed here and sold by the Party). But of course you knew that.

    That makes sense. I remember thinking, when I was transcribing the article, 'Interesting review but this isn't really us.' Glad to know that my faulty political antennae stills works every once in a while.It does begs the question, though: did the editorial committee of the Standard publish the review, thinking he was a member of the WSPUS? Would they have published it otherwise?

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