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alanjjohnstone wrote:Private Eyes cartoon on the bookfairhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/107147535@N04/10576658216/sizes/h/in/photostream/
That cartoon's awful, btw.
I've not been following this thread but if members have been using the term 'banned', then Slothjabber's right, it's daft and inappropriate. I was one of the Party members in the early 2000s who, as a member of the Campaigns Dept, would apply for a Party stall at the Anarchist Bookfair and, if I remember rightly, we were always politely turned down for the obvious reasons. We didn't make a particular big deal of it then, and we shouldn't make a big deal out of it now. And I'm definitely not one of those members who see ourselves as being the Parliamentary wing of the Anarchist Movement. I shudder at the very thought.Good luck to the CWO at being the left communist wing of the Anarchist Movement. I guess I always thought it was kind of weird that both the CWO and the ICC would place so much emphasis on the British Anarchist movement, but I just put it down to the fact it was a space where they would get a hearing. (More the CWO than the ICC.) Good luck to them.
imposs1904 wrote:Whilst digging out the Harrington article I found the following old Socialist Standard articles which will be going on the Party website in the fullness of time: October 1990 Morris and Revolutionhttp://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2013/11/morris-and-revolution.htmlJune 1981 A World Without Money – 5 Questionshttp://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2013/11/a-world-without-money-5-questions.htmlDecember 1987 Not the milleniumhttp://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2013/11/not-millenium.htmlFebruary 1994 Blobby culturehttp://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2013/11/blobby-culture.htmlMarch 1994 Herlandhttp://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2013/11/herland.html cheers.The Herland article linked to above met with a bit of opposition within the SPGB and the pages of the Socialist Standard itself.The following link is to a letter – and editors reply – that appeared in the July 1994 issue of the Socialist Standard:http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2013/11/letter-herland.html
Whilst digging out the Harrington article I found the following old Socialist Standard articles which will be going on the Party website in the fullness of time: October 1990 Morris and Revolutionhttp://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2013/11/morris-and-revolution.htmlJune 1981 A World Without Money – 5 Questionshttp://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2013/11/a-world-without-money-5-questions.htmlDecember 1987 Not the milleniumhttp://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2013/11/not-millenium.htmlFebruary 1994 Blobby culturehttp://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2013/11/blobby-culture.htmlMarch 1994 Herlandhttp://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2013/11/herland.html cheers.
But it was online. MySpace let me do.I'm going through the old files and finding a few other articles that were on the myspace blog but were lost when mypace decided to delete everyone's blogs. They'll be posted on the blog, and forwarded onto the Internet Committee for inclusion in the Standard archive.I've been busy last few weeks with getting old Standard articles online. See for yourself on the blog:http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/
OK, I found the Harrington article via a zip file I downloaded from my old MySpace Socialist Standard page:http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2013/11/a-better-kind-of-capitalism.htmlI'm sure it will go on the Party website in the fullness of time.
Just spotted this on a thread on Facebook:http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2013/feb/01/colin-tipton-obituaryIt's from earlier this year, but I knew the name rang a bell.eta: Colin Tipton was the SWP's representative in the 1985 debate with the SPGB.
ALB wrote:There's a collection of footnotes on us here:http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2000s/2004/no-1198-june-2004/others-have-seen-usI don't think it includes Eric Hobsbawn describing us as "wholly unimportant conventicle" (in chapter 12 of his Labouring Men.The silly sod got the date of the Party's formation wrong, which suggests that he just cribbed his lack of knowledge about the SPGB from another CP historian.
Damn, I actually forgot that a few years ago I transcribed Steve Coleman chapter on Impossibilism that originally appeared in Crump and Rubel's Non-Market Socialism in the 19th and 20th Century:http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2009/08/impossibilism-by-stephen-coleman.htmlIt's not exactly what you're asking after but it touches upon aspects of the history of the SPGB.
I like The Monument. I wish I still had my copy.A Party member from yesteryear – Steve Coleman – wrote his PhD on the early history of the SPGB back in the 80s. There was an epub of this doing the rounds a few months back but I don't have a download link immediately to hand.
'cos I'm a lazy sod I'm just going to cut and paste the comment I made over on the SPGB group page on Facebook: I initially also bridled a bit at his mention of taxation of the rich line, but sod it, why hang the whole interview on that passage? The video's gone viral and not just because Forgetting Sarah Marshall is a half decent film. There's brilliant class anger in this interview and it's resonated with a hell of a lot of people.I thought it was a great interview and I'm not going dismiss him because I disagreed with a couple of things he said during those ten minutes.
Apologies if the links already been posted elsewhere but the ICC recently reviewed 'The Alternative to Capitalism':http://en.internationalism.org/icconline/201309/9122/book-review-alternative-capitalismAnd there is also quite a lengthy discussion of the review – and other matters arising – on their discussion list:http://en.internationalism.org/forum/1056/jk1921/9139/book-review-alternative-capitalism
DJP wrote:I can easily set up a newsletter but it needs someone to volunteer to do it and it's not a high priority now, the last one was ditched because no-one was subscribed to it..As all of this has to be done in our spare time so please be patient.Maybe I was unclear in my original post when I described my proposal as a 'newsletter'.All I my asking is that visitors to the website are offered the option to subscribe to the website via email for updates to Socialist Standard archive and the audio section of the website. I threw in the suggestion about the current Socialist Standard as an afterthought. If the archive isn't updated then people won't receive emails. Simple as.I think the mention of a newsletter conjures up the image of a comrade having to sit down every month and write a fresh report. I understand if that's not what comrades want to do at the moment. I can't imagine my proposal being as high maintenance as that.If someone on the IT Dept knows the technical nuts and bolts of setting up such a email subscription list, I'd be happy to volunteer to compile the list twice a month.
