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Writing from the other side of the Ocean, a better functioning WSPUS would be nice. After all, 2016 isn't that far away and that will be the hundredth anniversary of the formation of the WSPUS.And, yes, I know that the WSPUS will only function better if members like my good self get off my arse and do some actual activity.
Cheers for the reply. I'm half-hoping that PD will spot see my post, and that she might have more information.It'd be nice if someone stuck a tape recorder – showing my age – under John Lee's nose and got him to do a wee anecdotal rundown of his history in the Party.
I don't usually get poetry but some interesting stuff by a comrade F. W. Webb which appeared in the Socialist Standard during the First World War: October 1914: The Lust of WarFebruary 1915: To The Princes of the ChurchFebruary 1916: In Time of WarMay 1916: To the Advocates of MilitarismDecember 1918: The Call
If there had been a Yes vote in the Scottish Referendum, it would have been Salmond but, as is, it was Farage's year. Piketty, Brand or Klein don't even come close.
I found a couple of the clips of Fall of Eagles, featuring Patrick Stewart as Lenin. I've not watched them, so apologies if they overlap. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93cdeMAY3cAhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urSaGebApQs
I'm guessing you're referring to Trevor Griffiths's Absolute Beginners which was a self-contained episode within the 1974 BBC series Fall of Eagles series. Absolute Beginners was a dramatisation of the 1903 split between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks at the RSDLP second congress in London in 1903. There are clips of the episode on YouTube but I'm not sure if the full episode is available online.Griffiths, I guess, is best known for co-writing the screenplay to Reds, which was Warren Beatty's hollywood blockbuster about John Reed and Louise Bryant.
That's only part 1! I think the film is about five hours long.I enjoyed it when I watched it a few years ago.
Any report back on this debate? I noticed that an SPGBer had a letter published in this week's Weekly Worker, where they mention the debate.
Better late than never, that interview with Tony Benn from the January 1980 issue of the Socialist Standard:Link: Socialists confront Mr Tony Benn
alanjjohnstone wrote:With 2000 signed up LU members registered, 500 attended their conference as delegates, 1 in 4. That is not bad a turn-out.I await the reports of their conference.500 attendees at the Conference this past weekend? Looking at the YouTube clips of the Conference, it doesn't even look half that number. Maybe I just picked the wrong clip.
Nice work.It's not much but I've just reposted this on the Socialist Standard Past and Present blog.
