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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.
Was there ever a transcript made available of this talk? I recently read a Tom Mann biography so I've currently got a passing interest in the SDF.
gnome wrote:Julian Wilson, a member of the Weadlen Progressive Movement and potential member of the SPGB's Kent & Sussex Branch, will be giving a talk on the Social Democratic Federation at the Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells Fabian Society on Friday, 10th October, at the Len Fagg Hall, 71A St.John's Road, Tunbridge Wells, TN4 9TT, starting at 8.00pm.Looks interesting. Do you know if the talk will be available in any format in the future?
yeah, it was a bit daft of me to label the pic as Gordon Davies when I saved it, but there is a method to my madness when a stray Fulham fan seeking solace in their glorious past finds the Party website via a Gordon Davies google search. Of course, I'm sure it was a deliberate decision on the part of the then Editorial Committee to use a Fulham player on the cover of the Standard. Entryists pushing their Fulham agenda on the rest of the working class. It could have been worse. They could have used a pic of Chelsea's Tommy Langley.
