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jpodcaster wrote:Bit of a liberal use of the word 'some' there Jon – 1 or 2 at most?
Anyone know why there are no SPGB candidates in the South-West constituency for the Euros?
jondwhite wrote:Allow me to try and stop the going round in circles of the old favourite semantic song 'Do you know 'one true socialism'? No but if you hum it I can try and play the tune'.It looks like with the left in disarray, as I predicted on page 36 (post #357) some lefties are considering voting SPGB.http://www.theleftvote.org.uk/?page_id=473http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/left-candidates-in-the-may-elections.323112/Well, maybe it was a bit of a liberal use of the word, but today's Weekly Worker have announced they are calling on workers to vote SPGB.http://cpgb.org.uk/home/weekly-worker/1008/cpgb-aggregate-left-strategy-and-election-tacticsTheir article says 'a critical vote for the SPGB in Wales'.http://cpgb.org.uk/home/weekly-worker/1008/eu-elections-trying-to-vote-internationalist
Nobody can force members not to respond, but we try to elect to committees those most able to specialise in public relations of the party. At conference this year, one branch proposed a carefully planned Media strategy. Part of this would necessitate the use of those elected to committees to produce any responses to media items such as this.We made complaints to the BBC in 2012, then in 2013 they featured Marx and invited Alan Woods (IMT) on rather than us.If members want to let off some steam, then by all means do it on twitter. Twitter is for sounding off and stirring up heated discussion.
This is a general open plea but please no more amateur 'disgusted of Tunbridge Wells' poison-pen letters to the Beeb. I thought we learned our lesson with Stephanie Flanders. That was why they were reluctant to engage with our organisation.The CPUSA feature is a profile in the BBC magazine section, not an advert. The CPUSA are not even popular on the left let alone broader American society and I don't think this profile will change that.
Dunno to be honest.See the top link athttps://www.google.co.uk/search?q=royal+mail+election+regulationsIt states'To be correctly classed as an election mailing, all candidate mail artwork needs to comply with strict guidelines. So at Royal Mail, the Artwork Checking Team checks your mailing to make sure it’s up to specification. Remember, only checked and approved artwork will be accepted for mailing. The Artwork Checking Team ensures all election mailing artwork adheres to a strict code – the requirements are set out in the representation of the People Act 1983 (as amended). This Act also entitles a party or candidate to have one mailing delivered free of charge to them to either each domestic address or each eligible elector* in the relevant electoral area. All mail must be purely about the election concerned and must not contain any obscene, offensive or indecent content. The Artwork Checking Team also check envelopes to make sure they meet design guidelines.'Wikipedia has some info on representation of the People Act 1983https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representation_of_the_People_Act_1983
Allow me to try and stop the going round in circles of the old favourite semantic song 'Do you know 'one true socialism'? No but if you hum it I can try and play the tune'.It looks like with the left in disarray, as I predicted on page 36 (post #357) some lefties are considering voting SPGB.http://www.theleftvote.org.uk/?page_id=473http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/left-candidates-in-the-may-elections.323112/
The major works listed on Wikipedia;The Communist ManifestoA Contribution to the Critique of Political EconomyDas KapitalThe Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis NapoleonGrundrisseThe German IdeologyEconomic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844Theses on Feuerbachonly the first four seem to have English translations in the public domain (pre 1923).In fact, they could be something to host on this website.
For reference of those interested, the leaflet in Wales as an election address was subject to various regulations by Royal Mail about what can and cannot appear presumably as per election law. Some of the text (especially at the beginning and end) is required as mandatory or else the leaflet would not be distributed or would otherwise be impeded.
Watch out Left Unity and No2EUhttp://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/04/how-ukip-turning-left-economy
As student societies are formed by students not the university, we would have to approach it from this angle. I suspect we'd get more sincere interest from the Hayek society than the 'Marxist' one. Forming a student society would require making a call out to members (and branches I think) for students for running stalls at freshers fairs.
I just read a Huffington post article on Brand and he stated something of interest to yesterdays conference discussion on impediments to socialism
Quote:That air of exclusivity, over-sincerity and smugness on the left has turned many of the disillusioned away from politics and toward their XBox instead, Brand said. “Serious causes can and must be approached with good humour, otherwise they’re boring and can’t compete with the Premier League and Grand Theft Auto. Social movements needn’t lack razzmatazz. The right has all the advantages, just as the devil has all the best tunes.Page 14 is a Socialist Studies speaker is it not? Who are the other speakers pictured?A couple of translations of writing by Stuart Watkins make appearances here.
