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Okay but I meant fascias of instantly recognisable high street brands not local small businesses with a cornershop.
The aesthetic argument is also that just putting 'The Socialist Party' on the fascia is simple and striking.How many other high street fascias contain more than three words to identify their business?
ALB wrote:It appears that they are going to appear to conform to the ban on factional meetings not open to all LU members, according to a recent circular:They also have a CPGB-PCC aggregate on February 8 open only to members and invited supporters. One wonders whether Left Unity will be discussed there?
Michael Portillo revisited Marxism on his visit to Manchester. It was broadcast a couple of days ago and is available on BBC iPlayer for another 14 days.http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03pmrvk
Man/person of principle looks like it means even less interested in a coherant politics than most politicians who consistently do as they're told.
Of course, when workers stop supporting capitalism, you will find the ruling class willing to offer all sorts of previously "impossible" "unrealistic" concessions to workers considering supporting socialism. Rich menus of reforms will be offered aplenty.The bargain will be offered in exchange for supporting capitalism. If workers can resisting equating reforms in a class society with emancipation under socialism, then whether the reforms are taken or not, the support for emancipation under socialism will persist. A party unwilling to compromise such as the SPGB seems the best vehicle to do this.
Blimey, most boring is quite a claim. I'm pretty sure there are many more boring. Nobody could accuse us of being relatively boring by comparison in the debate with Hillel Ticktin. There are other currents like left communism who are more boring.It sounds like the accuser was looking for an excuse and really just wanted to criticise.I don't want the SPGB to play the victim as victim politics is awful. But there is a pattern of Trots ignoring the SPGB when it suits and singling the SPGB out for throwing baseless slurs when it suits. The SPGB poses awkward questions for Trots who can only ignore it or sling mud.
Funny how the SPGB is always left out, while organisations much smaller (AWL, Workers Power, CPGB-ML, AMM, SR, ISN-Nelson, ISN-Seymour, Counterfire etc.) always get name checked.
Occupied Times of London Issue 23 – November 2013 on the theme of technology is now outhttp://theoccupiedtimes.org/
Quote:Thursday 16th January 2014: Luddite Memorial Lecture – Dr Matthew Roberts The first annual Luddite Memorial Lecture – dedicated to the late Lesley Kipling, a local historian – is to be given at Huddersfield University by Dr Matthew Roberts of Sheffield Hallam University. It is entitled 'Luddism Through the Chartist Looking Glass: Shirley & the Modernisation of Popular Protest'. Your RSVP is requested to huddhistorysecretary@gmail.com FREE. Canalside East (CEG/28), Firth Street, Huddersfield, HD1 3BZ. 7.30 p.m. Wednesday 26th February 2014: Nottingham and the Pentrich Revolution – Michael Clark This is a talk for Wollaton Historical & Conservation Society. FREE to members, £2 to visitors. St Leonard’s Community Centre, Bramcote Lane, Wollaton, NG8 2ND. 7.30 p.m. Saturday 12th April 2014: Luddite Martyrs Weekend – Luddite Bicentenary/Huddersfield Anarchist League In what we hope will be an annual event, you are invited to commemorate the Luddite Martyrs who gave their lives over 200 years ago so that working-class people could envisage a different version of 'progress' than that imposed by the government and manufacturers and upheld by their inheritors ever since. 202 years after the failed Luddite attack on Rawfolds Mill, we invite admirers of the Luddites and those who carry their torch today to gather at the site of the new memorial to them in Liversedge. At this stage, our plans are limited to the gathering here and a drink in the Shears public house further up the road on the day itself, but it is likely we will also organise a walk along the route the Luddites took to Rawfolds on the evening of 11th April 1812 on the same weekend, if not the day itself. Possible other events on the Friday or Saturday evening could include a film show & talk and an evening of music and poetry. FREE Liversedge Sparrow Park (junction of Knowler Hill & Halifax Road/A649), Liversedge. Starting at approximately 12.00 p.m. facebook event Friday 2nd May to Monday 5th May: Breaking the Frame: A Gathering on the Politics of Technology – Luddites200 Our system of industrial capitalism is in both economic and environmental crisis. Part of the cause of these crises is the technologies that we use – although they do of course bring benefits, technologies are largely designed and controlled by corporate, military and technocratic elites to serve their interests and exert their power. So, in order to really face up to those crises we need a new politics of technology, a politics that goes beyond the myths that technology is just a neutral tool or that technological advances necessarily bring progress. The Breaking the Frame gathering is a step towards creating that new politics. We will be bringing together campaigns on the technology politics of food, energy/climate/ environment, work/economics/austerity, the military, the internet, surveillance health and gender, as well as trade unionists, radical scientists, artists and developers of alternative technologies. The aim is to learn from each other and to build a new network, to strengthen campaigns and make issues about technology more central in radical movements. Some of the issues we’ll discuss include:- What does a critical politics of technology mean in the 21st century: democratic control or ‘low technology’?- History of industrial society and environmental crisis; challenging the concept of progress through technology – Experiences in different campaigns and struggles – Alternative visions of social and technological development, and the transition to a sustainable and socially just society.There will be demonstrations and workshops on craft-based production, poetry, music, walking etc. If you are interested in the gathering please email luddites200@yahoo.co.uk. The gathering will take place near Sheffield. FURTHER DETAILS TBA
