jondwhite
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In undemocratic parties, leaders dispense with manifestos once their purpose of being elected has been served. No reason to suppose Corbyn would be any different or that he would even be party leader and therefore PM for a full term in government.
I thought the idea of a second head office (squirreled away within the supporting statement) would be your worst nightmare!
Vin wrote:ALB wrote:We know that this is what would happen to a Corbyn Labour government, so there's no point in encouraging illusions about what reforms it might be able to deliver.That isn't my point. Labour is proposing TU rights including the repeal of Tory anti union laws. I am not talking about supporting reformism.
Well it's not exactly strong trade unions forcing his hand. What might be given with one hand, can be taken away with the other. So what will the bargain be? Stagnating or falling wages? Welfare cuts? Offshoring manufacturing jobs? More crumbs are better than less, but it isn't even clear this will be more crumbs, let alone anything to do with the basis the SPGB are seeking support on from the working-class.
I don't know if anyone here reads IS Review (ISR) but the Fall 2017 issue is about the Russian Revolutionhttps://isreview.org/issue/106
For leftist trainspottersFirst general secretary of the CPB Mike Hicks has diedhttps://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-59c3-Wapping-vet-Hicks-died-giving-speech#.Wbk0Ee-GOHt
Quote:It’s easy to say capitalism is fucked up; it’s harder to say what you are going to replace it with. But the hardest of all is how are you gonna get there? If you aren’t going to show me any blueprints, don’t be bringing up this subject anymore. I’m not hiring you to work on my house.Sean: But Marx said….Andrew: Marx was wrong. We need plans now.I'm with Engels on this one, we want socialism that is scientific rather than utopian recipes for the future.
The cover doesn't seem to have been uploaded here yet but it is available at http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.co.uk/2017/09/marxisms-relevance-to-china-1973.htmland it is the best Standard cover I've seen.
How does 52 Clapham High Street compare with WSPNZ HQ at Weymouth Road, Manurewa, Auckland or WSPI at 257 Baghajatin 'E' Block (East), Kolkata?
