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For the questionnaire I'd suggest askingWhich party do you support?Which party will you vote for?Do you support the UK leaving the European Union?Should Wales remain part of the United Kingdom?Are you a socialist?If not, why not?Do you think socialism has been tried before?What age are you?What do you think of the Socialist Standard?Are the Labour party under Jeremy Corbyn 'socialist'?Is a free market in line with human nature?Are you in favour of freedom of speech?

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Major news outlets were reporting earlier this week the DSA has tripled their dues-paying membership in the last year to 19,000 (in February it was 16,000 according to reports)http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-democratic-socialists-20170308-story.html

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Issue 3 is out nowhttp://marxistworld.net/2017/03/editoral-introduction-to-issue-3/

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What's the carbon footprint of 52 Clapham High Street?

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Agreed, I don't want to disregard all protest as 'the passing show', this would be a bit of a utopian view.

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I looked  up the description used on our events calendar on the platypus website and came across thishttps://platypus1917.org/2016/05/31/socialism-international-social-democracy-platypus-2016-convention/and thishttps://archive.org/details/WhatIsInternationalSocialDemocracyOpeningPlenaryPASConv2016

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JamesH81 wrote:

after the success of the london nhs demo….

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No Cuts, Closures & Privatisation End Pay Restraint for NHS Staff! For A Fully Funded, Publicly Owned National Health & Social Care Service!

From https://www.ournhs.info/Not wishing to be cynical but which of these have succeeded?

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Sorry to hear this news about stepping down as branch secretary.

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Great! Though the merits of looking back at the Second International will be an obscure leftist preoccupation not a SPGB one.

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Sorry I meant the 26/2 one mentioned in respect of layout

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What was the SSPC report?

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No we don't reject Engels. What Engels wrote has been discussed extensively here with Lbird and SPGB members.

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Members can have different opinions on reforms but there are more positions than justSPGB representatives couldn't cast any votes because all reforms are detrimental to the class or 'workers should stew in their own juice' (Henry Martin, SPL etc.)SPGB representatives could vote for reforms but not propose themThere is alsoSPGB representatives could vote for reforms but not propose them or accept them as part of a package or trade-off

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For our own self interest as workers

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What did you think of their diagram?

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