jondwhite
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If anyone particularly wants further breakdown I can provide some more details on request;Membership figures2016-04: 12552016-06: 12302016-08: 10672016-10: 998Falling by 20% in 6 months.All UK regions falling, outside UK is fluctuating, but small gain (15 to 17).Financials Jan 16 to Oct 16IncomeDonations: £510.40Membership: £26,065.85ExpenditurePrinting: £4,158.54Payroll: £6,491.67Total Income: £26,940.49Total expenditure: £23,404.20Profit for the year: £3,536.29
more on that incidenthttps://www.reddit.com/r/Anarchism/comments/5abwye/who_the_fuck_is_amir_taaki_and_why_is_his_cult/
Young Master Smeet wrote:Looks like it's bunkum: I can't see why using a public block chain would necessarily circumvent banks or put frational lending out of business, they could still register your loan/savings on an account, and only issue such block-chain coins as they can get their hands on. I can write an IOU on the back of a fag packet, they creates circulating money (as long as people are willing to accept the fag packet). Doesn't matter about block chains or paper money…your IOU fag packet isn't limited supply though and doesn't have $1bn market cap. Not saying I agree with them but this would be their response.
I attended the first morning of this and brought pamphlets and CDs. Unfortunately as everyone was already inside there was no opportunity to sell them. Maybe a hundred attended, aged mostly fifties and older, roughly sixty or seventy per cent male. The motion to dissolve was proposed by York and to my surprise was a regular feature and met with fierce and widespread opposition. Membership was falling across the country though, as there was a document with the figures. Members didn't agree on what they stood for particularly Scottish independence, one issue they cannot agree a policy on. One ex member who supported Brexit (or should that be Lexit?) shared a circular detailing his expulsion, ostensibly over his membership of Socialist Resistance, which he'd also been expelled from and formed Birmingham Socialist Discussion Group. Members weren't taken in by Corbyn and considered themselves socialists or at least left wing. Members didn't seem self critical but there was no appetite for revolution though and there was a least one trot infiltrator from tiny group Socialist Voice (ICFI I think?) but SWP etc must have given up as there was no sign of any others. Lenin was referenced jokingly in one contribution. I guess this was what the ILP was like. I didn't stay for lunch.
I've just come back from the film and thought everyone already knew how grim life on benefits was.Clearly not now I've had the misfortune to read Toby Young's execrable piece of 'journalism'.Toby Young doubts anyone on welfare listens to Radio 4 or classical music.that 'a middle-aged man who’s just had a massive heart attack really be declared ‘fit for work’'He then sets up a straw man claiming 'We’re asked to believe people who claim incapacity benefit are all upstanding citizens '
Young Master Smeet wrote:jondwhite wrote:Would a by-election be required if Goldsmith just left the Tories instead but remained as an independent MP?No, and technically MPs aren't allowed to resign (but it is becoming mor common): the method is to apply for a Crown Office which disqualifies them from Parliament:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resignation_from_the_British_House_of_Commons
Then why didn't he just stop paying Tory party membership and remain as an independent MP?
Would a by-election be required if Goldsmith just left the Tories instead but remained as an independent MP?
mcolome1 wrote:I have seen materials of the WSM/SPGB publisjhed on Anarchists and Leninists websites. I sent material to a librarian in Cuba. She died last year.Links please?
