[jondwhite]

How would we set up a Socialist Party representing the SPGB alone?

[jondwhite]

Can I skype the AUTUMN SCHOOL: 22 October, Saturday, 2 PM – 7 PM or otherwise listen to recordings?Also are there any RSS feeds from any of the WSPI web activity e.g. website, facebook, academia.edu?

[jondwhite]

The properties of the PDF file I looked at suggests the PDF convertor used is PDFCreator.

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I wouldn't object to your proposal but I don't see what's new? What's to stop a post in 'General Discussion' or 'World Socialist Movement' or 'Events and Announcements' calling for SPGB activity locally somewhere? Isn't every post in 'Events' an implicit invitation for SPGB members to attend? Or should it be a more explicit invitation?

[jondwhite]

Well there is this forum World Socialist Movement section, the meetuphttp://www.meetup.com/The-Socialist-Party-of-Great-Britain/Where you can even discuss SPGB activity herehttp://www.meetup.com/The-Socialist-Party-of-Great-Britain/messages/boards/There is also the yahoo mailing lists, facebook, twitter? etc. ….I don't think there is a shortage of places to discuss arranging activity between local members and supporters.

[jondwhite]

The Dawkins is Comrade F. E. Dawkins and the incident is in 1909.

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I take 'hostility' to mean relating to other political parties which support capitalism by electoral pacts, lending support or endorsing candidates or participating in their campaigns or voting for their legislation? I presume 'hostility' does not preclude speaking at or attending non-SPGB events or non-members speaking at or attending SPGB events?

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I'm sure WSPUS could exchange speakers and audiences with the DSA given the inclination. Nothing in hostility clauses stops this or mandates personal hostility.

[jondwhite]

Maybe we could settle the question “What would be the attitude of a member of the SPGB if elected to Parliament, and how would he maintain the principle of ‘No Compromise’?” in the Model House of Commons.

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There is a 'Socialist party' described as

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The Socialist Party has:Campaigned for the disestablishment of the Church of EnglandCampaigned for a fairer system of Corporation TaxCampaigned for the formation of the British RepublicCampaigned for the right to be treated as human beings irrespective of sexualityCampaigned for recognition of the horrors of the HolocaustCampaigned for greater cooperation within EuropeCampaigned for a cleaner environmentCampaigned for less pre-charge detentionCampaigned for the protection of vulnerable young peopleCampaigned for the secularisation of schoolsCampaigned against private healthcareCampaigned for free school mealsCampaigned for a United Ireland free from British ruleCampaigned for more powers granted to devolved bodies

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/wiki/HOC:_The_History_of_the_TSR_House_of_Commons#Legislation_Proposed

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Well, good work! I always hope new socialists might be made, but they also claimed on that forum, he is booking a holiday to North Korea. How true that is I don't know!

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A long conversation, well monologue i suffered from a young CPGB-MLer at Wigan Diggers Festival may have been from this guy who has now resignedhttp://www.network54.com/Forum/393207/message/1469801664/Whither+the+CPGBML+-

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Matt Florence the rising star of the CPGBML and the Facebook supremo of the CPGBML suddenly and abruptly announced his resignation from that Party on Facebook. Florence was very much the mainstay of the CPGBML's activist cadre. His resignation is quite mysterious and inexplicable . Florence is not the only defector from the CPGBML , there has been a steady loss of members from the CPGBMl. Some left over the scurrillious and repulsive attack on UK KFA on the Red Youth website, others left for a number of different reasons. Working class recruits intially attracted by the CPGBML's opposition to Labour found themselves uncomfortable in a party dominated by middle class elitists and those who have never had a real job for about 30 years or more. It looks like over an intial period of success and growth the CPGBML is now foundering. The jury is out on whether the CPGBML is just a group of middle class people playing at being revolutionaries or another Balkrishnan Workers Institute type job or the most sinister of the lot a state run "anti-revisionist " party , another "British and Irish Communist Organisation" . Only future generations will come to know the truth.

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gnome wrote:

jondwhite wrote:

Nope, no party literature was sold or given away. It did cross my mind getting copies of August issue for the Corbyn rally but didn't think there would have been time and I only found about it the day before.

So you're actually saying that you didn't have any previous editions of the Standard, leaflets or pamphlets in your possession?  Here were ideal opportunities to publicise genuine socialism and to reinvigorate the Liverpool Discussion Group which, after a single foray last January, now appears dead in the water. We've got to do much better than this.

Labour Conference is in ACC Liverpool at Liverpool Echo Arena from Sunday 25 September to Wednesday 28 September 2016 and there is talk of doing something for that. However my limited experience of Labour events is many members who turn up are barely interested in politics, so much as social justice (the Corbynistas), 'getting the Tories out' (the unions) or self-interest (the PLP), let alone socialism.

[jondwhite]

Here's Owen Smith's upcoming eventshttp://www.owen2016.com/eventshere's Momentum / Corbyn's upcoming eventshttp://www.peoplesmomentum.com/calendar

[jondwhite]

Nope, no party literature was sold or given away. It did cross my mind getting copies of August issue for the Corbyn rally but didn't think there would have been time and I only found about it the day before.

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