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The ruling-class don't have to win an election to appear popular as long as there is a complicit pliant media.I think what is so compelling about the downfall of Ceaușescu is the rude awakening he and his deeply unpopular fraudulent and arrogant wife got. He pathetically tried to escape to save his own skin and ended up with a taste of his own medicine that he must have meted out to many political critics during his rule.If any readers are unfamiliar this is compelling viewinghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLfZWGOZ03Q&t=20m43s
Although ZeroHedge source seems to be right-wing, there certainly seems to be a trend at the moment for suppressing free speech especially in universities
Quote:Tensions at Yale University hit a boiling point yesterday after an email about Halloween costumes created a week-long controversy on campus. Students called for the resignation of Associate Master of Silliman College Erika Christakis after she responded to an email from the school’s Intercultural Affairs Council asking students to be thoughtful about the cultural implications of their Halloween costumes. According to The Washington Post, students are also calling for the resignation of her husband, Master of Silliman College, Nicholas Christakis, who defended her statement. FIRE President and CEO Greg Lukianoff recorded video of students confronting Nicholas Christakis yesterday in the courtyard of the Silliman College dormitory complex at Yale. Lukianoff was on Yale’s campus to speak at a conference on issues related to free speech in higher education.https://www.thefire.org/yale-students-demand-resignations-from-faculty-members-over-halloween-email/However any progressive group hosting public events ought to be trying to create a safer space where abuse, intellectual bullying or belittling or unrelated prejudice is not enabled with the effect of discouraging participation.I'm not so sure about a slippery slope argument against safer spaces leading to censorship, you might as well argue in favour of safers spaces by saying "Comrade Bala's" "Workers Institute" was the result of no safer spaces policy.
Don't know if this video of the debate has been shared anywhere elsehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUOypUUdM2Q
Aaronvitch himself being a former hardline Stalinist. He still supports war but the other side of the same coin.
To return to this, can anyone elaborate on the SPGB differences with;critisticuffsaufhebenmarxist humanist orgmouvement communiste
Vin is being sarcastic. Kautsky pamphlets were among the first pamphlets published by the party. Kautsky was not a member or of companion parties but was considered a good writer on Marxism.
I'm not sure what the Office of National statistics (ONS) is asked to report on, but certain reports are commissioned by the government and certain ones are not. I think one of the SPGB pamphlets alluded to this in reference to a report on poverty or social mobility.Is what is being proposed a sort of Socialist Office of National Statistics or think tank? The New Economics Foundation occasionally produce interesting reports.Stuff like social mobility reports seem not to be get widespread publicity, nor to the amount of failed businesses or how much is wasted when they fail. Honest unemployment statistics and redundancies per year. Trade unions report trade union membership.Maybe I'm just not looking hard enough.
Socialist Project, the publication of Independent Socialist Network has just published November 2015 issue.http://www.socialistproject.org/category/issues/november-2015/including this articlehttp://www.socialistproject.org/issues/november-2015/so-what-is-this-marxist-party/
Surely anyone who supports Corbyn will support Sadiq Khan including those voting for the interests of Islam?
Well in reference to the Southern Baptist florist and pizza shop opposed to gay weddings raking in thousands of dollars profit, the conclusion of the article pretty shamefully states "There must be a lesson there somewhere." The implication being there is more profit in opposing gay weddings than supporting them.
May 2015 Socialist StandardI thought the comment "Wouldn’t it have been easier just to find another bloody baker?" was objectionable.The job of bakers under capitalism is to bake for profit not to express their bigotry.
