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My big problem with stickering public spaces is that it is untargeted and therefore a bad way of campaigning.
gnome wrote:Andrew Kliman has agreed to give a talk at Head Office on Sunday, 5 July at 3pmhttp://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/event/talk-andrew-kliman-head-office-3pmAbsolutely fantastic!!! I'm very impressed.
They're Marxists who reputedly wrote a very good expose of David Harvey's Marxist pretensions in their pamphlet.
You shouldn't need access to iPlayer to view us here.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-32167563Here we are currently listed as 'Monster Socialist Party of GB'I propose a name change then we won't have to ask them to correct this.
Just rewatched the propeller group 2011 advert from the original post and it reminds me of our party election broadcast but maybe that's just the white background.
Vin wrote:Anyone else wondering about the need for this resolution? I am stunned by it! "This Conference recommends that 'key messages' which can be made during theelection campaign should focus on our rejection of leadership in favour of democracyand our aim for a moneyless world of free access." I will be emphasising class struggle and revolution and the control of the earth's resources by a bunch of parasites.Hear, hear
Quote:We have a seminar coming up in Glasgow. Details below: ## The state is like "hi" and the people are like "hey" ## Friday 1 May 2015, 18.00, Fred Paton Centre, 19 Carrington Street, Glasgow, G4 9AJ — Elections are central pillars of democracy. Every 3-5 years democratic states ask their subjects to cast votes on who should run the government. The parties who wish to fulfil this role agitate for a recognition of what they consider the nation's problems, for their solutions and for their visions for the nation, and ultimately for them being the best to run the country. If successful, they take over power which is accepted by those who they defeated. People on the left typically engage with this feast of nationalism and rule in one of two ways. A small minority dismisses elections as inconsequential and fails to see that successful elections accomplish a lot and exactly what they promise: the formation of a government which rules in the name of those it rules over. Others see a great opportunity to make critical voices heard about what "we" really need and ask which left-wing party has the best chance of being the British SYRIZA. In contrast, we want to take a step back from these discussions and simply ask what an election is and what it ought to accomplish for the democratic state. Our main claim here is that elections are means to affirm the unity between rule and those ruled over. On the one hand, elections affirm this unity formally: the outcome of a successful election is a legitimate government which is accepted by society. On the other hand, elections affirm this unity in content: the winning party agitated many it rules over for the necessities of its policies for the betterment of the nation. In this workshop, we will not try to get you to vote, get you to abstain from voting, get you to vote without illusions or get you to vote the Green party or the SNP as the most radical "realistic" choice. Nor do we want to have a debate about "reform or revolution", where "radical purity" is posited against "realistic goals". Instead, we want to establish what an election actually is so that debates like these can be more than poking around in a fog. ===Quote:Updates for anyone in the Bristol & South West coming to the Bristol anarchist bookfair on 25 April:All meetings timetable – http://www.bristolanarchistbookfair.org/timetable-of-meetings-at-the-bookfair/ Booked stalls (full up now) – http://www.bristolanarchistbookfair.org/2015-bookfair/stalls/ After-Party info – http://www.bristolanarchistbookfair.org/never-mind-the-ballots-its-the-bookfair-after-party/ Main page links to all other info – http://www.bristolanarchistbookfair.org/2015-bookfair/If you are in the area come on down and check the Bookfair out – we hope the Bookfair will be your ideal antidote to the Electoral farce around us, with its lies, posturing and media spin, as the political elite reshuffles their pack to see who will rule over us. With the disunited Left feebly seeking a 'mandate to govern', we say bollocks to the lot of them. We don't ask you to 'join us', but we encourage you to self-organise and DIY for freedom, total equality and social revolution. Let's get stuck in!In solidarity – Bristol anarchist bookfair collective
