jondwhite
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SocialistPunk wrote:Wasn't Ben Elton a Labour Party supporter or member?I know he was part of the comedy contingent of Red Wedge in 1987.
He was one of the biggest private donors to the Labour party election campaigns.
[Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg] cut out entirely a scene in which American actor Alan Blumenfeld, 62, played Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Iranian-American actor David Diaan, 52, played Palestinian leader Abbas… , arguing over the Middle East peace process. Franco then diffuses the situation and brings peace by having them share a meal of falafel. Since the two leaders both agree that they like the falafel Franco tells them that it is clear that they can at least agree on something.
Trade union style banners aren't supposed to be homogenous, they're supposed to be individual artistic works I think.
There are 5.5 million English speakers in Malaysia, more than the population of Wales.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population
We have a few previous articles on CND herehttps://www.google.co.uk/search?q=cnd+site%3Aworldsocialism.org%2Fspgb%2F
SocialistPunk wrote:jondwhite wrote:Contesting elections is a major component of entering the field of political action determined to wage war against all other political parties and calling upon the members of the working class of this country to muster under its banner.I think Farage would agree wholeheartedly with that statement.
I look forward to his open letter in the Standard then.
Contesting elections is a major component of entering the field of political action determined to wage war against all other political parties and calling upon the members of the working class of this country to muster under its banner.
Quote:Mr Farage dismissed the apparent drop in his popularity, telling the Evening Standard it was “a volatile market”.“Ukip has had a pretty remarkable year,” he said. “If we are ending on a slightly softer note, it’s perhaps not surprising.”Bet Farage gets more votes than Brand at the next election.
JamesH81 wrote:What policy are SPGB going to run in elections in Oxford, is it going to be anti – cuts …. whatever it is should be rooted in the experiences of working class life and real campaigns ….We will campaign for the establishment of a system of society based upon the common ownership and democratic control of the means and instruments for producing and distributing wealth by and in the interest of the whole community.That the struggle for higher wages and shorter hours may result in greater intensification of labour is no argument against the prosecution of that struggle. It does, however, doom any attempt of the workers to materially alter their conditions by means of such a struggle alone. To become tired out in six hours instead of ten may be a gain—we are not concerned to argue that it is not. The thing to be remembered is that one is tired out. The struggle, then, of itself, fails. It cannot alter the essential conditions of working-class existence. It must be maintained to resist the worsening of working-class existence, but it cannot lift the. workers from that vicious circle wherein a victory in the matter of hours or wages is answered by greater intensification of labour and increased insecurity. It can never lift them above poverty and anxiety. .Therefore the struggle must be supplemented by something else if any extensive and permanent improvement in the position of the working class is to be secured.The system fails in the distribution of the wealth that is produced.We know why it fails in distribution. It is because the workers' demand upon the wealth they produce is limited to the amount which is necessary to enable them to produce it. The reason for this is, of course, that the worker has to sell his labour-power, and has only the price thereof on which to live.This means that the new basis of society must be such as will remove from the workers the need to sell their labour-power to others. It must, therefore, give them free access to the means of living.One thing is certain. If the workers are to have free access to the means of living, those means must not he in the ownership and control of any section of society.It is not for us to build up in detail the social system that will arise from the common ownership and democratic control of the instruments of labour. Our knowledge of the conditions which will prevail at the time of the change, and of the outlook upon life of people who are free to arrange matters pretty much as "they wish", is not extensive enough to warrant us seriously attempting to foretell the details of the future social system.We can only state the broad changes that we know must arise from the revolution in the social base.The most obvious result of the establishment of common ownership of the means and instruments for producing and distributing wealth is. that the wages system would be abolished.
