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According to my uncle (who I borrowed the novel from), Robert Noonan (Tressell) was a member of the Social Democratic Federation (which the SPGB broke away from).
What a coincidence! I’ve just finished reading that (631 page) book for the first time, too.
The names of the capitalists in that book are also hilarious (I might get some of these wrong): Mr. Rushton; Mr. Didlum; Mr. Sweater; Mr. Botchit; Mr. Smeariton; the Duke of D’enclosedland. My personal favourite is (if I remember correctly) one of the women who work for the charity: Mrs. N.B Seel.
There’s an argument about whether the people of this land should be classed as subjects or citizens; however, they should be classed as mugs for supporting their own exploitation, like the workers of Mugsborough (the fictional town in the story).
This is the current prediction for the election result (according to the Electoral Calculus):
– Labour 74% of seats in the House of Commons
– Conservative 14%
– Liberal Democrat 7%
– SNP 2% (20% of the Scottish Westminster seats)
No Milk Today – Hermann’s Hermits
As one person observed, the lead singer looks like Jack & Bobby Kennedy’s British cousin.
Get it Right Next Time – Gerry Rafferty
Coincidentally, this is a United Artists record and today is the 105th anniversary of the founding of that company.
“‘3 sons of Hamas’ billionaire Terror Leader have been killed in an Israeli airstrike.'”
It’s easy to forget that Hamas isn’t a grass-roots organisation, but is led my millionaires & billionaires.
It’s easy to see the bias in that Times of Israel report; for example: use of the words – eliminated’ & ‘taken out’ – instead of ‘killed’.
The article you shared, ALB, was half-enlightening & half-bewildering.
It was enlightening because it showed that the Six-Day War was a proxy war between the major ‘power blocks’ in the world. But it was bewildering because weren’t some of the countries that have been at war with Israel also allied with the West?
This quote from the article is precedent:
‘One thing that is sure is that the Middle East’s unhappy history of tension and conflict will continue. So will the hypocrisy with which it is all supported. In the recent war, for example, all the big powers expressed their regret at the opening of hostilities, conveniently ignoring the fact that it was their arms shipments which had made the whole thing possible.’
If the WSM is right in saying that all wars are waged for economic reasons, then what were the economic reasons for the Arab-Israeli War (1948) & the Six-Day War (1967)?*
*I haven’t included the October War (1973) because Egypt wanted to re-take the Sinai Peninsula in that conflict.
