Mike Foster
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According to Wikipedia, Bill and Adam are running for the SDP! Anyone able to change it over? My phone's not letting me post the link, but the pages can be found from the 'United Kingdom Local Elections 2018' one.
alanjjohnstone wrote:"Are we Bolsheviks? "Marcos, we are invisible…Surely, a socialist standard, should be unfurled wherever we attempt to have a physical presence to distribute our leaflets and literatureAnd we need banners for people to muster under!
Marcos wrote:Mike Foster wrote:Surely this is nothing to do with us?https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Introduction-to-the-World-Socialist-Movement-PU-GUO-LIANG-ZH/152364804283?hash=item2379a668bb:g:1McAAOSwnHZYWrGfThe Socialist Party should contact the seller because he is claiming that he is the author. That is a violation of law of intellectual property. We must be very careful with those seller from ebay,
Lighten up! Whatever the book is, I don't think the seller is the same as the author.
Surely this is nothing to do with us?https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Introduction-to-the-World-Socialist-Movement-PU-GUO-LIANG-ZH/152364804283?hash=item2379a668bb:g:1McAAOSwnHZYWrGf
Here's the best one I've found, which I thought I'd flag up:https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/The-Socialist-Party-Of-Great-Britain-Garage-Hangar-Basement-Flag-3×5-Feet/292341008511?hash=item4410e1c87f:g:GPEAAOSwAO1amx~kThe seller is a flag shop, and I'm guessing they've trawled the internet for logos to print out on flags. I wonder if they've sold any?!
Pricey Ashbourne Court pamphlet about war and terrorismhttps://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Capitalism-Causes-War-And-Terrorism-Socialist-Party-of-Great-Britain-Good-Cond/361647515145?hash=item5433df2609:g:PdIAAOSwAGlZxpmi
And here are the Questions Of The Day and Trade Unions pamphlets with some other literature. Worth a fiver, I'd sayhttps://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/THE-SOCIALIST-PARTY-OF-GREAT-BRITAIN-PAMPHLETS-OTHER-POLITICAL-BOOKS/222898279783?hash=item33e5c5d567:g:cNIAAOSwuShad2pc
Part of a 1910 Socialist Standard with an article about the Suffragettes is up on ebay:https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SUFFRAGETTE-ARTICLE-SOCIALIST-STANDARD-JULY-1910-TEARS-SEE-SCAN/232693264215?hash=item362d996f57:g:VhoAAOSwXfdamQyy
jondwhite wrote:IS Cliffites (the Socialist Workers Party) and Alliance for Workers Liberty have said to me the SPGB is 'sectarian' and 'abstract propagandist and removed from the class struggle'. Is this a genuine misunderstanding of our case? I often wonder if they aren't just following Lenin in delivering ad hominem insults.I'd say that the 'sectarian' remark is how our 'hostility clause' could be seen by others, or just a lazy slur because we're not part of the Leninist/Trotskyite/etc scene. The 'removed from the class struggle' bit might refer to our lack of a presence on demos, pickets etc. Of course, we're engaged with the class struggle just by being in capitalism, but demos and pickets are perceived as the 'front line' of the class struggle. I'd advocate attending more events like this as an opportunity to state our case. By 'abstract propagandist' I'd say they think our theory either doesn't relate to the real world (which is easily disproved by picking up the Socialist Standard) or doesn't advocate supposedly non-abstract reforms (which isn't what we're about). If we put ourselves out there a bit more, and perhaps invite other organisations to debates, then we could be seen as less aloof. The Campaigns Department should sort something out…
