Mike Foster
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I'm happy to announce another session at this year's Summer School: Film showing: Did Gender Egalitarianism Make Us Human? by Camilla Power (Senior lecturer in Anthropology at the University of East London)Introduced by Carla Dee and Richard Field, with discussion afterwards Other sessions will be publicised very soon…For more details, and to make a booking, visit http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/summerschool2018
As part of this year's 'Gender And Power' Summer School there will be an exhibition on the SPGB's views on feminism over the years, a bookstall, and an exclusive publication! As well as the talks on the pay gap issue and intersectionality already confirmed, other sessions are being planned, and there should be more announcements soon. The event is being held over the long weekend 3rd – 5th August at Fircroft College in Birmingham. For more details, and to make a booking, visit http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/summerschool2018 Mike
Here are details of another Summer School talk! Bill Martin will present…Equal work for equal value?This talk will look at the relevance of value, and the labour theory of value to discussions around the gender pay gap in the workplace. It will look at value as a story told to lay claim to the output of society, and will relate that to Utopian visions of women and womanhood. It will argue that that value is not a value-free idea, but in fact a deliberate move in the class struggle to enforce the power of the capitalist class. Along the way, this talk will take in how the working class is exploited, and how this exploitation contains within itself the end of capitalist values. Finally, it will suggest that the struggle over equal wages contains within itself the drive toward the abolition of the wages system itself.
Summer School is always a good opportunity to discuss ideas, not only our own but also those of other perspectives. We should look into approaches such as intersectionality so we can offer our reasoned views on them.
I'm happy to announce the first of this year's Summer School talks!Lorna Stevens and Paddy Shannon present…'Inside the Matrix'This talk will argue against the premise that oppression is simply the product of class struggle and that feminism can be dismissed as identity politics which distract from the real issue. Feminism and socialism are not either / or, positions. An understanding of class, patriarchy and intersectionality is crucial to the challenge of establishing a world based on socialist principles.Another talk will be announced very soon! If you'd like to make a booking, see the details in the posts above.
There are hopefully quite a few (like me) who often look into the forum but don't get around to posting much.
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?!
