[Mike Foster]

 

I think there are enough reasons to be positive. Robbo203 mentions putting “our own house in order”, and there’s already been some good progress towards this, not only with revamping the website and IT system, but also exploring alternative ways of organising. Once we’re a bit further down the line sorting things out, we’ll be better placed to focus on how to get our views out there.

Already, our message has a wider reach now than before, with easy access for anyone online to the Socialist Standard, videos, publications and social media. Terms like ‘capitalism’ and ‘socialism’ are spoken about more in the mainstream media and by people in general now than they were just a few years ago. Our role, of course, is to push our understanding of capitalism and a future socialist society, which is a challenge, but also an opportunity in a climate where people are more receptive to questioning the system.

[Mike Foster]

 Here are details of another session at this year's Summer School: Sex And Power The sex industry makes up a significant, if partly-hidden, sector of the economy. Prostitution and pornography represent extremes of exploitation, lucrative to those with the power and damaging to those pushed into selling themselves. In this talk, Mike Foster will examine the differing impacts which the sex industry has on both women and men, and what this tells us about capitalism as a whole. The remaining session will be announced very soon…For more details, and to make a booking, visit http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/summerschool2018 

[Mike Foster]

 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  

[Mike Foster]

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 

[Mike Foster]

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.

[Mike Foster]

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. 

[Mike Foster]

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.  

[Mike Foster]

There's also Darwin Day on February 12th and World Humanist Day on 21st June!

[Mike Foster]

There are hopefully quite a few (like me) who often look into the forum but don't get around to posting much. 

[Mike Foster]

Thanks for sorting that out

[Mike Foster]

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.

[Mike Foster]

Today’s the day!

[Mike Foster]

I've sent a message to the seller on eBay asking if they have any further details about the book. 

[Mike Foster]

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 literature

And we need banners for people to muster under!

[Mike Foster]

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:1McAAOSwnHZYWrGf

The 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.

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