steve colborn
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I was talking specifically about issues such as moderation control and control of whomsoever is allowed to post on the site! As well as issues surrounding post content.Hopefully that will be clarified within the next week.YFS,Steve Colborn.
I imagine that will be an item on the Agenda northern light! At the moment, N.E. Branch has no control over it's own site, an issue I presume will be addressed. I hope that you, along with other interested partys will attend. It is about time a Socialist presence is once again in evidence in our region. More than merely a presence in the local press, regardless of how successful!!!Speak to you at the meeting?Steve Colborn.
Thanks for that Vin. Up until now, 3 members (including myself) have expressed an intention to participate in the forthcoming Branch meeting.I am still progressing the agenda and will post it when ready. If there are no other offers, I offer myself as chair for the meeting! Once again, all are welcome at the meeting at which I look forward to seeing more members and non-members.YFSSteve Colborn.
Just seen Osbourne on the news, talking about Baroness Varsi's resignation. He states that this was an unnecessary move, as the UK were working with others to bring peace to Gaza.Does he mean that by supplying arms to Israel, they can successfully obliterate Hamas and all forces opposed to Israel from the Gaza strip? Thereby bringing peace by default!!!
Hi M8, I too hope you get accepted, neverless, if it is a no, then if you are that interested and know there is something wrong with present society, keep reading and arguing for a better way to organise "human society", it's that simple.A fellow member of the working class, Steve Colborn.
I am struggling to see how rule 2 could or can be applied to Vin Maratty. As far as I can judge, Vin's posts merely followed a natural progression of a thread!!! Steve Colborn.
I suppose it's to much to ask these "senior" arsewipes, to coinsider getting rid of the main cause of depression within Capitalism? namely Capitalism itself!!!Problem solved. As the Meercats say, "simples".Or as pro Capitalist politicians say would say, if they had the stones,fuck them, let them get even more depressed, do the "decent thing" and reduce the burden on the real creators of wealth, the wealthy.Our "betters" need to wise up and realise it's their system that's the problem and quickly, before more people suffer the dire consequences!
That's a very good post, Steve. Very much in touch with the truth of the realities of capitalism. The 'truth hurts' as the saying goes which is how we know it exists.The world and its resources should not be owned and controlled by a tiny minority; they are the common heritage of all humanki Indeed we do and it is Vin. the truth not only hurts, it kills in the 100's of millions. To argue about a point here, or a point there, is to insult our brothers and sisters and to make their lives a sham and moreover futile! This comrades, is what we need to get our "heads" around, make sense of and eventually, provide a conduit with which "our class", can eventually get rid of this appaling travesty, that our "betters" pass off as civilisation!!!It's so funny, I've just wet my pants : (Steve Colborn.Never, in the field of societal history, has so much, been ripped off, off so many, by so few!!!!!!!!
Post 5We, as Socialists, see the "reality" all around us, every day. We do not find it a very edifying sight, nor one that is in the best interests of the majority of humans on the planet. When a tiny, infinitesimal amount of people, live in unalloyed opulence, whilst we, the majority, live in varying degrees of want, squalor, poverty and insecurity and as aware, class-conscious individuals and moreover, a Socialist movement, we are moved to act and put forward the alternative, a society based on common ownership, where the world and everything in and on it, belong to us all. It is incumbent, therefore, for anyone who shares our "goals", to stop sitting on the sidelines and to get involved in the nitty gritty of working vfor and organising toward, a new and better society!!!Steve Colborn.There can be no confusion as to the "reality" that is being discussed! As Socialists, but just as importantly, as workers, we not only see this reality but live it and undergo it every single day. We do not need to go into narrow, pedantic discussions of what "reality really is", we see this every day when we have trouble paying our bills, or simply putting food on the table. When as unemployed workers, we are traduced by the "state" but more perversely by our "fellow workers" of being idle, workshy, scrounging parasites!!! This "is" the reality workers see and live.What we as Socialists do and do well, is to draw the attention of our "fellows", to the contradictions inherent in Capitalism! Contradictions which our masters try to hide, or explain away, by layers of cant, hypocritical nonsense, obfuscation and outrights lies.Myself, I try not to hide the contradictions, or wrap them up in intellectual jargon, just for the sake of it! I try to call a spade a spade and a lying, duplicitous, self-serving pro capitalist politician, just that! I call a Capitalist a parasite, because in essence, that is what he and they are! They take without concern for the "host". Unlike a leech however, sucking blood until gorged, then falling off until the next time it needs a good feed, the Capitalists are never "full", nor "satisfied", nor "sated" but just go on sucking the life blood from their host/hosts, the working class, knowing full well that in the self perpetuating system that Capitalism is, workers are replaced and so the cycle continues, of the class exploitation of the working class majority.This is the reality, our reality and does not need long winded prose to explain it! Keep it simple, keep it real but most importantly, keep it relevant comrades!!!Be well alland keep up the struggle : )
We, as Socialists, see the "reality" all around us, every day. We do not find it a very edifying sight, nor one that is in the best interests of the majority of humans on the planet. When a tiny, infinitesimal amount of people, live in unalloyed opulence, whilst we, the majority, live in varying degrees of want, squalor, poverty and insecurity and as aware, class-conscious individuals and moreover, a Socialist movement, we are moved to act and put forward the alternative, a society based on common ownership, where the world and everything in and on it, belong to us all. It is incumbent, therefore, for anyone who shares our "goals", to stop sitting on the sidelines and to get involved in the nitty gritty of working vfor and organising toward, a new and better society!!!Steve Colborn.
When I had the position of N.E. Branch Press Officer, I regularly put out press releases on a variety of topical subjects. This kept the Party name prominently in the spotlight. Also, when the branch was in one of it's most active states, many members wrote letters to the press and signed them off, North East Branch, SPGB, or alternatively, The Socialist Party.I've got 8 books full of Branch letters, going back to 1981. Wish I had the motivation to put them on disc. By the way, there are not only Party letters but letters we replied to and replies to our letters.
These comment sections on local letters pages are well worth Socialists using and persevering with. Moreover, you would be surprised at the amount of favourable comments on different topics! I'd urge all comrades to give them a go.
The same two-faced, lying, scum sucking paper who are reporting this "non-story", are fully in support of a system, Capitalism, in which 30 to 40000 children "under five", die every day from starvation or directly attributable desease. Where hundreds of millions of our fellows, have no access to clean drinking water, nor sanitaion. Live in slums and are every day exposed to toxins and desease. Whilst I personally, would not have done what the daily worker has done, now it is done, I would not keep this non-story going by mentioning it overmuch. If as much publicity was given to every individual young bairn, dying needlessly, as has been given to "one" 17 year old, the news would be flooded and maybe, just maybe, the eyes closed, ears plugged up members of the working class, who by their apathy, allow the things I have mentioned above, to go on, might just take a closer look and say "enough is enough"!!!
Exactly what I have been saying! In the news, over the last few days, there have been reports that scientists have overlain maps of "sources of shale gas" and "aquifers" in the UK, presumably in an attempt to identify areas where the two do not overlap and give the oil and gas companies the "evidence", to be able to say, "no chance of water table pollution here and so close down the environmental damage argument! If this is indeed the reason for this dual mapping, it would lead a rational mind to conclude that the extraction companies do, in fact, acknowledge the distinct possibility of aquifer contamination, as a result of hydraulic fracturing.
