GERMAN POLITICAL CULTURE AND SOCIALISM (Zoom)
November 27, 2023
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December 2023 events
Some Socialist Party meetings/talks/discussions are online via Jitsi, and some are in-person. Certain branch and committee meetings are held on Discord. Please contact spgb.discord@worldsocialism.org for instructions on how to join Discord. Our general discussion meetings are held on Zoom. To connect to a Zoom meeting, click https://zoom.us/j/7421974305 (or type the address into your browser address …
November 2023 events
October 26, 2023
Our general discussion meetings are held on Zoom. To connect to a meeting, enter https://zoom.us/j/7421974305 in your browser. Then follow instructions on screen and wait to be admitted to the meeting. WORLD SOCIALIST MOVEMENT ONLINE MEETINGS Sundays at 19.30 (IST) Discord Weekly WSP (India) meeting Sunday 12 November 10.00 (GMT) Zoom Central Online Branch Meeting …
Briefing: Brave New Towns
Since the New Town Acts of 1946 over a score of such towns have been designated in Britain. Its object was “to relieve congestion in the big cities and to provide pleasant and healthy conditions for people who would not have to travel elsewhere to find work”. According to the Official Handbook of the Information …
Science and the British Association
October 19, 2023
The limitations of a society which has outlived its usefulness is shown in every aspect of art, literature, religion and science. Man must live, and whether he be a scientist, factory worker, writer or artist, under Capitalism his labour power becomes a commodity. The factory worker produces things, not because he likes producing those things, …
The Wages of Agricultural Workers
September 12, 2023
Shrewsbury. April 22nd, 1939. To The Editor, THE SOCIALIST STANDARD. Dear Comrade, As one who has been a District Organising Secretary for the National Union of Agricultural Workers for twenty-one years, and have served as a Workers’ representative (officially) on Agricultural Wages Committees covering thirteen counties, I can assure your contributor, T. R. V. Andrews, …
Let’s abolish food banks
July 29, 2023
There are various providers of free or very cheap meals all across the country. They may rely on donations from individuals or companies or they may ‘recycle’ food which would otherwise go to waste. Foodcycle’s answer to the question, what is surplus food is that ‘Surplus food is designated for people to eat but which …
Proper Gander – send in the crowns
May 30, 2023
Both of May’s big events were marked by corny rituals, ridiculous costumes and celebrating a country’s figurehead, with the hype cranked up high. While the Eurovision Song Contest comes around every year, there’s a longer gap between coronations. Over the seven decades since the last one, the reach of the media has grown in ways …
Book reviews – Dawson, English, Michaels/Reed
Radical Enough? Extinction. A Radical History. By Ashley Dawson. OR Books. 2022. 171pp. In this expanded edition of a book first published in 2016, Ashley Dawson provides an excellent and accessible analysis of how human beings have tended to use and abuse the biosphere over the whole of their history and how in particular this …
Cooking the Books 2 – What the market will bear
April 26, 2023
Some people think that businesses can fix at will the price of what they sell. Among them, it seems, is the Governor of the Bank of England. After announcing on 23 March an increase in the Bank rate to 4.25 per cent, Andrew Bailey asked business to ‘please’ not increase their prices. As the headline …