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Showing posts with label MySpace SPGB. Show all posts

Friday, June 25, 2010

'Face like a slapped arse'

Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 155

Dear Friends,

Welcome to the 155th of our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace.

We now have 1570 friends!

Recent blogs:

  • Human Nature and Human Behaviour
  • Socialism in the 21st Century?
  • How capitalism moves
  • Quote for the week:

    "The materialistic. realistic, and collectivist conception of freedom, as opposed to the idealistic, is this: Man becomes conscious of himself and his humanity only in society and only by the collective action of the whole society. He frees himself from the yoke of external nature only by collective and social labor, which alone can transform the earth into an abode favorable to the development of humanity. Without such material emancipation the intellectual and moral emancipation of the individual is impossible." Mikhail Bakunin, Man, Society, and Freedom, 1871.

    Continuing luck with your MySpace adventures!

    Robert and Piers

    Socialist Party of Great Britain

    Tuesday, June 22, 2010

    The Last Word

    Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 154

    Dear Friends,

    Welcome to the 154th of our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace.

    We now have 1573 friends!

    Recent blogs:

  • Electoral Reform
  • What’s a 'Living Wage'?
  • The race to the bottom
  • Quote for the week:

    "Folks, it's time to evolve. That's why we're troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything's failing? It's because, um - they're no longer relevant. We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right? There's another 90 percent of our brains that we have to illuminate"
    Bill Hicks
    , Filling up the hump, 1993.

    Continuing luck with your MySpace adventures!

    Robert and Piers

    Socialist Party of Great Britain

    Saturday, June 19, 2010

    The shite in my inbox

    Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 153

    Dear Friends,
    Welcome to the 152nd our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace.

    We now have 1575 friends!

    Recent blogs:

  • Idealism and materialism
  • The Class Struggle in Soviet Russia
  • What’s Wrong with Using Parliament?
  • Quote for the week:

    "The materialist conception of history starts from the proposition that the production of the means to support human life and, next to production, the exchange of things produced, is the basis of all social structure; that in every society that has appeared in history, the manner in which wealth is distributed and society divided into classes or orders is dependent upon what is produced, how it is produced, and how the products are exchanged. From this point of view, the final causes of all social changes and political revolutions are to be sought, not in men’s brains, not in men’s better insights into eternal truth and justice, but in changes in the modes of production and exchange." Engels, Socialism: Utopian & Scientific, 1880.

    Continuing luck with your MySpace adventures!

    Robert and Piers

    Socialist Party of Great Britain

    Tuesday, June 08, 2010

    Booker brooks no other

    Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 152

    Dear Friends,

    Welcome to the 152nd our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace.

    We now have 1575 friends!

    Recent blogs:

  • Parliament and the Army: The Curragh 'Mutiny'
  • Ethics and the class struggle
  • Red or Yellow?
  • Quote for the week:

    "From time immemorial they hypocritically repeat; all men are equal; and from time immemorial the most degrading and monstrous inequality insolently weighs upon the human race. As long as there have been human societies the most beautiful of humanity’s rights is recognized without contradiction, but was only able to be put in practice one time: equality was nothing but a beautiful and sterile legal fiction. And now that it is called for with an even stronger voice we are answered: be quiet, you wretches! Real equality is nothing but a chimera; be satisfied with conditional equality; you’re all equal before the law. What more do you want, filthy rabble? Legislators, you who hold power, rich landowners, it is now your turn to listen." Gracchus Babeuf and the Conspiracy of the Equals, Manifesto of the Equals, 1796.

    Continuing luck with your MySpace adventures!

    Robert and Piers

    Socialist Party of Great Britain

    Friday, June 04, 2010

    Ticking along

    Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 151

    Dear Friends,

    Welcome to the 151st our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace.

    We now have 1578 friends!

    Recent blogs:

  • Much ado about National Insurance
  • The 'tesco-isation' of charity
  • Are you a wage slave?
  • Quote for the week:

    "...the leisure which Socialism above all things aims at obtaining for the worker is also the very thing that breeds desire - desire for beauty, for knowledge, for more abundant life, in short. Once more, that leisure and desire are sure to produce art, and without them nothing but sham art, void of life or reason for existence, can be produced..." William Morris, The Worker’s Share of Art, 1885

    Continuing luck with your MySpace adventures!

    Robert and Piers

    Socialist Party of Great Britain

    Tuesday, May 18, 2010

    Madcap Mensheviks

    Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 150

    Dear Friends,

    Welcome to the 150th our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace.

    We now have 1571 friends!

    Recent blogs:

  • Capitalist Money Madness
  • Let’s produce for use, not profit
  • The election: who wins?
  • Quote for the week:

    "An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods."Ambrose Bierce

    Continuing luck with your MySpace adventures!

    Robert and Piers

    Socialist Party of Great Britain

    Tuesday, May 11, 2010

    Labour MPs line up to vote for electoral reform Liberal Democrat MPs enter a coalition with the Tories

    Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 149

    Dear Friends,

    Welcome to the 149th our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace.

    We now have 1569 friends!

    Recent blogs:

  • Capitalism must go!
  • Puppet on a string
  • Yours for World Socialism II
  • Quote for the week:

    "Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian." Robert Orben

    Continuing luck with your MySpace adventures!

    Robert and Piers

    Socialist Party of Great Britain

    Thursday, May 06, 2010

    Insert random pic in the left hand corner

    Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 148

    Dear Friends,

    Welcome to the 148th our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace.

    We now have 1569 friends!

    Recent blogs:

  • Yours for World Socialism
  • Revolution or Reform?
  • Left Unity
  • Quote for the week:

    "For nearly 40 years we have raised to prominence the idea of the class struggle as the immediate driving force of history, and particularly the class struggle between bourgeois and the proletariat as the great lever of the modern social revolution; ... At the founding of the International, we expressly formulated the battle cry: The emancipation of the working class must be the work of the working class itself." Marx and Engels, Strategy and Tactics of the Class Struggle, 1879.

    Continuing luck with your MySpace adventures!

    Robert and Piers

    Socialist Party of Great Britain

    Thursday, April 22, 2010

    General Election latest: 'Clegg panics as the Lib Dems reach new heights in the opinion polls.

    Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 147

    Dear Friends,

    Welcome to the 147th our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace.

    We now have 1568 friends!

    Recent blogs:

  • Unrealistic alternatives
  • Trade unionist extraordinary
  • Democracy – and ‘democracy’
  • Quote for the week:

    "Only by the propaganda of Socialism among the rank and file of the trade unions will they be made capable of understanding their position as wage slaves, and the consequent necessity for the abolition of capitalism, and not of patching it up, as advocated with monotonous persistence by the misleaders we have been dealing with. Having arrived at this understanding, the workers will recognise that their political power must be put to an infinitely better use than that of providing fat jobs for nimble-tongued tricksters, shepherds put over them by their wily masters—the achievement of their own emancipation, to wit. Then the workers will at once wrench themselves free from the strangle-hold of these Labour garroters, and hurl them to perdition together with that system of labour-exploitation of which they are part and parcel." Jack Fitzgerald, Labour Leaders and their Prey, 1909.

    Continuing luck with your MySpace adventures!
    Robert and Piers

    Socialist Party of Great Britain

    Monday, April 19, 2010

    And on the seventh day, sauté your unsold copies of Newsline

    Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 146

    Dear Friends,

    Welcome to the 146th our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace.

    We now have 1567 friends!

    Recent blogs:

  • Mass media and mass politics
  • More pain ahead?
  • Bigotry - as good as gold
  • Quote for the week:

    "I have continued directing the unpopular fight for the rights of agitation, as director of the American Civil Liberties Union.... I am for socialism, disarmament and ultimately for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class and sole control by those who produce wealth. Communism is, of course, the goal." Roger Nash Baldwin, 1935.

    Continuing luck with your MySpace adventures!
    Robert and Piers

    Socialist Party of Great Britain

    Sunday, April 11, 2010

    "Click on the links or I drop the doll!"

    Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 145

    Dear Friends,

    Welcome to the 145th our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace.

    We now have 1565 friends!

    Recent blogs:

  • Working for a different and better world
  • Election Madness
  • How would you like your capitalism served?

  • Coming Events,

    all open to the public:


    Can politicians save the planet?

    - Election Forum with Frank Simpkins, Vincent Otter, Glenn Morris and Danny Lambert.
    Saturday 17 April, 6.00pm

    The Socialist Party, 52 Clapham High St, London SW4 7UN.


    The Election: which way to vote?

    Saturday 17 April, 1pm - 4pm

    Room 7, City Library,

    33 New Bridge Street, Newcastle, NE1 8AX (two minutes walk from Monument Metro)


    The Election: what's wrong with politics?

    - Speaker: Adam Buick

    Tuesday 20 April, 8pm

    Committee Room, Chiswick Town Hall,

    Heathfield Terrace, London W4.


    Elections: do they have to be like this?

    Saturday 24 April, 1pm - 4pm

    Albert Room, Victoria Hotel,

    Great George St, Leeds, LS1 3DL


    Discussion on Poverty

    Monday 26 April, 8.30 pm

    Unicorn,

    Church Street, Manchester City Centre

    Informal chat / branch business

    Saturday, 8th May, 12pm - 4pm

    Quebec Tavern, 93-97 Quebec Road,

    Norwich NR1 4HY


    Capitalism isn't working for you - is there an alternative?

    Saturday 8th May from 1pm to 5pm

    Community Central Halls,

    304 Maryhill Road, Glasgow

    (During the afternoon free light refreshments will be available.)

    1pm The Basic Cause of Present Day Problems, Vic Vanni (Glasgow)

    2.15pm The Failure of Reformist Solutions, John Cumming (Glasgow)

    3.35pm
    The Socialist Alternative, Paul Bennett (Manchester)


    Future Visions - The Socialist Party Summer School
    23rd - 25th July, Fircroft College, Birmingham.

    Quote for the week:

    "All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy." Marx, Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, 1843

    Continuing luck with your MySpace adventures!

    Robert and Piers

    Socialist Party of Great Britain

    Friday, April 02, 2010

    I need this

    Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 144

    Dear Friends,

    Welcome to the 144th of our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace.

    We now have 1565 friends!

    Recent blogs:

  • The Massacre of Fruit
  • The Meaning of Social Revolution
  • Modern Technology and Socialism
  • Quote for the week:

    "These bastards who run our country are a bunch of conniving, thieving, smug pricks who need to be brought down and removed and replaced with a whole new system that we control." Michael Moore, 2003, Dude, where's my country?

    Continuing luck with your MySpace adventures!

    Robert and Piers

    Socialist Party of Great Britain

    Thursday, March 25, 2010

    Subway 37

    Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 143

    Dear Friends,

    Welcome to the 143rd of our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace.

    We now have 1562 friends!

    Recent blogs:

  • Living without money
  • Empty Hope
  • Imagine
  • Quote for the week:

    "I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. " Eugene Debs, 1855 - 1926

    Continuing luck with your MySpace adventures!

    Robert and Piers

    Socialist Party of Great Britain

    Wednesday, March 17, 2010

    Instead of seven pints of Murphys

    Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 142

    Dear Friends,

    Welcome to the 142nd of our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace.

    We now have 1564 friends!

    Recent blogs:

  • Tony Blair and the Chilcot inquiry
  • What is Real Democracy and How Do We Get It?
  • What’s Wrong with Using Parliament?
  • Quote for the week:

    "Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people." Oscar Wilde (attributed)

    Continuing luck with your MySpace adventures!

    Robert and Piers

    Socialist Party of Great Britain

    Wednesday, March 10, 2010

    'Albert and Doris hadn't been to a branch meeting for a couple of years.'

    Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 141

    Dear Friends,

    Welcome to the 141st of our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace.

    We now have 1565 friends!

    Recent blogs:

  • An inconvenient future
  • Eat shit and die!
  • Capitalism breeds inequality
  • Coming Events, all open to the public:


    Sunday Evening Film Programme


    6pm at 52 Clapham High St, SW4, London

    14 March - Comrades (part 2)


    Norwich Radical Film Forum

    2pm at The Workshop, 53 Earlham Road, Norwich NR1 3SP

    20 March - Zeitgeist III


    The Origins of the Socialist Party’s Declaration of Principles.

    22 March, 8.30pm,

    Unicorn, Church Street, Manchester City Centre.


    The Road to Socialism - Kropotkin, Morris and Marx,

    Forum with Brian Morris (Author of “Kropotkin: The Politics Of Community” and “Bakunin: The Philosophy Of Freedom”) and Adam Buick (Co-Author of “Marxian Economics and Globalization” and “State Capitalism:The Wages System under New Management”).

    Saturday, 27 March, 4.00pm,

    52 Clapham High St, London SW4.


    Future Visions - The Socialist Party Summer School

    23rd - 25th July, Fircroft College, Birmingham.

    Quote for the week:

    "Under private property ... Each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own selfish need. The increase in the quantity of objects is therefore accompanied by an extension of the realm of the alien powers to which man is subjected, and every new product represents a new potentiality of mutual swindling and mutual plundering." Marx, Human Requirements and Division of Labour, 1844.

    Continuing luck with your MySpace adventures!

    Robert and Piers

    Socialist Party of Great Britain

    Wednesday, March 03, 2010

    "No, we're not the bastard TUSC!"

    Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 140

    Dear Friends,

    Welcome to the 140th of our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace.

    We now have 1562 friends!

    Recent blogs:

  • The Price of Everything
  • Thicker than water?
  • Ethics
  • Quote for the week:

    "The founders [of the United Nations] sought to replace a world at war with a world of civilized order. They hoped that a world of relentless conflict would give way to a new era, one where freedom from violence prevailed…. But the awful truth is that the use of violence for political gain has become more, not less, widespread in the last decade." Ronald Reagan, 26 Sept 1983.

    Continuing luck with your MySpace adventures!

    Robert and Piers

    Socialist Party of Great Britain

    Wednesday, February 24, 2010

    'Celtic go 70s retro with the unveiling of their 2010/2011 tracksuit range.'

    Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 139

    Dear Friends,

    Welcome to the 139th of our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace.

    We now have 1562 friends!

    Recent blogs:

  • Building a future
  • Free Trade, Fair Trade or No Trade?
  • Danger: capitalism at work
  • Quote for the week:

    "As capitalist, he is only capital personified. His soul is the soul of capital. But capital has one single life impulse, the tendency to create value and surplus-value, to make its constant factor, the means of production, absorb the greatest possible amount of surplus-labour. Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks."

    Continuing luck with your MySpace adventures!

    Robert and Piers

    Socialist Party of Great Britain

    Wednesday, February 17, 2010

    Trenchcoat Wankers

    Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 138

    Dear Friends,

    Welcome to the 138th of our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace.

    We now have 1564 friends!

    Recent blogs:

  • What is common ownership?
  • The social revolution
  • America and the S-word
  • Quote for the week:

    "The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are." H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956.

    Continuing luck with your MySpace adventures!

    Robert and Piers

    Socialist Party of Great Britain

    Wednesday, February 10, 2010

    The wolf was at the door

    Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 137

    Dear Friends,

    Welcome to the 137th of our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace.

    We now have 1565 friends!

    Recent blogs:

  • The market versus cooperation
  • Who needs money?
  • Who bailed out the bankers?
  • Coming Events:


    Discussion on the Labour Party

    Monday 22 February, 8.30pm

    Unicorn, Church Street, Manchester City Centre


    Sunday Evening Film Programme
    6pm at 52 Clapham High St, SW4, London

    14 February - Why We Fight

    28 February - Comrades (part 1)

    14 March - Comrades (part 2)


    Norwich Radical Film Forum

    2pm at The Workshop,

    53 Earlham Road, Norwich NR1 3SP

    27 February - The Story of Stuff + Manufacturing Consent

    20 March - Zeitgeist III

    Quote for the week:

    "The rich require an abundant supply of the poor."

    Voltaire.

    Continuing luck with your MySpace adventures!

    Robert and Piers

    Socialist Party of Great Britain

    Wednesday, February 03, 2010

    'No luck with the woodchuck?'

    Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 136

    Dear Friends,

    Welcome to the 136th of our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace.

    We now have 1562 friends!

    Recent blogs:

  • Beyond Capitalism
  • “All this Hard Graft no Longer Makes Sense”
  • Demand the Impossible
  • Quote for the week:

    "To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay."

    George Orwell, Inside The Whale, 1940.

    Continuing luck with your MySpace adventures!

    Robert and Piers

    Socialist Party of Great Britain

    (Hat tip to Matteo Scalera for the image.)