Showing posts with label Jack Fitzgerald. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jack Fitzgerald. Show all posts

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

    Thursday, August 28, 2008

    A rapid share of old socialist articles

    The 'Isn't It About Time We Had Socialism?' blog is no more.

    Not sure what happened but it appears that Graham - the Gillingham supporting death metalist SPGBer living in Denmark - (who's not to be confused with Rob, the vegan death metalist SPGBer living in Norway) decided that the blog couldn't hang around any longer for the revolution bus* to fill up.

    However, not being a comrade to rest on his blogging laurels, Graham has kick-started the Ragged Trousered Philanthropist blog to take its place.

    A first glance it looks like death to death metal as this blog is geared more towards reprints of old articles and pamphlets from the SPGB *cough* canon. I'm pretty sure that the majority of the articles are appearing on the web for the first time, and that it's Graham who has done most of the transcribing. So, kudos to him for performing the public service:

    Of course, you should check out the blog for yourself but these are the articles that caught my eye:

  • From the July 1970 Socialist Standard A write up of a debate between the SPGB and the International Socialists
  • From the April 1969 Socialist Standard Marx and Engels and the 'Collapse' of Capitalism
  • 5 part article from the Socialist Standard in early 1979 How Capitalism Works
  • From the June 1928 Socialist Standard A vintage debate between the SPGB (Jack Fitzgerald) and the ILP (James Maxton)
  • The SPGB 1978 introductory pamphlet, Questions of the Day
  • From the January 1969 Socialist Standard Rosa Luxemburg and the Collapse of Capitalism
  • From the October 1923 Socialist Standard Jingo Communists
  • There's a lot more to check out on his blog, so feel free to click on the link.

    A lonely footnote

    *If you can find that Peter Rigg's cartoon online, you're a better googler than me.

    Wednesday, October 17, 2007

    I'd Rather Jack

    Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain (16)

    Dear Friends,

    Welcome to the 16th of our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace.

    We now have 872 friends!

    Recent blogs:

  • Punk rock's silver jubilee
  • Opportunity cost
  • Freegans
  • This week's top quote:

    ""It is for the working class to study and realise that while one section of the community—the capitalist class—own the means of life of the whole community, the remainder of the community are slaves to that section. Whatever label a political party or person may wear—whether Conservative, Liberal, Radical, Reform, Labour or any other—the one question for the working-class is "do they stand for the retention of a system allowing a small section of Society to exploit the other, the working class"? If so, no matter, with what qualification or modification, if any, then they are necessarily and inevitably the enemy of the exploited and must be so branded. Fine promises avail them nothing. In the words of Wendell Phillips, "WE NEVER FORGET", but keeping the facts clearly in front of our fellow workers' eyes march steadily to the goal of our Emancipation." Jack Fitzgerald (SPGB), 1906.

    Continuing luck with your MySpace adventures!


    Robert and Piers

    Socialist Party of Great Britain