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Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 113

Dear Friends,

Welcome to the 113th of our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace.

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Quote for the week:

" .....a schoolmaster is a productive labourer when, in addition to belabouring the heads of his scholars, he works like a horse to enrich the school proprietor. That the latter has laid out his capital in a teaching factory, instead of in a sausage factory, does not alter the relation... " Marx, Capital, Volume I, Chapter 16, (1867).

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> Robert and Piers

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World Cup Finals: First Time Was A Tragedy, This Time?

The 'Only Living SPGBer in Aarhus', otherwise known as Gray, is no doubt currently having a nervous run up to this minor game that will be taking place later today. Who knows, maybe these last few days he's been waking in a cold sweat thinking about the little matter of this recent encounter between England and South Africa?

Well, Gray, if it's any comfort, maybe you can draw comparisons and hope from history with these two results from over fifty years ago.

Granted the better team on that occasion lost in the final and, five decades later, we are still talking about the great team of Puskas, Czibor, Kocsis; Hidegkuti, whilst the eventual winners nary get a mention outside their own households but as you're in the grips of your very own version of 'Ninety-Minute-Nationalism' (Rugby's eighty minutes of stop-start play, right?), I'll cut you some slack this one time.

Wishing you well on a day that, as a socialist who has also been known to succumb to bouts of N-M-N, I've never had to go through, and (probably) never will.