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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

    Thursday, January 28, 2010

    Hairstyles and historians

    Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 135

    Dear Friends,

    Welcome to the 135th of our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace.

    We now have 1565 friends!

    Recent blogs:

  • Re-cycling food waste
  • Indian Earthquake: Did it really kill?
  • Money Must Go
  • Coming Events:


    Public Debate between Adam Smith Institute (Eamonn Butler) and the Socialist Party (Richard Headicar).

    Thursday, 4th February, 7.00pm

    Small Hall, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London. WC1.


    Film: Capitalism and Other Kids Stuff

    2pm, Saturday 30th January

    The Workshop 53 Earlham Road, Norwich NR2 3AD


    Radical Film Forum,

    Sundays 6pm - 52 Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UN.

    31st January - Manufacturing Consent (part two)

    Quote for the week:


    "Read the paper - humdrum

    Henley Regatta - page one

    Eat die - ho hum

    Page three - big bum

    Giving a lunatic a loaded gun.

    He walks - others run

    Thirty dead - no fun

    Foreigners feature as figures of fun

    Do something destructive chum

    Sit right down - write a letter to The Sun

    Say... 'Bring back hangin' for everyone'"

    John Cooper Clarke - 'Suspended Sentence'
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    Continuing luck with your MySpace adventures!

    Robert and Piers

    Socialist Party of Great Britain

    Sunday, March 22, 2009

    "In the end, everything is a gag."

    Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain (89)

    Dear Friends,

    Welcome to the 89th of our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace.

    We now have 1466 friends!

    Recent blogs:

  • The trouble with culture
  • Back to no work
  • So that's what's wrong with socialism!
  • Quote for the week:

    War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against each other. Thomas Carlyle, as quoted by Emma Goldman in her essay Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty, 1911.

    Continuing luck with your MySpace adventures!

    Robert and Piers

    Socialist Party of Great Britain

    Wednesday, February 25, 2009

    " . . . no match for natural stupidity."

    Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain (86)

    Dear Friends,

    Welcome to the 86th of our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace.

    We now have 1454 friends!

    Recent blogs:

  • Prejudice and Equality
  • The end of the market
  • Free money for everyone?
  • Quote for the week:

    "A class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increase capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market." Marx and Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848).

    Continuing luck with your MySpace adventures!

    Robert and Piers

    Socialist Party of Great Britain

    Sunday, July 06, 2008

    Close Season Blues

    The Euro Championship spoiled me. I'm missing my daily fix of football so much that I've taken to refreshing the picture below again and again to simulate footballing grace and poise.

    More in the 'Classics in Lego' series can be viewed on Flickr here.

    Further viewing pleasure available here.

    Monday, May 19, 2008

    Denise Mina and Foot Fetishism

    It's amazing what a google alert can sometimes throw your way. There's me - honest - on the look out for the New Yorker's belated review of the Garnethill Trilogy when what I get instead is a series of flickr pics from a photographer in Texas who recently photographed Denise Mina at a book signing.

    Now, with regards to the title of the post, I'm not casting any aspersions on the motives of the photographer: I'm shamelessly going for the brilliant novelist/unhealthy obsession google market.

    I can't be the only person who has Denise Mina on google alert, can I?