Forum

This is the only copy I possess. (No. 28, Jan 1955.)  I don't know how long this internal discussion SPGB "newspaper" ran for.

This copy discussed relative surplus value, crises a matter concerning Paddington Branch but was mostly concerned with the so-called "Turner affair." It rumbled for a while and Turner eventually left the Party.

Details are available in the issue marking 100 years of the SPGB in 2004, in the article "Getting Splinters."

One of the independently produced pamphlets

Horace Jarvis was an SPGB member. The pamphlet wasn't official.

Apropos Corbyn

Socialist Standard, November 1980.

"Squabbling, back-stabbing, unprincipled: it doesn't matter who wins out, the Labour Party in practice will still uphold capitalism."

And from January 1982, a bit of Jurassic World",with Socdemosaur (Parasiticus moderatus) in battle with Toothess Labosaurus (Capitalist period).

Oldies but Goodies (II)

Oldies but Goodies

I visited Ernst this weekend. He shakes a bit, has difficulty with balance. An old home is calling. At 89, no surprise! He can't manage the steps. This charming lad met the SPGB after he fled his home of Vienna to London, a Jew, around the time of the Anschluss.

I got a huge, heavy suitcase of books and SPGB material this weekend. He would rather have it go to an SPGB'er than a bin or 2nd hand bookshop.

One book was Barltrop's "classic": the Monument.

I ate dinner with him. He told me stories about e.g. Turner and Hardy, two remarkable speakers for the Socialist Party.

Look in the past posts

One feature of my neigh defunct blog is the bit of work I did publishing old SPGB material. Check the blog archive for interesting material on socialism from my party's viewpoint.