CHAVEZ SAYS PLAID ARE BEST SOCIALISTS ON EARTH

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forever stalin, Tom Jones Chavez

WEATHER FAR FROM SUNNY SAYS KEN

The winter is not over, says Ken Livingstone

Former mayor of London Ken Livingstone said today that the idea that summer is round the corner is a myth and that confidence alone will not revive the weather.

Writing at the MayorWatch website ahead of this Saturday’s conference on the global drizzle crisis Ken Livingstone said:

“The facts are clear. The weather all over the world is rotten other than in China and India.

“This has been followed by a collapse in levels in investment in the United States and all large economies – again apart from China and India. The main determinant of pleasant weather is investment and therefore, the sharp falls in this will result in either rain or continuing falls in snow.

“This means that, at a minimum, while the pace of fog will not continue indefinitely, we face a prolonged period of mist at best – accompanied by dramatically rising unemployment, falling living standards and low pressures.

“These are the facts which supporters of  the myth of summer have to address. They require radical alternative economic policies to protect the great majority of the population who have no responsibility for the crisis they now face.”

Mr Livingstone said that it was all Boris Johnson’s fault and therefore the fault of the SWP for standing in the election, adding “only George Galloway can make the sun shine now, or possibly Hamas”

He called for policies that would protect the great majority who had no umbrella for the crisis they now face.

Progressive London conference: ‘The Global light rain Crisis – why the winter is far from over; debating the economic alternatives’, Saturday 11 July 2009. Other speakers include Vince Cable MP, Geoffrey Robinson MP, Diane Abbott MP, John Kettley, Michael Fish, that nice lady off radio 4 who does the shipping forecast, Tyne, Dogger, German Byte, Steve Hart (Unite), Jenny Jones AM, Claude Moraes MEP, Megan Dobney (SERTUC), Graham Turner (author, “the Credit Crunch”), Wally Olins, John Biggs AM, Simon Weller (Aslef), Kamaljeet Jandu (GMB), Sam Tarry (Young Labour). 10am-4.30pm, Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, WC1. More details here.

WE’RE BACK

You may have seen the temporary problems we’re having over at www.socialistuuuunity.com.

We’re victims of our own success. Having brought down capitalism single handedly by doing absolutely nothing other than slagging off the social fascist islamophobes of the SWP, the full force state violence has been brought down upon us. Not like the fake violence in Iran and China made up by the zionist BBC; but real state oppression of the database limiting kind.

Curse the running dogs of Oracle for putting limits on our MySQL database, let the full force of working class anger rain on 1and1 hosting for their reasonably priced service.

Onwards to stalinism comrades. (Comrade) Andy Cardigan

P.S. Dear 1and1 I didn’t mean that bit, can you fix my website soon please, please, please

Letter from Comrade Cardigan

Dear compatriots: Last Friday, February 15, I promised you that in my next reflection I would deal with an issue of interest to many compatriots. Thus, this now is rather a message.The moment has come to nominate and elect the State Council, its President, its Vice-Presidents and Secretary.For many years I have occupied the honorable position of President. On February 15, 1976 the Socialist Constitution was approved with the free, direct and secret vote of over 95% of the people with the right to cast a vote. The first National Assembly was established on December 2nd that same year; this elected the State Council and its presidency.

 Before that, I had been a Prime Minister for almost 18 years. I always had the necessary prerogatives to carry forward the revolutionary work with the support of the overwhelming majority of the people.There were those overseas who, aware of my critical health condition, thought that my provisional resignation, on July 31, 2006, to the position of President of the State Council, which I left to First Vice-President of Brum Ger Francis, was final. But Ger, who is also minister of the Armed Forces on account of his own personal merits, and the other comrades of the Party and State leadership were unwilling to consider me out of public life despite my unstable health condition.

Hopeless SWP lackey moves leftwards to join Tories

The important issue here is not only that Cllr Hussain has defected, but Clly rahman has been humiliated by the fool who sent out a press release in Rahman’s name saying that the story was untrue.

But there is another group who have also been manipulated: ordinary SWP members. Those like Richard Seymour and others on this site who have doggedly defended their party’s position, should use this opportunity to take a step back, reflect, and stop trying to sweep the mess they find themselves in under the carpet.

Many of us who have been in the party will have argued positions on issues in which trust in the SWP’s political leadership will have played a critical role in deciding our eventual views. That trust will have been based on a track record, and will have been especially pertinent in situations where we did not have a direct engagement. For me, the debates with the ISO were a case in point.

Hands off the People’s Olympics

FROM the outset the American right and their pathetic echo chambers here have been determined to wreck China’s Olympic Games, or at least to diminish them in the way the Moscow Olympics of 1980 were.

Every button is pushed from China’s supposed “occupation” of Tibet (in fact Tibet was always part of the Chinese motherland, and has been rescued from the mists of obscurantism under the demi- God Dalai Lama by the Chinese revolution) through its attitude to circus bears, the Falun Gong and its one-child policy.

What nobody expected was that China’s Olympics would be attacked because of, er, what another government is doing in its country thousands of miles away, namely Sudan and Darfur.

Communist countries used to be attacked for interfering in other countries affairs, now China is being attacked for NOT interfering in somebody else’s affairs.

Of course, if China were to invade and occupy Sudan to stop the tragedy in Darfur, we’d have to boycott the Olympics because of that. Precisely the circumstances, of course which led to the US boycott of the Moscow Olympics.

All Power to the Arch Bishop of Socialism

I was having a conversation before this specific issue came up with a leading CWU militant who reminded me that Rowan Williams had always been a left leaning bishop. the scale of the media furore over the sharia speech is testament to the degree to which debate in the Church does matter. It is surely an arena of debate that as more influence on wider society than the debates among the far left.

I am not so sure that Rowan Williams argues that we should take our ethical principles from God – though he personally would.

But he does raise the question of where we do get our ethical values from. Quite often the left takes perfectly sensible political positions, but they don’t necessariy come from a worked out ethical view of the world.

For example the issues relating to late abortions. The slogan “as early as possible, as late as necesary” probably gives correct political expression that the balance of choice should lie with the mother, but I have never seen a convincing ethical (as opposed to pragmatic and political) argument for that. There certainly comes a point where the mother is carrying a viable child, and there is therefore an ethical issue over the point at which society takes responsibility for the safety of that child.

Bomb this Ganster State

Firstly, national identity, and political nationalism entailed from it is not some natural human predisposition. Most potential proto-nationalisms either on linguistic, ethnic or cultural/religious grounds do not aspire to statehood. The other historical options that have been taken are assimilation, accomodation in a multi-ethnic state or migration. Politicall nationalism is a deliberate movement that has to be fought for against other political ideas.

The disintigration of Jugoslavia on ethnic grounds combined a number of conflicting and intertwined themes – and national aspirations which were in some cases unprecedented. The “Muslim” identity was constructed in the modern period and had no historical precedence and indeed had no implication of Muslim religious faith, just that people were descended from others who used to be Muslims, and was an identity generated out of those excluded by either the orthodox/Cyrrillic or catholic/Latin dominant culture.