tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903281042242791813.post5904437082994048460..comments2024-03-26T15:02:07.811-04:00Comments on Socialist Standard Past & Present: Bebel’s Answer to Jaurès on “Political Tactics”. (1904)Imposs1904http://www.blogger.com/profile/04043116442576404667noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6903281042242791813.post-90775989468448815222020-02-23T13:05:01.587-05:002020-02-23T13:05:01.587-05:00Hat tip to ALB for originally scanning this in.
T...Hat tip to ALB for originally scanning this in.<br /><br />The translator, P. J. Tobin, was a member of the Islington Branch of the SPGB from August 1904 until he resigned from the SPGB in March 1906. (Presumably as part of the mass resignations surrounding the 'Islington Dispute'.<br /><br />Additional comments by ALB:<br /><br /><i>". . . P J Tobin who translated the <a href="https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2020/02/women-workers-in-japan-1904.html" rel="nofollow">Japan article</a> [and this article] was for a while secretary of Islington branch (see, eg, March 1905 issue) where he gives as his name Padraig Ua Toibin. This suggests that he was an Irish-speaker who would have come over with Con Lehane from the ISRP (and presumably left with him). I read somewhere, I think in some history of the ISRP, that he later emigrated to Latin America where he worked as a translator . . ."</i><br /><br />The IRSP was the Irish Republican Socialist Party. There were a few SPGBers who were originally in the IRSP, including Tobin, Con Lehane and Valentine McEntee (who ended up as a Labour MP), and a few others who were probably lost to the mists of time. All contemporaries of Connolly, who himself was part of the impossibilist revolt within the Social Democratic Federation.Imposs1904https://www.blogger.com/profile/04043116442576404667noreply@blogger.com