How to get to Head Office (1935)

Party News from the October 1935 issue of the Socialist Standard

Great Dover Street is a turning out of Borough High Street, near Borough (Underground) Station. The station it on the line from Morden to Hampstead and Highgate, and lies between the Bank Station and Elephant and Castle.

Blogger's Note:

I include this wee snippet as a wee SPGB in-joke as Barltrop mentions in The Monument that some Party members were up in arms in at the time when the Party decided to move to Great Dover Street in South East London. It was considered by some as the backwoods of London.

Adam and the Stats

Before I plough on with digitizing more July Socialist Standards from yesteryear, I just spotted this wee landmark figure in the label section of the blog:

A thousand posts on the blog concerning longstanding SPGB member Adam Buick. Articles, book reviews, correspondence and party activity over seven decades. That's some going and I'm generous enough to acknowledge that Adam put in more work on attaining that figure than I did. It's not even the full picture. It doesn't even include all the unsigned editorials and columns from Adam down the years. (Cooking the Books, I'm looking at you.)

Wait up, you're looking at the measly figure of 11 entries for 'Activism', aren't you. Those age old jokes about the SPGB are bubbling to the surface in your consciousness right now, I can tell.  Sorry, it's not that sort  'Activism'. Click on the link if you don't believe me.

On the subject of labels on the blog, you're thinking 'What are the most popular labels on the blog?' I'm ahead of you. I've got another jpeg for that:

You're still thinking about those 11 entries for 'Activism', aren't you?

'Was it something that we said scanned?'

MICHAEL: Hey, did you hear him making fun of you earlier?

ALAN: I did, Michael, but as Oscar Wilde said, ‘There’s only one thing worse than being talked about …’

MICHAEL: Cancer.

ALAN: No, not being talked about.

MICHAEL (Sickened): What, Oscar Wilde said not being talked about was worse than cancer?

ALAN: Yes, yes. I think he was at a party. Probably just being a gay show-off.

(from Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa.)

From the agenda for the SPGB's 2023 Autumn Delegate Meeting:

How's that for a kick in the knackers? No words. Actually, a few: To paraphrase Jean-Paul Sartre, 'Hell is other Party members . . .'