Just 45 minutes ago I visited Andrew Whitehead's excellent website to snaffle an image of John Burns from the 1880s to accompany this front page article from the April 1906 Socialist Standard and, as an afterthought, I thought I'd check out Andrew's latest posts on his website.
What do I find as his most recent post in 2024? . . . An account of his recent visit to the SPGB's Head Office in Clapham, South London.
Okay, his piece is gently mocking in its tone in places but that's fair enough. If you're going to wrap yourself in a hostility clause for 120 years you can't be too quick to clutch at your pearls if and when someone gives it back to you in kind. And, as someone who's written about the SPGB in the past - I seem to remember a New Statesman article he wrote on Harry Young ('Horatio') in the early 1990s - he knows more about the history of the SPGB than most *cough* 'outsiders'.
And, sadly, he is right about the current health of the SPGB. It has seen better days and it is going through one of the roughest patches in its history but the SPGB - and more importantly its ideas - aren't going to go away any time soon.
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Christ, just noticed the ballot box in the top right hand corner of the banner. Okaaay.
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