Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 151

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Much ado about National Insurance

The 'tesco-isation' of charity

Are you a wage slave?

Quote for the week:

"...the leisure which Socialism above all things aims at obtaining for the worker is also the very thing that breeds desire - desire for beauty, for knowledge, for more abundant life, in short. Once more, that leisure and desire are sure to produce art, and without them nothing but sham art, void of life or reason for existence, can be produced..." William Morris, The Worker’s Share of Art, 1885

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Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 150

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Capitalist Money Madness

Let’s produce for use, not profit

The election: who wins?

Quote for the week:

"An election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods."Ambrose Bierce

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Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 149

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Capitalism must go!

Puppet on a string

Yours for World Socialism II

Quote for the week:

"Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian." Robert Orben

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Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 148

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Yours for World Socialism

Revolution or Reform?

Left Unity

Quote for the week:

"For nearly 40 years we have raised to prominence the idea of the class struggle as the immediate driving force of history, and particularly the class struggle between bourgeois and the proletariat as the great lever of the modern social revolution; ... At the founding of the International, we expressly formulated the battle cry: The emancipation of the working class must be the work of the working class itself." Marx and Engels, Strategy and Tactics of the Class Struggle, 1879.

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Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 147

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Unrealistic alternatives

Trade unionist extraordinary

Democracy – and ‘democracy’

Quote for the week:

"Only by the propaganda of Socialism among the rank and file of the trade unions will they be made capable of understanding their position as wage slaves, and the consequent necessity for the abolition of capitalism, and not of patching it up, as advocated with monotonous persistence by the misleaders we have been dealing with. Having arrived at this understanding, the workers will recognise that their political power must be put to an infinitely better use than that of providing fat jobs for nimble-tongued tricksters, shepherds put over them by their wily masters—the achievement of their own emancipation, to wit. Then the workers will at once wrench themselves free from the strangle-hold of these Labour garroters, and hurl them to perdition together with that system of labour-exploitation of which they are part and parcel." Jack Fitzgerald, Labour Leaders and their Prey, 1909.

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Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 146

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Mass media and mass politics

More pain ahead?

Bigotry - as good as gold

Quote for the week:

"I have continued directing the unpopular fight for the rights of agitation, as director of the American Civil Liberties Union.... I am for socialism, disarmament and ultimately for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class and sole control by those who produce wealth. Communism is, of course, the goal." Roger Nash Baldwin, 1935.

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Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 145

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Working for a different and better world

Election Madness

How would you like your capitalism served?

Quote for the week:

"All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy." Marx, Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, 1843

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Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 144

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The Massacre of Fruit

The Meaning of Social Revolution

Modern Technology and Socialism

Quote for the week:

"These bastards who run our country are a bunch of conniving, thieving, smug pricks who need to be brought down and removed and replaced with a whole new system that we control." Michael Moore, 2003, Dude, where's my country?

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Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 143

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Living without money

Empty Hope

Imagine

Quote for the week:

"I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. " Eugene Debs, 1855 - 1926

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Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 142

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Tony Blair and the Chilcot inquiry

What is Real Democracy and How Do We Get It?

What’s Wrong with Using Parliament?

Quote for the week:

"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people." Oscar Wilde (attributed)

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Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 141

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An inconvenient future

Eat shit and die!

Capitalism breeds inequality

Quote for the week:

"Under private property ... Each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own selfish need. The increase in the quantity of objects is therefore accompanied by an extension of the realm of the alien powers to which man is subjected, and every new product represents a new potentiality of mutual swindling and mutual plundering." Marx, Human Requirements and Division of Labour, 1844.

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Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 140

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The Price of Everything

Thicker than water?

Ethics

Quote for the week:

"The founders [of the United Nations] sought to replace a world at war with a world of civilized order. They hoped that a world of relentless conflict would give way to a new era, one where freedom from violence prevailed…. But the awful truth is that the use of violence for political gain has become more, not less, widespread in the last decade." Ronald Reagan, 26 Sept 1983.

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Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 139

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Building a future

Free Trade, Fair Trade or No Trade?

Danger: capitalism at work

Quote for the week:

"As capitalist, he is only capital personified. His soul is the soul of capital. But capital has one single life impulse, the tendency to create value and surplus-value, to make its constant factor, the means of production, absorb the greatest possible amount of surplus-labour. Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks."

Marx, Capital, Volume I, Chapter 10, 1867.

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Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 138

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What is common ownership?

The social revolution

America and the S-word

Quote for the week:

"The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are." H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956.

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Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 137

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The market versus cooperation

Who needs money?

Who bailed out the bankers?

Quote for the week:

"The rich require an abundant supply of the poor."

Voltaire.

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Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 136

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Beyond Capitalism

“All this Hard Graft no Longer Makes Sense”

Demand the Impossible

Quote for the week:

"To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay."

George Orwell, Inside The Whale, 1940.

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Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 135

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Re-cycling food waste

Indian Earthquake: Did it really kill?

Money Must Go

Quote for the week:

"Read the paper - humdrum

Henley Regatta - page one

Eat die - ho hum

Page three - big bum

Giving a lunatic a loaded gun.

He walks - others run

Thirty dead - no fun

Foreigners feature as figures of fun

Do something destructive chum

Sit right down - write a letter to The Sun

Say... 'Bring back hangin' for everyone'"

John Cooper Clarke - 'Suspended Sentence'

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Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 134

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Insiders and others

Top of the pop charts

Haiti - An Unnatural disaster

Quote for the week:

"A philosopher produces ideas, a poet poems, a clergyman sermons, a professor compendia and so on. A criminal produces crimes. If we take a closer look at the connection between this latter branch of production and society as a whole, we shall rid ourselves of many prejudices. The criminal produces not only crimes but also criminal law, and with this also the professor who gives lectures on criminal law and in addition to this the inevitable compendium in which this same professor throws his lectures onto the general market as “commodities”." Marx, Theories of Surplus Value, 1861.

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Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 133

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Cab ride to capitalism

Masters of War

Pitiful Copenhagen

Quote for the week:

"You have the right to free Speech

As long as

You're not dumb enough to actually try it"

The Clash, Know Your Rights, 1982.

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Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 132

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Labour and the reform of capitalism

Government or democracy?

Who's going to clean the sewers?

Quote for the week:

"Politicians hide themselves away. They only started the war. Why should they go out into a fight?... They leave that all to the poor." Black Sabbath, War Pigs, 1970.

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