Comrades, friends, fellow/sister workers, The Socialist Standard Setember 2007 is now online at, http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/homepage.html YFS Matt...
From http://liammacuaid.wordpress.com/2007/08/31/george-galloways-letter-to-respects-national-council/ George Galloway's letter to RESPECT It is clear to...
alan johnstone
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Sep 1, 2007 11:34 pm
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Hi Alan For your possible interest Part 2 of What is Class Struggle Anarchism? Has just started at Anarkismo The Relation Between the Working Class and...
Hi Graham, there are lots of Eco-friendly houses around, but as you are aware most houses are commodities. They are not built for the community, they are built...
Robert Malone
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Sep 3, 2007 2:48 pm
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Hi all esp. Robert M thanks for that RM. Grant Fox kicked the ball sublimely, Sid Going was little "super Sid", John Kirwan danced past defences, Jonah Lomu...
For those unaware a few streets away the head office if the SPGB is a local pub called Bread and Roses , a Workers Beer Company pub . Workers Beer Company was...
alan johnstone
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Sep 3, 2007 6:46 pm
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Dear Robin, Bob Malone's referred to Marx's famous quote : not writing "recipes for the cookships of the future". But I disagree with that for the main part -...
Hi all have a read: http://tinyurl.com/235euo http://tinyurl.com/34puxg http://tinyurl.com/2dwt6s http://tinyurl.com/2fcxls It's an issue that I have covered...
Hi Graham, I hope the All Blacks do make the Final in Paris, for the simple reason that they have played some very interesting rugby with a variety of...
Robert Malone
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Sep 4, 2007 8:56 am
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Hi Brian Thanks for that. To some extent this discussion has gone off in another direction to that which i had intended. For example, some comrades have...
Graham , can i also add the Socialist Banner link to your list http://socialistbanner.blogspot.com/2007/06/africa-bill-gates-charity-no-solution.html It is a...
alan johnstone
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Sep 4, 2007 10:13 am
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silly old me. I thought I had done so Alan! lol :D I'll get my hands messy with my template asap. (Fuck, I hate computer language.) G ... ...
Apologies the proper link for the bio-fuel repoort on Africa should be http://socialistbanner.blogspot.com/2007/06/scramble-for-bio-fuel-in-africa.html alan ...
alan johnstone
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Sep 4, 2007 10:52 am
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Brian: Perhaps a review of Mike Lepore's comparison between free access and labor vouchers might be in order re the question of the distribution of goods in...
I may be getting too old, and not able to keep up with all this planning about who lives where and who gets what. But if I remember correctly, the basis of...
Hi Robin and others. I suppose it goes without saying that free socialism works off the presumption that society would have the technical capacity to produce...
Hi Dave ... people. ... Thats probably the case but besides the point. Im talking about those goods that ARE scarce (which may or may not include houses) in a...
Hi All, especially Graham, A recent book ³the last Oil shock: A survival Guide to the Imminent Extinction of Petroleum Man² by David Strahan discuss the...
Robert Malone
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Sep 5, 2007 10:16 am
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Hi all esp Robert M thanks for the references. One of the annoying things about ethanol biofuel is that the claims made on energy efficiency and non-pollution...
Hi Robin. It is always interesting to hear from you. I am not exactly sure that I understand you correctly, I am not getting at you. I will presume therefore...
Hi all esp. Dave B actually Robin C means scarce in the sense of obviously limited natural resources. A fair point. Put this way there is no theoretical...
Hi Graham OK I will accept that but I would like examples of `use values' that are naturally scarce and cannot be provided theoretically by the application of...
Hi Dave No, in saying that goods are "scarce" I mean simply that there is a shortfall in the supply of said goods in relation to the demand for them. This is...
Hi all a priority of production, as the biofuels caper shows, is producing food and preserving rain forest. Capitalism just marching along making biofuel...
... ================ Robin, Could you give us some examples of "low priority goods"? If we're talking high definition TVs, i-pods, bling etc. If so, someone...
Julian Vein
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Sep 6, 2007 8:20 am
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Hi Dave, The question of scarcity in a socialist society is raised because some people are concerned that people cannot have access to all of the things that...
Robert Malone
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Sep 6, 2007 11:05 am
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Hi Robin and Robert Malone. You rant away Robert, it was a good rant as your `rants' normally are. I don't have as much time now as I would like and may not...
Dear Graham, Oh go-on, be an anarchist for a day, then. Its fun for a day, or two or three.... Friends, being an anarchist for a day, or two or three....etc,...
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