Re: M-TH: Workers Action

2000-06-19 Thread David Welch
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, George Pennefather wrote: What kind of group are or were the WIL? They were Labour party entrists, affiliated with USec I think. They emerged from the WRP after it broke up. --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: M-TH: Workers Action

2000-06-18 Thread David Welch
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, George Pennefather wrote: Does anybody know what group puts out Workers Action? There is a group in Britain called Workers Action. I think they were formerly part of the Workers International League before a messy split. --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: M-TH: List problems

2000-05-15 Thread David Welch
On Mon, 15 May 2000, J.WALKER wrote: But out of interest why are you subscribed twice? To increase the number of subscribers? Its more convenient to have one email address for use at home and one for use at university. --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

M-TH: List problems

2000-05-15 Thread David Welch
Hi, I'm seeing lots of duplicate messages from the marxism-thaxis list with the headers included in the body of the message, so the subject is blank for example. It might a problem at my end but I'm seeing it on both of my emails addresses that are subscribed. On Mon, 15 May 2000, Jim

Re: M-TH: Third Socialist Councillor elected in Britain

2000-05-12 Thread David Welch
On Wed, 10 May 2000, Socialist Party wrote: Would this be the democratic right to stand under the name of a long-time pre-existing party? I think anyone considering voting for either the SPGB or Socialist Party (aka Militant) would be able to tell them apart. What is not democratic is for

Re: M-TH: London Election - Left in a mess

2000-05-05 Thread David Welch
On Fri, 5 May 2000, J.WALKER wrote: My main argument (as I am not keen on just going over the old debates of anti-parliamentarianism) is that the Left in its opposition to New Labour either harks back to a false Golden Age of Old Labour which it cannot attain or cannot see beyond

Re: M-TH: Gysi steps down

2000-04-14 Thread David Welch
Allegedly because he failed to get the congress to agree to "judge in each case whether the should lend support to UN peace-keeping troops", instead the majority argued there should be no support for the UN in any circumstances. I guess that dented the possibility of an alliance with the

Re: M-TH: LSA welcomes Livingstone's decision to stand for major

2000-03-09 Thread David Welch
[From http://www.duntone.demon.co.uk/CPGB/articles/ww99/0617/letters.html] I note with interest the results of the Euro elections: 'Weekly Worker' (CPGB) -1,724; SPGB - 1,510. Specifically, I note that the latter party only stood on one list to achieve a similar share of the vote as garnered

M-TH: LSA welcomes Livingstone's decision to stand for major

2000-03-07 Thread David Welch
[From http://www.londonsocialistalliance.org.uk/.] The London Socialist Alliance welcomes Ken Livingstone's decision to stand as an independent candidate for mayor of London. By doing so, he has given Londoners an alternative at the ballot box. We hope Ken will stand on a socialist and trade

Re: M-TH: Re: Gramsci on the State

2000-01-13 Thread David Welch
Didn't we have this discussion last year? Just because something can't be touched doesn't mean it isn't material (in the properly marxist sense). That said, it's not difficult to share John's hostility to hegemony as a socialist strategy. Look what happened to the British Eurocommunists (or

M-TH: Re: In thru the back door

1999-09-06 Thread David Welch
On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, r.i.p wrote: Just received a mail with this link: http://www.cryptonym.com/hottopics/msft-nsa.html As I understand it, this means that the US National Security Agency has the potential to access any machine using Windows 95/98/NT ! Unlikely or at least there are

M-TH: Re: Sartre

1999-08-12 Thread David Welch
Quite superficial really. I'm surprised the program makers could claim with a straight face that Nietzsche was the first philosopher to imagine life without god. Nor did they make any serious examination of what Heidegger's thought might have inspired his reactionary politics. George

Re: SV: SV: M-TH: Re: Jim's times letter on fascism...

1999-05-02 Thread David Welch
[This post was delayed because it was sent from an address not subscr*bed to the list. Hans Ehrbar.] It seems the British police have arrested an individual for the bombings who they claim was acting alone, the spokesman went out of his way to deny claims that any organised far right group