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Socialist Standard November 2014 1 socialist Contact Details SPGB Media: [email protected] UK BRANCHES & CONTACTS Frankfi eld, Cork. Tel: 021 4896427. Email: [email protected] LONDON Newtownabbey : Nigel McCullough. standard North London branch . Meets 3rd Tues 8pm Tel: 028 90852062. at Torriano Meeting House, 99 Torriano Ave, SCOTLAND NW5 2RX Edinburgh branch . Meets1st Thur. 7.00- Contact: [email protected] or 020 9.00pm. The Quaker Hall, Victoria Terrace NOVEMBER 2014 7609 0983 (above Victoria Street), Edinburgh. South London branch . Meets 1st Tues. J. Moir. Tel: 0131 440 0995. 7.00pm. Head Offi ce. 52 Clapham High St, [email protected] Branch SW4 7UN. Tel: 020 7622 3811 website: contents West London branch . Meets 1st & 3rd Tues. http://geocities.com/edinburghbranch/ 8pm. Chiswick Town Hall, Heathfi eld Terrace Glasgow branch . Meets 3rd Wednesday of (corner Sutton Court Rd), W4. Corres: 51 each month at 8pm in Community Central FEATURES Gayford Road, London W12 9BY. Tel: 020 Halls, 304 Maryhill Road, Glasgow. Peter 8740 6677. Email: [email protected] Hendrie, 75 Lairhills Road, East Kilbride, Wars Today: Iraq and Syria 10 Glasgow G75 0LH. Tel: 01355 903105. Email: MIDLANDS [email protected]. Beside the Seaside 13 West Midlands Regional branch . Meets last Dundee . Ian Ratcliffe, 12 Finlow Terrace Sunday of the month, 3.00pm, the Briar Rose Dundee, DD4 9NA, Tel 01382 698297 pub, 25 Bennetts Hill, Birmingham B2 5RE. Tory bluster about Human 15 E-Mail:[email protected]. Kilmarnock .Meets last Thursday of month Rights Tel:01242 675357 7pm-9pm at the Wheatsheaf pub (about 2 minutes from bus station). Paul Edwards. Tel: But is it really Capitalism? 17 NORTHEAST 01563 541138. Email:rainbow3@btopenworld. Northeast branch . Contact: Vin Maratty, 22 com Greystoke Avenue, Sunderland, Tyne and Lothian Socialist Discussion @Autonomous Wear, SR2 9DS, tel: 01915 250 002. Email: Centre Edinburgh, ACE, 17 West Montgomery [email protected]. Place, Edinburgh EH7 5HA. Meets 4th Wednesday of each month 7.30-9.00pm. Tel: REGULARS NORTHWEST F.Anderson 07724 082753. Lancaster branch . Meets fortnightly 8.30pm. Pathfi nders 4 P. Shannon, 10 Green Street, Lancaster WALES LA1 1DZ. Tel: 01524 382380 Email: spgb. Swansea branch . Meets 2nd Mon, 7.30pm, Halo Halo! 6 [email protected] Unitarian Church, High Street. Corres: Manchester branch . Paul Bennett, 6 Burleigh Geoffrey Williams, 19 Baptist Well Street, Cooking the Books 7 Mews, Hardy Lane, M21 7LB. Waun Wen, Swansea SA1 6FB. Material World Tel: 0161 860 7189 Tel: 01792 643624 8 Bolton . Tel: H. McLaughlin. 01204 844589 Cardiff and District . Corres: Richard Greasy Pole 9 Cumbria . Brendan Cummings, 19 Queen St, Botterill, 21 Pen-Y-Bryn Rd, Gabalfa, Cardiff, Millom, Cumbria LA18 4BG CF14 3LG. Tel: 02920-615826 Email: Cooking the Books 18 Carlisle : Robert Whitfi eld. Email: robdotbob@ [email protected] gmail.com Tel: 07906 373975 Llandudno Mixed Media 19 Rochdale . Tel: R. Chadwick. 01706 522365 Contact: Gareth Whitley - Email: gwhitley@ Southeast Manchester . Enquiries: Blanche hotmail.co.uk Reviews 20 Preston, 68 Fountains Road, M32 9PH Proper Gander 21 INTERNATIONAL CONTACTS YORKSHIRE Meetings 22 Yorkshire Regional Branch: Richard Latin America . J.M. Morel, Calle 7 edif 45 Rainferd, tel: 01484 327468 apto 102, Multis nuevo La loteria, 50 Years Ago 23 [email protected] La Vega, Rep. Dominicana. AFRICA Action Replay 23 SOUTH /SOUTHEAST /SOUTHWEST Kenya . Patrick Ndege, PO Box 78105, Nairobi. Kent and Sussex Regional branch. Meets Swaziland . Mandla Ntshakala, PO Box 981, Voice from the Back 24 second Sunday every month at 2.00pm at The Manzini. Free Lunch 24 Muggleton Inn, High Street, Maidstone ME14 Zambia. Kephas Mulenga, PO Box 280168, 1HJ. Kitwe. Email: [email protected] ASIA Tel: 07973 142701. Japan . Michael. Email: japan.wsm@gmail. South West Regional branch. Meets 2nd com Saturday of each month in the Railway AUSTRALIA Tavern, Salisbury, 2.00pm (check before Trevor Clarke, [email protected] The Socialist Party attending). Shane Roberts, 86 High Street, EUROPE 52 Clapham High Street, Bristol BS5 6DN. Tel: 0117 9511199 Denmark . Graham Taylor, Kjaerslund 9, fl oor London SW4 7UN Canterbury . Rob Cox, 4 Stanhope Road, Deal, 2 (middle), DK-8260 Viby J Tel : 0207 622 3811 Kent, CT14 6AB Germany . Norbert. Luton . Nick White, 59 Heywood Drive, LU2 E-mail: [email protected] Email: [email protected] 7LP Norway . Robert Stafford. Website : www.worldsocialism.org/spgb Redruth . Harry Sowden, 5 Clarence Villas, Email: [email protected] Blog: http://socialismoryourmoneyback. Redruth, Cornwall, TR15 1PB. Italy. Gian Maria Freddi, Via Felice Casorati blogspot.com/ Tel: 01209 219293 n. 6A, 37131 Verona Spain . Alberto Gordillo, Avenida del Parque EAST ANGLIA 2/2/3 Puerta A, 13200 Manzanares. SUBSCRIPTION ORDERS East Anglian Regional branch. Meets every should be sent to the address above. two months on a Saturday afternoon (see COMPANION PARTIES OVERSEAS RATES: One year subscription (normal rate) meetings page for details). £15. One year subscription (low/unwaged) £10. Pat Deutz, 11 The Links, Billericay, CM12 Europe rate £20 (Air mail). Rest of world £25 0EX. [email protected] Socialist Party of Canada/Parti Socialiste (Air mail). Voluntary supporters subscription David Porter, Eastholme, Bush Drive, Eccles- du Canada . Box 4280, Victoria B.C. V8X 3X8 £20 or more. Cheques payable to ‘The Socialist on-Sea, NR12 0SF. Canada. Party of Great Britain’. Tel: 01692 582533. Email:[email protected] Richard Headicar, 42 Woodcote, Firs Rd, World Socialist Party (India) 257 Baghajatin Hethersett, NR9 3JD. Tel: 01603 814343. ‘E’ Block (East), Kolkata - 700086, Tel: 033- The next meeting of the Executive Committee Cambridge . Andrew Westley, 10 Marksby 2425-0208, Email: [email protected] will be on Saturday 6 December at the Close, Duxford, Cambridge CB2 4RS. World Socialist Party (New Zealand) P.O. address above. Correspondence should be Tel: 07890343044 Box 1929, Auckland, NI, New Zealand. sent to the General Secretary. All articles, World Socialist Party of the United States letters and notices should be sent to the IRELAND P.O. Box 440247, Boston, MA 02144 USA. Editorial Committee. Cork : Kevin Cronin, 5 Curragh Woods, Email: [email protected] 2 Socialist Standard November 2014 Introducing The Socialist Party The Socialist Party is like no other political new socialists. We publish pamphlets will be able to draw on and greater will be party in Britain. It is made up of people who and books, as well as CDs, DVDs and the new ideas for building the movement have joined together because we want to various other informative material. We which you will be able to bring us. get rid of the profi t system and establish also give talks and take part in debates; The Socialist Party is an organisation of real socialism. Our aim is to persuade attend rallies, meetings and demos; run equals. There is no leader and there are others to become socialist and act for educational conferences; host internet no followers. So, if you are going to join themselves, organising democratically discussion forums, make fi lms presenting we want you to be sure that you agree and without leaders, to bring about the our ideas, and contest elections when fully with what we stand for and that we kind of society that we are advocating practical. Socialist literature is available are satisfi ed that you understand the case in this journal. We are solely concerned in Arabic, Bengali, Dutch, Esperanto, for socialism. with building a movement of socialists for French, German, Italian, Polish, Spanish, If you would like more details about socialism. We are not a reformist party Swedish and Turkish as well as English. The Socialist Party, complete and with a programme of policies to patch up The more of you who join The Socialist return the form on page 23. capitalism. Party the more we will be able to get our We use every possible opportunity to make ideas across, the more experiences we socialist standard NOVEMBER 2014 Editorial Foolish protest SO UKIP have won their fi rst MP, Douglas Carswell, ex-Tory, protectionist and anti-foreigner views fl ourish when people, currency crank and free-marketeer who wants to bash those who already mistakenly consider themselves to be a nation, on benefi ts even more. Quite how UKIP feel this can appeal feel economically insecure. They tend to turn to the ‘nation- to Labour voters is unclear. From a policy point of view, UKIP state’ to protect them from world market pressures and the are still Tories, an external faction of the Tory party, fi nanced competition of other states. by jumped-up, opinionated businessmen who think they can Panic-stricken, the Tories, who stand most to lose from buy themselves into politics. the UKIP protest vote, are trying to compete with UKIP in the The trouble is that people don’t always think rationally anti-immigration and anti-EU stakes. As far as the dominant when it comes to protest votes. In these instances they are section of the British capitalist class is concerned, this is a voting against something –the Labour, Tory and Lib Dem dangerous game. They don’t want to withdraw from the vast, Westminster politicians – not for anything. UKIP voters won’t single European market, nor to be excluded from taking be interested in anything beyond the party’s anti-foreigner part in decisions about it. And they see more advantages stance and don’t know or couldn’t care less what else it says than disadvantages in the free movement of EU labour. it stands for. Nor would they expect UKIP to carry out its They would be appalled if their favourite party, the Tories, in promises if they got into power any more than they expect the pursuit of the personal ambitions of its MPs and would-be other parties to.