SPGB Meeting TONIGHT 3 October 1930 (GMT + 1) ZOOM

 

WHAT WAS TO BE DONE, WHAT LENIN DID INSTEAD (Zoom)

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Event Details

• Date: October 4, 2024 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm

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Speaker: Adam Buick

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Time to say Enough is Enough

 

Whist heated speculation on social media about the personal behaviour of a UK ‘leader’ is occupying many, the real consequences of capitalism are to be seen in the devastation of untold innocent lives in the conflicts currently continuing across the world.

Men, women and children bombed in civilian residential areas, military forces composed of the working class, are ‘unalived’, killed ‘put to death, destroyed, terminated, ended, and for what purpose?

Who gains materially from such enormous destruction of human life?

Those involved in the military industrial complex for one. One imagines them are rubbing their hands with glee at the practical demonstrations of how effective their killing commodities are. Good for future sales. But don’t forget the super bonus additional profits their death and desruction machines are generating.

Secondly, ‘leaders’ on a power trip who announce it’s all to save their ‘nation’. Or who need wars and conflicts in order to stay in power. Don’t want to give up all those perks doncha know.

A favourite hashtag on social media is to ‘Not in my name.’ Well, enough is enough. Time the majority said, Capitalism, Not In My Name.

Workers, end the killing spree now. Fight for a Socialist society, not capitalism.

October 2024 Socialist Standard Now Available

 

https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2020s/2024/no-1442-october-2024/

Socialist Sonnet No. 166

Political Amnesia

 

Those whose collective past is badly scarred

By such brutal confinement and killing,

Might be expected to be unwilling

To allow their hearts to become so hard

As to emulate their persecutors

Through perpetrating a modern Childermass,

When self-defence is not even a crass

Excuse. It's always the innocent in wars

Whose lives too often end being cheaply spent.

When even the hospitals are burning,

It appears there may be no learning,

No lessens drawn down from any recent

History. All seems power and vanity;

Yet there is choice, to choose humanity.

 

D. A.