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Harold Walsby: Either Black or White

October 12, 2012

Like the rest of their pseudo-scientific tribe, that four-legged combination of two S.P.G.B.-ers writing under the name of “Philoren” (in your correspondence, Feb 11) avowedly repudiate the “long term view of social evolution” and, along with it, the whole historical labour and working-class movement. (A movement, by the way, in which the I.L.P. has played… read more »

Ellis Hillman: A Word of History

October 12, 2012

Readers may be interested to know that Harold Walsby’s arrival in the pages of The Socialist Leader was no accident. I had been having a number of discussions with George Stone, the Editor, about ways and means of widening the appeal and circulation of the journal, and he asked me to approach new and stimulating… read more »

George Walford: On Cutting a Throat to Cure a Headache

October 4, 2012

We have had a good deal (and expect to have more) to say about the lack of evidence to the Party’s claims for what it likes to call ‘socialism;’ its statements about capitalism we have largely accepted. We do not propose now to say they are without foundation, only that they are so one-sided as… read more »

George Walford: Class War

September 29, 2012

In the Socialist Standard for March 1987 there appears a full-page article entitled “Are Socialists for War?” It is written as a dialogue between an (anarcho-)socialist. ‘A’ and a mild patriot ‘Q,’ and it puts what the Party likes to call its case against war. In A’s words: Wars are not about freedom and democracy…. read more »

George Walford: Back to Russia

September 29, 2012

In IC26 there appeared a piece entitled “Principle Number One.” It quoted a Party speaker on Russia saying the power of the Russian rulers is politically based and Principle No. 1 as saying modern society is based upon ownership by the capitalistS. The speaker quoted has now sent the following reply: According to Mr. Walford,… read more »

George Walford: West London Branch

September 28, 2012

On Friday 28 February we attended a meeting of the West London Branch on the subject of Apartheid. As usual, the speaker was well informed (though only about capitalism, not about ‘socialism’), and as usual he put the routine party case and used the routine evasion. When it was pointed out that, in South Africa… read more »

George Walford: From Minority to Majority (or Not)

September 28, 2012

The Ethidal Record for March 1987 quotes these figures from an article in Development Forum Nov-Dec 1986: in 1830 there were in the world 1,000,000,000 people; in 1930, 100 years later, 2,000,000,000; in 1960, 30 years later, 3,000,000,000 in 1975, 15 years later, 4,000,000,000 in 1986/87, 12 years later, 5,000,000,000 In 1930 there were in… read more »

Harold Walsby: What is the Answer?

September 23, 2012

The other day, on the television, Lord Boyd Orr told us that the world’s population is now expanding at the terrific rate of some 23 millions a year. In more concrete terms it means that, when you woke up this morning, there were 63,000 more human beings to feed, clothe and shelter and educate than… read more »

George Walford: Ideologic

September 23, 2012

In IC12 we presented a table of the patterns of thinking – which is to say the logics – used by the different ideologies. With revisions it goes like this: Protostatic: X and non-X are not logically differentiated. Epistatic: X and non-X are in principle distinct. Parastatic: X is X and not non-X. Protodynamic: X… read more »

George Walford: Editorial Notes (27)

September 28, 2012

LOTS OF LOVELY PEOPLE In this issue of IC we reprint another paper by Harold Walsby. It draws attention to the rate at which the population has been increasing and asks whether the purist ‘socialists’ – who tell us they need a majority have even been maintaining their relative numbers. It was written in 1951 and… read more »