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	Foundation for Proportional Representation-based Socialism newsletter 7: nationalise banks to avoid cuts, socialist carbon trading, Labour's Alternative Vote con-trick, immigration, call for new anti-capitalist party in Britain
	Foundation for Proportional Representation-based Socialism Website: [link] Forum: [link] ⁠ Newsletter 7 (5 November 2009) Editor's note: I, Steve Wallis, have written all the articles in this newsletter. I would welcome replies to points in this newsletter and... more » By Steve Wallis - Nov 6 - 1 new of 1 message

The left and general elections

The following is my latest submission in a debate in the Weekly Worker newspaper ([link]), which will hopefully appear in Thursday's issue: John Masters (Letters, October 1) admitted he was wrong to exclude former Militant MPs Dave Nellist and the late Terry Fields from his analysis of the 1992 general election, and that including them would... more »

By Steve Wallis - Oct 13 - 1 new of 1 message

Cuts or nationalise banks, only compensating pension schemes, democratically controlled (mainly by borrowers and savers)

[While the message below is about UK politics, there are surely similar lessons to be drawn in other countries, with capitalist governments forced to make big cuts to make up for more generous public spending in the past...] New Labour is now promising public spending cuts, like the Tories and Liberal Democrats. And with £175 billion of predicted borrowing this... more »

By Steve Wallis - Sep 16 - 1 new of 1 message

	The New Good Intentions Manifesto (version 3) - my socialist philosophy
	Yesterday I finished writing the third version of my New Good Intentions Manifesto, providing my socialist philosophy based on people having predominantly good or bad intentions. This version includes a justification of Marxist class-based analyses as partially correct, explained in terms of such intentions. Thus, it should... more » By Steve Wallis - Sep 3 - 1 new of 1 message

	Double dip recession inevitable
	UK prime minister Gordon Brown warned about a double dip recession (another dip just after slight recovery) - see Guardian article: [link]. A double dip recession is inevitable due to massive spending cuts and tax rises, whoever wins next UK general election, unless there is a... more » By Steve Wallis - Aug 14 - 1 new of 1 message

Review of Peter Taaffe’s critique of the British SWP

I include below a short review that I've included in a Foundation for Proportional Representation-based Socialism newsletter (number 6), for distribution at Marxism 2009 (starting tomorrow, organised by the SWP). I've put a letter on reconciling PR with Marxism, as sent recently in a separate message, on the back. The newsletter can be... more »

By Steve Wallis - Jul 1 - 1 new of 1 message

Reconciling proportional representation and Marxism

[The following is a letter to the Weekly Worker, the newspaper of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). The CPGB's Mike Macnair advocated proportional representation in a 4 June article to which the letter I'm responding to was a reply. This week's issue will be more important than most since it will be sold at the SWP's Marxism 2009... more »

By Steve Wallis - Jun 29 - 1 new of 1 message

The New Good Intentions Manifesto - an alternative socialist analysis to Marixsm with a scientific basis - version 2

I include below the text of a second version of my New Good Intentions Manifesto. I regard it as my most important document, and record website stats after sending off the first version indicate that other activists regard it as important too (and it seems more recognise that I'm playing a positive role in the struggle for socialism)!... more »

By Steve Wallis - Jun 23 - 1 new of 1 message

	Overcoming censorship - new mirror of socialiststeve.me.uk in India
	Some of you may have clicked on a link on one of my messages and got an error message or given up waiting for the page to load, and probably assumed that this was due to a technical glitch or slow connection between computers on the internet. Even if you live in a Western country, a supposed democracy, this could be due to internet... more » By Steve Wallis - Jun 18 - 1 new of 1 message

The New Good Intentions Manifesto - an alternative socialist analysis to Marxism

I include below the contents of my most important document, that I wrote recently - a rewrite of an old Good Intentions Manifesto I wrote last year, as an alternative socialist analysis to Marxism. It explains my analysis of the struggle between good and bad forces in the world, conspiracies for control of the planet and the importance... more »

By Steve Wallis - Jun 1 - 2 new of 2 messages