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The following lecture was delivered by Samuel Tissot, a member of the Parti de l’égalité socialiste (PES), the French section of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI), and Peter Schwarz, a leading member of the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP), the German section of the ICFI. It was delivered to the Socialist Equality Party (US) International Summer School, held between July 30 and August 4, 2023. ....
Venturing into out of the way pubs in the 1970s customers were sometimes confronted with petitions calling for the restoration of the death penalty. It was perhaps unfair to regard all pub landlords as dyed in the wool reactionaries, but given that their profession produced the highest number of alcoholics, ready access to the demon drink maybe turned many licensees into misanthropes back in the day. Albert Pierrepoint, the state’s official hangman, was a pub landlord. His boozer in Oldham was Help The Poor Struggler. ....
I met Tom Nairn, who has died at the age of 90, only once, when I was 17 or 18 and he came to speak at a meeting at my university. I remember wondering how someone even more shy, awkward, and dishevelled than I was could have become such a high-profile influence on the left. Nairn wrote not awkwardly but exuberantly, floridly, splendidly. ....