Louder Than Bombs (2001)

A tale of extraordinary madness

Forget about your Dillons and your Rourkes, today's entertainment news reminds me once again that this is the bloke who should have played Bukowski/Chinaski on the big screen.

Though he was quite dapper looking as a young man, a decade or three of hell raising and high alcohol consumption ensured that his face fell into that lived in cragginess look that Bukowski was lumbered with for most of his life. Torn didn't just look the part, he lived the part.

It's official: poetry panini football strickers Vblogging Rip Torn was the new rock and roll.

January 2010 Socialist Standard

January 2010 Socialist Standard

Editorial

Capitalism and the New Decade

Regular Columns

Pathfinders Top of the Pop Charts

Cooking the Books 1 State monopoly capitalism

Cooking the Books 2 Financial alchemy

Material World Xenophobia in Russia

Greasy Pole The thick of it

Pieces Together Another Labour failure; Ten wasted years; The other 1 percent

50 Years Ago Labour's lost chord

Main Articles

Pitiful Copenhagen Given the competitive nature of capitalism any agreement on trying to deal with climate change was bound to be feeble and inadequate.

Climate change: business, as usual What should we have expected from such a large gathering of the world’s elites if it wasn’t this?

Masters of War ‘You can fool all of the people some of the time . . . and some of the people all of the time . . . but . . .’

Cab-ride to capitalism: servitude by the majority It only takes a cab ride in a city to see which class has the most power and influence in capitalist society.

Horror-Scope For Non-Socialists Some forecasts which are much more likely to be fulfilled – for non- Socialists.

Real life monopoly Compared to the complexities of capitalism socialism is a simple social system.

Ire of the Irate Itinerant Cartoon Strip

Book Reviews, & Meetings

Book Reviews:The Frock-Coated Communist: the Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels By Tristram Hunt; The Ecological Revolution – making peace with the planet By John Bellamy Foster The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Finance By Peter Stalker; Unravelling Capitalism. A Guide to Marxist Political Economy Joseph Choonara; Zombie Capitalism. Global Crisis and the Relevance of Marx. By Chris Harman; Engines of Change By Ian J Kerr

Socialist Party Meetings: Clapham, Holborn, Manchester & Norwich:

Voice From The Back

Pollution and Profits; Capitalism in action; The next war?; It must be obvious

DISCLAIMER TIME

Wow, I'm only 31 days late in posting this. Encourage me to be less tardy next month by clicking on lots of links . . .

I Like Killing Flies (2004)

Shampoo (1975)

Must try harder

Nothing like a false dawn on a freezing Saturday morning:

Four minutes into your Celtic debut and you score a winning goal and receive a yellow card? (No doubt for the celebration.)

Morten Rasmussen could be interesting and maybe - just maybe - I'll stop referring to Tony Mowbary as Tony Burns.

Turns out it was his second game for Celtic. I'd already expunged this travesty from my football memory bank.

Remember Last Night? (1935)

London to Brighton (2006)

Hairstyles and historians

Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain 135

Dear Friends,

Welcome to the 135th of our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace.

We now have 1565 friends!

Recent blogs:

Re-cycling food waste

Indian Earthquake: Did it really kill?

Money Must Go

Coming Events:

Public Debate between Adam Smith Institute (Eamonn Butler) and the Socialist Party (Richard Headicar).

Thursday, 4th February, 7.00pm

Small Hall, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London. WC1.

Film: Capitalism and Other Kids Stuff

2pm, Saturday 30th January

The Workshop 53 Earlham Road, Norwich NR2 3AD

Radical Film Forum,

Sundays 6pm - 52 Clapham High Street, London SW4 7UN.

31st January - Manufacturing Consent (part two)

Quote for the week:

"Read the paper - humdrum

Henley Regatta - page one

Eat die - ho hum

Page three - big bum

Giving a lunatic a loaded gun.

He walks - others run

Thirty dead - no fun

Foreigners feature as figures of fun

Do something destructive chum

Sit right down - write a letter to The Sun

Say... 'Bring back hangin' for everyone'"

John Cooper Clarke - 'Suspended Sentence'
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Continuing luck with your MySpace adventures!

Robert and Piers

Socialist Party of Great Britain

Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (2004)