I am moving to Glasgow soon (in just over a week's time, living in Wallace
Street in the Gorbals and very near the city centre) in order to get involved in
the Scottish Socialist Party (SSP) and form a revolutionary socialist band
called Galaxia, named after the very left-wing state of the galaxy at the end of
the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov.

It is important that we don't become rich and out-of-touch if the band is
successful. Therefore, all proceeds, except for workers' wages (as taken by SSP
members of the Scottish parliament) once the band becomes a full-time job, will
go to the Galaxia Foundation for the World Socialist Revolution, which will
democratically decide how to distribute them. I would like it to primarily fund
left-wing parties and campaigns, plus charities (particularly those which
campaign as well as alleviate the problems of capitalism). We will also do
benefit gigs, and I would like us to do the first ones as benefits for the SSP.

I have written two songs, which you can hear (as recorded before the G8 summit
in Gleneagles, Scotland, last year) or read the lyrics of on the Galaxia website
(www.galaxiamusic.org) - "Do They Know It's G8 Time?" (to the tune of Band Aid's
"Do They Know It's Christmas?") and "The Revolution Starts Now!" I would expect
band members (including myself) to write additional songs, but we could perform
versions of other people's songs as well (perhaps some love songs as well as
overtly political ones).

There is a very important deadline of the G8 summit in St Petersburg, from the
15th to the 17th of July this year, and I want us to do some sort of (probably
very limited) world tour before that summit in order to promote the idea of a
worldwide general strike at that time. Obviously it won't take off everywhere,
and perhaps it will not be until next year's G8 summit that mass strike action
will become a possibility, but we should at least try.

I have already come across three people who are interested in joining the
band, after publicising it on the Scottish Socialist Youth News forum
(http://www.ssy.org.uk/Forum), but I would like to give as many people as
possible the opportunity to get involved by sending out this message widely and
submitting it as an article/letter for the SSP newspaper, the Scottish Socialist
Voice. Anybody who is interested can contact me on 07739 904924 or email me at
busterblock@... and/or revolutionarysocialiststeve@....


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Steve Wallis (http://www.socialiststeve.me.uk).
Urgent/important emails: busterblock@....
My mailing list (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/manchesterism).
My revolutionary socialist band Galaxia (http://www.galaxiamusic.org;
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/galaxiamusic).
Launch a general strike at the time of the next G8 summit
(http://www.g8summitworldwidegeneralstrike.org).

Initiator of Revolutionary Platform of Respect
(http://www.revolutionaryplatformofrespect.org).
Member of Glasgow Shettleston branch of the Scottish Socialist Party
(http://www.scottishsocialistparty.org) and initiator of the Revolutionary
Platform of the SSP (http://www.revolutionaryplatformofthessp.org).

Initiator of the Campaign for Democracy in the UK
(http://www.democracycampaign.org.uk) and Campaign for Sanity in the NHS
(http://www.health-service-sanity.org).

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