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About Me

Hi!
My name is Steve Wallis. I am a socialist political activist and singer/songwriter currently living in Manchester.
I was involved with a band called Red Day, based in Glasgow, earlier this year and I have put some recordings we have done on this page. I hope to do further recordings with this band, but I am relaunching my Manchester band Galaxia and looking for band members. Galaxia has performed demo versions of two new songs, including Things Can Only Get Bitter mainly about British politics. Contact me (preferably by emailing [email protected] or phoning 07725 735255) if you want to participate in Galaxia. I would also particularly welcome emails from people I used to know and have lost contact with.
I have also done a lot of recordings on my own, which I have called Socialist Musical Poetry. The Project Playlist music player widget was deleted from the page by MySpace due to copyright problems with that software. I hope to put a selection of those songs back on this page using different software in the near future; for now, you can watch videos of me performing some of my songs at demonstrations in London and Manchester. Click on the play buttons in the Music section of this page. Note that the videos don't always play, perhaps due to censorship - you can also find them on my YouTube page .You can download copies of my songs/musical poetry and browse lyrics from the musical poetry page of my socialist website .An earlier incarnation of Galaxia recorded three songs in Manchester in June 2005, just before the G8 summit at Gleneagles (Scotland) in July, including Do They Know It’s G8 Time? (my lyrics to the Band Aid song Do They Know It’s Christmas?) and The Revolution Starts Now!Note that I have improved the lyrics of the latter song considerably; the new version is called The Revolution Could Have Started Then! (which you can download from my musical poetry page).
If you want to find out more about my views, go to my socialist website at www.socialiststeve.me.uk .

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Priya Reddy (an Indian activist based in New York, sometimes known as “warcry”, who I wrongly suspected was a political prisoner in a psychiatric ward that she compared to Auschwitz concentration camp), Cath Bann (my greatest collaborator from 1998-2003), Rhiannon Williams (the first serious love of my life), Konnie Huq and Martine McCutcheon!

My Blog

My Life (part 1) - video of my musical poem

I have uploaded a new music video of my musical poem "My Life (part 1)", formerly known as "I Walk The Earth", to MySpace (it's a bit too long for YouTube). You can find it at http://vids.myspace.com/...
Posted by on Sun, 31 May 2009 06:22:00 GMT

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

I include below the contents of my most important document, that I have just finished writing - a rewrite of an old Good Intentions Manifesto I wrote last year, as an alternative socialist analysis to...
Posted by on Tue, 26 May 2009 13:08:00 GMT

Great chance for left in European elections

Great chance for left in European electionsby Steve Wallis (www.socialiststeve.me.uk), 24 May 2009The upcoming elections to the European Parliament (on Thursday 4 June) should be the best opportunity ...
Posted by on Sun, 24 May 2009 06:02:00 GMT

Towards a Theory of Everything - incorporating free will

Towards a Theory of Everything - by Steve Wallis (www.socialiststeve.me.uk), 14 May 2009Devising a "Theory of Everything" is the holy grail of physics. Physicists contend that there are four fundament...
Posted by on Thu, 14 May 2009 11:53:00 GMT

Swine flu and taps/faucets: Capitalism kills

I posted the following yesterday:There are many other points I could make about swine flu, such as the probable cause being factory farming (as Johann Hari points out in http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Posted by on Sat, 02 May 2009 07:51:00 GMT

Middle Class Hero - my new song

Yesterday I finished writing a new song called "Middle Class Hero" and uploaded the lyrics to the website of my band Galaxia (www.galaxiamusic.org). I've also included the lyrics below. [Some of you m...
Posted by on Fri, 17 Apr 2009 03:50:00 GMT

My G20 music videos - live at Put People First demo in London

I attended the first of many protests opposing/intending to influence the upcoming G20 meeting on Saturday. I had taken along songsheets containing lyrics of two of my songs/musical poems "Do They Kno...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:44:00 GMT

"Do They Know It's G20 Time?" - lyrics of new Galaxia song

Some of you will be aware that I wrote and recorded a song called "Do They Know It's G8 Time?" to the tune of Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" before the 2005 G8 summit in Gleneagles, Scotlan...
Posted by on Sun, 08 Mar 2009 13:47:00 GMT

Open letter to SWP: Proportional Representation for House of Lords, not abolition

I sent this as a letter to Socialist Worker (the newspaper of theBritish SWP) last week, and have also distributed it fairly widely. I doubt they'll printit, but you never know...Your 3 February edi...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:27:00 GMT

ITV News censorship of aid convoy to Gaza

Note: I sent the following message out yesterday, but I've just written an important postscript (PS) at the end.I've recently started attending demonstrations outside the BBC studios in Manchester (Ox...
Posted by on Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:28:00 GMT