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• InI 14:46 on April 22, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Africa ( 511 ), ANC ( 78 ), class ( 236 ), corruption ( 62 ), COSATU ( 22 ), independent ( 124 ), labour, Marikana ( 24 ), massacre ( 80 ), neoliberalism ( 53 ), NUM ( 11 ), parliament ( 40 ), South ( 284 ), unions ( 99 ), Zwelinzima Vavi ( 5 )   

  South Africa: Pro-government faction attacks COSATU’s Zwelinzima Vavi By Benjamin Fogel 

  12 April 2013 – Amandla!

  The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) is in the midst of the biggest crisis in its 27-year history. This crisis has arisen from a South African Communist Party (SACP)-driven attempt to oust democratically elected COSATU general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi, under the guise of corruption charges. The conflict’s roots are in longstanding political contradictions and ideological tensions between COSATU and its Alliance partners – the ruling African National Congress and the SACP. At stake is not only the leadership of COSATU, but its political and moral direction.

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• InI 21:47 on April 16, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Blair ( 115 ), Britain ( 267 ), class ( 236 ), Colin Todhunter ( 12 ), Global Research ( 631 ), labour, land ( 208 ), New World ( 39 ), politics ( 157 ), PR ( 102 ), right ( 621 ), Thatcher ( 47 ), UK ( 555 ), US ( 3,471 ), values ( 43 )   

  New World Order Political Puppets: How Thatcherism Paved the Way for Tony Blair and “New Labour” By Colin Todhunter 

  16 April 2013 — Global Research

  

  Most people are already aware that there were many similarities between Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher. Both were conviction politicians, both had political love-ins with US presidents and both liked to talk tough. Affable Tony could always ham it up with a good dose of media-friendly mock sincerity and tough talking. Thatcher and her PR people cynically forged the template for that. And both had a tendency to ignore that damned nuisance called public opinion and to land the country into a gruesome mess not of its own choosing.

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• InI 08:41 on April 10, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: BC ( 4 ), Bellamy Foster ( 9 ), capital ( 257 ), Columbia ( 14 ), Communist Manifesto ( 7 ), ecology ( 14 ), Engels ( 7 ), Green Left ( 11 ), Ian Angus ( 14 ), labour, Marx ( 97 ), nature ( 79 ), peace ( 227 ), profit ( 86 ), Simon Butler ( 3 ), socialist ( 69 )   

  A Return to Marx’s Ecological Critique By Simon Butler 

  9 April 2013 – Green Left Weekly

  

  Do oil spills make good economic sense? A witness called by Canadian firm Enbridge Inc. – which wants approval to build a $6.5-billion pipeline linking Alberta’s tar sands with the Pacific coast – told a recent hearing in British Columbia (BC) that the answer is yes. He said oil spills could benefit the economy, giving business new opportunities to make money cleaning it up. He told Fishers Union representatives that an oil spill in BC might indeed kill the local fishing industry, but their lost income would be replaced by compensation payouts and new career prospects, such as working for oil cleanup crews.

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• InI 08:17 on April 10, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: austerity ( 121 ), Britain ( 267 ), capital ( 257 ), debt ( 156 ), interest ( 107 ), labour, market ( 156 ), strikes ( 135 ), taxes ( 30 ), Thatcher ( 47 ), Trade ( 64 ), unions ( 99 ), value ( 62 ), VAT ( 2 ), War ( 1,465 )   

  “Let us glory in our inequality.” By Michael Hudson 

  8 April, 2013 — Michael Hudson

  Failed Privatizations – the Thatcher Legacy

  By Michael Hudson, a research professor of Economics at University of Missouri, Kansas City, and a research associate at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College. His latest book is “The Bubble and Beyond”.

  This is from my book on privatization, written some 15 years ago, never published.

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• InI 17:27 on April 5, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: bureaucracy ( 8 ), class ( 236 ), cuts ( 100 ), democracy ( 301 ), growth ( 84 ), labour, left ( 327 ), Lenin ( 18 ), pensions ( 23 ), radical ( 69 ), reproduction ( 16 ), Richard Seymour ( 3 ), right ( 621 ), SWP ( 6 ), UK ( 555 )   

  The actuality of a successful capitalist offensive By Richard Seymour 

  29 March 29, 2013 — Lenin’s Tomb

  We’ve been waiting five years for a coherent left-wing response to the recession. We’ve been waiting three years for a coherent left-wing response to the cuts. Two years ago, I was asked at a talk how we could communicate the socialist solution to the crisis; I said it would be nice if we had one. It would still be a step forward today. If the extant strategies, groups or alliances were sufficient to deliver this, we would have it by now.

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• InI 18:34 on April 4, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Britain ( 267 ), children ( 244 ), culture ( 167 ), cuts ( 100 ), debt ( 156 ), education ( 64 ), Financial Times ( 33 ), Global Research ( 631 ), housing ( 27 ), labour, London ( 364 ), NHS ( 29 ), total ( 85 ), UK ( 555 ), welfare ( 31 )   

  Demise of Britain’s Welfare State: Largest ever Welfare Cuts. Millions of Families Affected By Paul Mitchell 

  4 April, 2013 — Global Research

  On April 1, the largest ever welfare cuts came into force in Britain. As a result, millions who already live on the breadline are to be driven further into destitution.

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• InI 16:43 on March 26, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: 2013 ( 634 ), bank ( 233 ), capital ( 257 ), circulation ( 11 ), commodities ( 17 ), credit ( 71 ), futures ( 10 ), labour, nature ( 79 ), profit ( 86 ), S. Artesian ( 21 ), speculation ( 30 ), total ( 85 ), value ( 62 ), Wolf Report ( 22 )   

  Pocket Rocket Guide to Marxism By S. Artesian 

  26 March 2013 – The Wolf Report: Nonconfidential analysis for the anti-investor

  Some brief considerations on turnover, circulation, circulation time and labor time:

  Capitalists imagine their mode of production as production for exchange and imagines its origins in trade, in the circulation of the commodities between producers and …..producers, between producers and consumers, producers and “circulators,” merchants. 

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• InI 15:54 on March 25, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: austerity ( 121 ), capital ( 257 ), class ( 236 ), Crisis ( 199 ), EU ( 468 ), history ( 230 ), interview ( 107 ), labour, Norway ( 28 ), Trade ( 64 ), unions ( 99 ), VS ( 5 ), War ( 1,465 ), welfare ( 31 )   

  The Crisis of the European Welfare State An interview with Asbjørn Wahl 

  25 March 2013 — The Bullet • Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 789

  class=”quest”>Vladimir Simovic and Darko Vesic (VS and DV): Norway is considered as one of the most successful (economically, socially, etc.) countries in Europe and beyond. As such Norway is usually taken as a model for other countries to look up to. But the real question would be is Norway an exception in this age of neoliberal capitalism and the crisis it generated?

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• InI 15:32 on March 23, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: capital ( 257 ), discrimination ( 10 ), history ( 230 ), labour, land ( 208 ), Marx ( 97 ), peace ( 227 ), progressive ( 74 ), propaganda ( 169 ), racism ( 98 ), radical ( 69 ), revolution ( 228 ), socialism ( 86 ), television ( 50 )   

  Ten Seldom Posed Progressive Demands for the Propertyless By Dietmar Dath 

  22 March 2013 — The Bullet • Socialist Project E-Bulletin No. 788

  For Those to Whom the World Does Not Belong

  (Terminology: ‘property,’ does not mean that someone owns a pair of trousers, a car, a dildo or a frozen pizza. Property is meant only in the politically relevant sense of the word, where I have something at my disposal that compels others to bend over, to be pushed around, or to buck and bow, so that I can live as I do. If I own land, houses or apartments where someone wants to live or cultivate land, then they must surrender a portion of their wages, salary or something similar to me. If I own capital, I let it work for me; that is to say, I appropriate the labour of others for myself. Whoever does not like the use of such language should take it up with Karl Marx; he’s resting in peace and has time for such trifles.) Continue reading this...

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• InI 16:05 on March 14, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: 2012 ( 1,388 ), 2013 ( 634 ), AL ( 103 ), Baghdad ( 52 ), education ( 64 ), EN ( 26 ), GO ( 2 ), Iraq ( 1,284 ), labour, orphans ( 12 ), refugees ( 50 ), right ( 621 ), Syria ( 1,525 ), UN ( 1,125 )   

  Iraqi Children: Deprived Rights, Stolen Future By Bie Kentane 

  13 March, 2013 — Global Research

  Text of author’s presentation to a meeting at the United Nations, Palais des Nations, Geneva, March 15, 2013

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• InI 17:56 on March 3, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: 2013 ( 634 ), Arun Gupta ( 2 ), Capitalism ( 193 ), Crisis ( 199 ), Greg Albo ( 3 ), labour, Poland ( 46 ), Street Journal ( 53 ), Toronto ( 61 ), Video ( 988 )   

  Video: Class Struggles in Crisis: From Walmart to the State 

  22 February 2013 – Toronto — Left Streamed

  A panel discussion introduced and moderated by Socialist Register co-editor Greg Albo. Presentations by: Continue reading this...

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• InI 16:07 on February 21, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: France ( 278 ), labour, market ( 156 ), occupation ( 138 ), profit ( 86 ), resistance ( 93 ), revolution ( 228 ), solidarity ( 66 ), UK ( 555 ), US ( 3,471 ), VIETNAM ( 64 ), War ( 1,465 ), welfare ( 31 )   

  Divided We Fall By Kenneth Couesbouc 

  Winter 2013 – State of Nature

  “Welfare, as a universal institution, is the logical aspirational consequence of a unified nation. This union is a rare occurrence because, consciously or not, much thought and effort goes into insuring it does not happen.”

  When the Dismal Thirties succeeded the Roaring Twenties nations everywhere became restive. Free market private capitalism had failed and its financial structures had collapsed, leaving an ideological void that threatened the foundations of power and wealth. Continue reading this...

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• InI 18:15 on February 13, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: 2012 ( 1,388 ), 2013 ( 634 ), austerity ( 121 ), class ( 236 ), deficit ( 19 ), EU ( 468 ), labour, market ( 156 ), OBR ( 2 ), politics ( 157 ), regulation ( 28 ), the state ( 131 ), Treasury ( 26 ), UK ( 555 )   

  Reshaping Fiscal Policies In Europe: Enforcing Austerity, Attacking Democracy By Hugo Radice 

  13 February 2013 — The Bullet • Socialist Project • E-Bulletin No. 772

  On December 9th 2011 the European Council announced a new Fiscal Compact, as part of the series of measures undertaken in order to resolve the Eurozone sovereign debt and banking crises. It was incorporated into the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance (TSCG), signed by 25 class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>EU governments in March 2012, subsequently ratified by the signatory national governments, and in force from January 2013.[1] The Compact includes a commitment by those governments to a cap of 0.5% on the ‘structural deficit’ implied by their annual revenue and expenditure plans. It also reinforces the existing Maastricht Treaty fiscal rules through an obligatory adjustment procedure, to be enforced by the European Court of Justice. Continue reading this...

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• InI 20:37 on February 9, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: 2013 ( 634 ), austerity ( 121 ), cuts ( 100 ), France ( 278 ), labour, left ( 327 ), Links International ( 17 ), Mali ( 130 ), Murray Smith ( 2 ), Opposition ( 48 ), reform ( 49 ), right ( 621 ), Socialist Party ( 7 ), unions ( 99 )   

  France: As Hollande takes the social-liberal road, what prospects for the left? By By Murray Smith 

   7 February 2013 — Links International

   

  February 7, 2013 – KritiskDebat (Denmark ) and Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal – It is just over seven months since the Socialist Party’s Francois Hollande capped his victory in the presidential elections by winning a working majority in the elections to the National Assembly.

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• InI 20:23 on February 9, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Belgium ( 12 ), General Secretary ( 11 ), labour, paris ( 31 ), parliament ( 40 ), police ( 420 ), President Fran ( 3 ), Socialist Party ( 7 ), surveillance ( 141 ), unemployment ( 48 ), WSWS ( 29 )   

  French government prepares repression against workers By Pierre Mabut and Antoine Lerougetel 

  9 February 2013 — WSWS

  The French Socialist Party government of President François Hollande has ordered the mobilisation of the secret services and police to carry out surveillance of workers fighting mass unemployment and factory closures.

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• InI 16:34 on February 7, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: America ( 705 ), Australia ( 40 ), capital ( 257 ), Crisis ( 199 ), Economy ( 85 ), labour, London ( 364 ), market ( 156 ), Marx ( 97 ), PC ( 3 ), socialism ( 86 ), socialist ( 69 ), solidarity ( 66 )   

  Non-market socialism: Life Without Money – An Interview with Anitra Nelson 

  30 December 2012 – Radical Notes

  Life Without Money: Building Fair and Sustainable Economies (Pluto Press, London, 2011) that Anitra Nelson and Frans Timmerman have edited is a remarkable collection on the praxis of non-market socialism. For the contributors of the volume, socialism/communism is not just a state or goal which we have to achieve in some distant future; rather, it is built through immediate practices that reject capitalism and its key institutions – market and money. Continue reading this...

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• InI 16:39 on February 2, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: 2012 ( 1,388 ), Britain ( 267 ), class ( 236 ), CND ( 4 ), Collected Works ( 3 ), Communist Manifesto ( 7 ), Communist Party ( 15 ), Kate Hudson ( 2 ), labour, left ( 327 ), Morning Star ( 45 ), politics ( 157 ), US ( 3,471 )   

  Political life after the Communist Party By Kate Hudsen 

  31 January, 2013 — Left Unity

  class=”alignright size-full wp-image-601″ style=”border-style: initial; border-color: initial; float: right; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 15px; height: auto; max-width: 659px; border-width: 0px;” alt=”party” src=”http://leftunity.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/party.jpg” width=”198″ height=”255″ />In 1991, class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Kate Hudson was one of the leaders of the class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>left opposition within the class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Communist Party of Great class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>Britain that unsuccessfully attempted to prevent that organisation’s dissolution. Here she writes on political life after the Party. Continue reading this...

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• InI 12:35 on January 13, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: 2013 ( 634 ), capital ( 257 ), circulation ( 11 ), commodities ( 17 ), consumption ( 18 ), growth ( 84 ), independent ( 124 ), labour, market ( 156 ), Marx ( 97 ), overproduction ( 11 ), profit ( 86 ), reproduction ( 16 ), value ( 62 ), Wolf Report ( 22 )   

  That is a Rocket in My Pocket and I’m So Glad to See You Guide to Marxism, 5 

  11 January, 2013 — The Wolf Report

  Devaluation, Realization, Overproduction:

  (3) Looked at precisely, that is, the realization process of capital — and money becomes capital only through the realization process– appears at the same time as its devaluation process [Entwertungsprozess], it’s demonetization. Continue reading this...

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• InI 12:26 on January 12, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: barbarism ( 8 ), capital ( 257 ), class ( 236 ), education ( 64 ), Europe ( 188 ), labour, Links International ( 17 ), Marx ( 97 ), Michael Lebowitz ( 5 ), nature ( 79 ), organic ( 11 ), resistance ( 93 ), right ( 621 ), socialism ( 86 ), socialist ( 69 )   

  Michael Lebowitz: Socialism for the 21st century — re-inventing and renewing the struggle 

  9 January 2013 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal

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  [The following presentation was delivered to launch La Alternativa Socialista, the Chilean edition of The Socialist Alternative, in Concepcion, Santiago and Valparaiso, November 2012.]

  By Michael A. Lebowitz

  Every class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>socialist in the 21st century should try to answer two questions.

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• InI 14:31 on January 10, 2013 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: capital ( 257 ), class ( 236 ), culture ( 167 ), Django Unchained ( 4 ), history ( 230 ), labour, movie ( 32 ), radical ( 69 ), Review ( 149 ), revolt ( 36 ), slavery ( 16 ), total ( 85 ), War ( 1,465 )   

  Movie Review: Django Unchained: Great Vengeance and Furious Anger By Jordy Cummings 

  6 January 2013 – Basicsnews.ca

  [WARNING: Contains spoilers]

  “The class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>history of the crime story is a social class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>history; for it appears intertwined with the class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>history of bourgeois society itself….the class=’StrictlyAutoTagBold’>history of bourgeois society is also that of property and the negation of property, in other words, crime….because bourgeois society is a criminal society” – Ernest Mandel, A Delightful Murder: The Social History of the Detective Story

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