pensions
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Mass opposition blocks Portuguese pension reform By Jordan Shilton
The “week of indignation, protest and fight” was in response to the budget of the right-wing coalition of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) and Popular Party (CDSPP), which passed the 2014 budget on November 26. It contained €3.9 billion in spending cuts, equivalent to 2.3 percent of the country’s GDP. Continue reading
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UK Labour seeks to outdo Conservatives with right-wing policies By Jordan Shilton
After a reorganisation of Labour’s shadow cabinet, which included new appointments to the positions of shadow education minister and shadow minister for work and pensions, party leaders publicly endorsed virulently right-wing politics. These positions were given by party leader Ed Miliband to Tristram Hunt and Rachel Reeves. Continue reading
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The actuality of a successful capitalist offensive By Richard Seymour
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.… Continue reading
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There Is No American Left By Salvatore Babones
Unfortunately, all the evidence is that the rest of the world is following America down the road to perdition. Nowhere are national health insurance schemes, access to free education, and old age pensions being expanded. Nowhere is the world moving forward. Everywhere the social gains of the twentieth century are either being eroded, or destroyed. Continue reading
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UK Public Sector Strike: Osborne Lights the Fuse to a Perfect Storm
Osborne’s mini-budget, spewed forth in the House of Commons the day before the two million-strong one-day public sector strike over pensions, is a big ‘fuck you’ to the majority of the population of the UK. Continue reading
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UK Public Sector Strike Newslinks 29-30 November 2011: 2 million strike
30 November 2011 — williambowles.info 30 November 2011 Strikers Show The Tories Who’s Boss: 2 Million Out To Save Their Pensions Morning Star Today at 17:32 Tory attempts to belittle public-sector industrial action rang pathetically hollow today as millions of workers joined the fight against government-imposed pension cuts. Continue reading
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Greece: cradle of austerity — RT
For the people that has meant wage cuts many people by 30 per cent in most cases. On top of that, tax hikes, cuts to pensions and cuts to public spending. Continue reading
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European Conference Against Austerity & Privatisation: European Conference Declaration
After a day of intensive debate, analysis and planning for cooperation and action, the Europe against Austerity Conference heard Coalition of Resistance Secretary Andrew Burgin propose the following Declaration, on behalf of the European Preparatory Committee. The Declaration was unanimously endorsed by the Conference which was attended by over 600 people Continue reading
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Slash military budget not pensions – UK union leader — RT
British union leader Mark Serwotka says public sector workers, who are going on a nationwide strike on June 30, will not allow the cabinet to go on with the planned cuts of budget spending. Continue reading
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Why teachers should strike (even if they don’t want to) By Ed
On June 30, although most of the teachers and lecturers in the NUT, ATL and UCU will be going on strike, not all of them will be. The following post, by Jacob Mukherjee*, presents a case for why those teachers should make the sacrifice and join the strike on June 30. Continue reading
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Sally Hunt and Owen Jones on June 30
Sally Hunt, General Secretary of the University and College Union, and Owen Jones, author of Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class, analyse the political context of the June 30 strikes and discuss how to make them part of a successful movement against attacks by the government. Continue reading
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ColdType June-July 2011 Issue
14 June 2011 — Coldtype Download in pdf format at http://www.coldtype.net 1. Back to the, er, past . . . This month we’ve changed our name from The ColdType Reader back to the original, and simpler, title of ColdType. It’s the third time we’ve changed our name: the first incarnation of ColdType was in tabloidprinted Continue reading
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Retirement no golden age in UK as pensions drop while costs rise — RT
British pensioners are going bankrupt faster than any other group in the UK, and the country’s Insolvency Service findings highlight how seriously those over 65 are struggling to keep their homes running, as costs rise. Continue reading
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France: Not Victorious, But Not Defeated By Murray Smith
It is now possible to begin to draw a tentative balance sheet of the vast movement against the reform (or more exactly, counter-reform) of the pension system in France over the last few months. We need to look at the depth and breadth of the movement, the forms that it took and the positions adopted… Continue reading
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The Cruelty and Stupidity of the Government’s Welfare Reforms By Andy Worthington
Journalists like to portray Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, as a caring, decent man, but while this may be true in his personal life, politically he is a ruthless ideologue, whose white paper on welfare reform, unveiled yesterday, reveals that he is, to be blunt, monstrously cruel and stupid. In the Daily… Continue reading
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French lessons
THE FRENCH revolt against austerity has transformed politics in France–and it has the potential to do the same across Europe and beyond. The relentless international drive to force down working-class living standards has run smack into a united and determined working class with one of the most militant traditions in the world. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 