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Budget Austerity in the West: New Food for the Privatization Parasite? By David Kerans
To borrow a formulation from Karl Marx, a specter is haunting the world: the specter of the privatization of public assets. At an accelerating rate, the infrastructure that makes civilization possible, such as transport routes, communication lines, hospitals, schools, energy delivery, sanitation, etc. is being privatized, with serious consequences to the welfare of society today… Continue reading
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Immersed in Empire By William Bowles
14 September, 2010 — Strategic Culture Foundation It seems we’ve lost a revolution before it even got started I’ve spent the last couple of months trying to get my ahead around the absurdity that is British capitalism as it tries to square the circle. Engaged in what can only be called even by capitalist standards, Continue reading
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Please sign up to the The Coalition of Resistance statement against the attack on the welfare state
A new broad-based Coalition of Resistance has been formed to resist the cuts, and put forward an alternative agenda. The Coalition of Resistance has today issued a statement calling for a mass campaign against the Con-Dem cuts and associated attacks on the welfare state, and has already been signed by dozens of trade unionists and… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 