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Reserve army—pandemic edition
You know things are bad—and going to get worse—when a mainstream newspaper like the Washington Post invokes the Mohr (Karl Marx) Continue reading
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How to abolish a free health service, step one By David Cullen
The Tory plan to charge migrants for NHS treatment has rightly come under fire for being policy directed at an invented non-issue; because it will therefore probably cost more money than it will save; and because it will change the doctor-patient relation in an insidious way – asking doctors to police their patients. Continue reading
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BBC welfare reform show breached impartiality guidelines
A BBC documentary on the welfare state breached impartiality and accuracy guidelines, the BBC Trust has found. Continue reading
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UK government set on deeper cuts to welfare By Julie Hyland
Earlier this week, Conservative Party chairman Grant Shapps said unemployed parents should only receive benefit for their first two children, meaning entitlement to child benefit and/or income support and other financial aid could potentially be removed for any children above that number. Continue reading
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Worst cuts in wages for UK workers in ‘deepest recession since WWII’, IFS shows
Between 2010 and 2011, 70 per cent of employees who stayed in the same job fronted real wage cuts, while a third of those workers faced nominal wage freezes or cuts (12 per cent experienced freezes and 21 per cent experienced cuts). Continue reading
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Video: Privatizing Europe
Nick Buxton: A massive European fire sale is one way finance is using the crisis to entrench neo-liberalism (inc. transcript) Continue reading
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UK’s poorest families face hundreds of percent tax rise
Under the UK government’s austerity program millions of low income households are facing a hike in their council tax bills of up to 333% a year. New changes are to be introduced this April, while Scotland and Wales chose not to implement the cuts to benefit. Continue reading
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Book Review: Wages without work
It is no longer a question of being out of work. The question is: on whose terms will we be unemployed? The financial crisis has thrown millions out of work and destroyed the future possibility of decent work for millions more. Many, if not most, of the unemployed and unemployable are women. With the TUC… Continue reading
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Video: Anti-Austerity Protests and Strikes Rock Spain
Spain’s struggling public sector workers and the unemployed converged on Spain’s capitol to denounce their governments decision to implement deeper spending cuts. Continue reading
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Insurgent Notes | The Next Step for Occupy Wall Street: Occupy Buildings, Occupy Workplaces
Today, after two months of occupations and the attacks on the occupations in Portland, Oakland and now Manhattan, OWS might be crossing a new threshold–a massive convergence of students in Union Square and a working-class convergence in Foley Square attempting to give reality to the growing calls for a general strike. Continue reading
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Video: The Real Source of the British Riots
So in the UK, only one in five homes is occupied by couples with children. Nine out of ten couples face a tax and benefit penalty worth more than 100 pounds a week if they live together – so in other words, they are 100 pounds a week better off if they live apart! Continue reading
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Organizing for the poor Pt.3
Williams: Over the last several years the left has been suffering from demoralization and demobilization Continue reading
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Deep in the capitalist doo-doo By William Bowles
18 July 2008 “The current market jitters are centred on disturbances in the world’s credit markets. Worries about the viability of sub-prime mortgage lending have spread around the financial system, and the central banks have been forced to pump in billions of dollars to oil the wheels of lending.” ‘Financial crises: Lessons from history‘, Analysis Continue reading
The New Dark Age 