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Video: Under Thatcher, the Poor Became Poorer
John Weeks: Thatcher and Reagan set out to crush the union movement and assert the power of capital Continue reading
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European Trade Unions and the Struggle for Public Services By Christoph Hermann
The public sector is a key battleground for a progressive trade union strategy and for an alternative to neoliberalism in Europe. On the one hand the existence of a public sector is a continuing example that a not for profit driven production of goods and services is not only possible in the 21st century –… Continue reading
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The Crisis of the European Welfare State An interview with Asbjørn Wahl
This is the start of a new era of social struggle. Social models, however, cannot be copied, neither from previous phases in history, nor from country to country. Social models are the concrete results of struggles and power relations in society. Continue reading
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Marxist, Atheist, Jewish, Zionist and Prime Minister (wannabe)
Haaretz reported today that “Britain’s next Jewish prime minister says he is a Zionist” how surprising. His brother David, was listed by an Israeli official website as an ‘Israeli propaganda (Hasbarah) Author’. Reading Haaretz today confirms that ‘Red Ed’ changed his mind, he is now ‘Blue & White’. a genuine Zionist Jew. I guess that… Continue reading
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Video: Pt 4: Du Bois and the Soviet Union
On the 145th anniversary of the birth of W.E.B. Du Bois, Anthony Monteiro looks at Du Bois’s relationship with the CPUSA and the Soviet Union Continue reading
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GMO Agribusiness and the Destructive Nature of Global Capitalism By Colin Todhunter
It’s apparent that, as the academic David Harvey states, the problems created by capitalism don’t get solved, they just get shifted around. Nowhere is this epitomized more clearly than the role of US agribusiness in India. Continue reading
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Europe: Existential Danger: New Political Challenges By Elisabeth Gauthier
In Europe, an ‘oligarchy’ has increasingly gotten hold of various powers; it is becoming radicalized and sees the moment as having come in which brutally to accelerate the dismantling of social and democratic gains, notably by profiting from the ‘crisis of public debt,’ generalizing austerity policies which, in turn feed the crisis. Continue reading
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The Left in Europe: From Social Democracy to the Crisis in the Euro Zone. An Interview with Leo Panitch
Because we need time. If the catastrophists, of which there are a great many, are right that we’ve only got five or ten years, we’re screwed. I mean, really screwed. Whether that’s the ecological crisis, or before fascism takes over, or what have you. Continue reading
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UK council leaders warn of social unrest By Robert Stevens
The leaders of three Labour Party-controlled city councils wrote a letter to the Observer, published December 29, warning that the scale of the Conservative/Liberal Democrat austerity agenda could lead to “the break-up of civil society”. Continue reading
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South Africa: The road from 1996 to Mangaung By Terry Bell
The tortuous road to the governing ANC’s centennial conference at Mangaung ends next week. And, not to put too fine a point on it, much of the country is gatvol with the route it has taken and where it has arrived. Continue reading
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South Africa after Marikana massacre: Strike wave and new workers' organisations challenge old compromises By Leonard Gentle
Over the November 10-11, 2012, weekend striking mineworkers of the Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) corporation gathered at a mass rally in Rustenburg and howled their defiance of a series of ultimatums issued by the company. At De Doorns, farm workers are on a “wildcat” strike — the latest of a series that has become a… Continue reading
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Video: Portugal General Strike: This is What Austerity Looks Like By grtv
Events in Southern Europe show the political strike to be an indispensable tool for self-defence. What the EU and the International Monetary Fund are demanding of states such as Greece and Portugal has nothing to do with neutral crisis management, but is rather brutal class struggle executed from above. Cutbacks and elimination of government services… Continue reading
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Video: Greek Parliament Approves Contentious Law to Expand Privatization
Dimitri Lascaris: New budget makes it clear Greece will never pay off its debts, real aim of austerity is to break unions and privatize public assets Continue reading
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Imperialism In The X-Factor Age By Colin Todhunter
In Vietnam, Agent Orange was dropped by the US to poison a foreign population. In Iraq and the former Yugoslavia, depleted uranium was used. In Western countries, things are a bit more complicated because various states have tended to avoid using direct forms of physical violence to quell their own populations (unless you belong to… Continue reading
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Video: Britain’s Unions Bring London to a Standstill
100 thousand workers march on the capital as unions warn austerity isn’t working and threaten a general strike for the first time since 1926 Continue reading
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Video: Britain's Unions Bring London to a Standstill
100 thousand workers march on the capital as unions warn austerity isn’t working and threaten a general strike for the first time since 1926 Continue reading
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