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In support of further devolution

carlr
16th July 2011 at 21:35
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Don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve a growing suspicion that we will never, in our lifetimes, see a mass movement aiming to renationalise the utilities and infrastructure of the UK; that we will never see a British government that restates the need for a compassionate society and engineers the institutions to achieve this, and we’ll never see a commitment to full employment (whether 5-day week or not) and economic democracy. [continue/comment...]

On Cuentapropismo In Cuba

Marie Lynam
16th July 2011 at 19:16
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Hello comrades In Cuba, the Communist Party initiative of ‘cuentapropismo’ was presented to the country by the Cuban Trade Unions. The recent Communist Party Congress adopted that initiative. It consists in allowing the setting up of small enterprises working on their own account. Some may be coops, others will be private. They will have the right to hire and fire. It is not clear how their production will fit in the overall plan. The Communist leaders have said that this initiative should give employment to the hundreds of thousands of workers whose State jobs are being suppressed.  [continue/comment...]
Tags: lessons in socialist construction (1)

Cross-party Afghanistan Withdrawal Group of MPs

Mike Phipps
13th July 2011 at 12:37
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I’ve attended two or three of these meetings now, co-chaired by Paul Flynn MP and Caroline Lucas MP. Two weeks ago John Hilary spoke about the growth of private military security companies and the growing use of targeted assassinations using predator drones.  Foreign Secretary William Hague, when asked about these said it was a matter for the governments of the US and Pakistan, despite the fact that the Brits are now using these. In fact, a report last week reported an incident in March in which 4 Afghan civilians were killed by an RAF drone. (http://news.sky.com/skynews/Article/201009116025039) [continue/comment...]

Hungarian workfare - a new army of slave labour

carlr
29th June 2011 at 05:38
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The Hungarian government has announced a new Hungarian Work Plan aimed at increasing the low employment rate in Hungary. As a post-communist country, subjected to Shock Therapy in the 1990s, some areas of Hungary have suffered unemployment rates over 40% continually over the last 20 years. http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-01-24-rowlands-en.html [continue/comment...]
Tags: international solidarity hungary trades unions (1)

Can Labour Straighten Out?

carlr
28th June 2011 at 13:39
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In Roald Dahl’s seminal work ’The Twits,’ Mr and Mrs Twit suffer the most terrible fate, that of the ’shrinks.’ This was, of course, a result of their heads being glued to the floor, by a rebellion of exotic birds and monkeys. Contrary to the concerns represented in the media following the scale of last year’s defeat, the real danger for the party is not a shift to the hard, Maoist/Stalinist/Trotskyist left. It is the political equivalent of the shrinks that truly threatens. The real danger for the party is that the interior is so atrophied and hollow after such a long period of head-standing and abjugation, that faced with a clever, opportunist Conservative leadership, the party will simply shrivel and shrink from direct, full criticism of Tory policy.  [continue/comment...]

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