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		<title>Food Prices &#8211; speculation and hoarding</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 16:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jomo Kwame Sundaram , United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development writes :- &#8220;Lack of food is rarely the reason that people go hungry. The world today produces enough food to feed everyone. The problem is that more and more people simply cannot afford to buy the food they need. Even before the recent food-price increases, a billion people were suffering from chronic hunger, while another two billion were experiencing malnutrition, bringing the total number of food-insecure people to around three billion, or almost half the world’s population. Global food prices are at the highest level since the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization started monitoring them in 1990. The World Bank estimates that recent food-price increases have driven an additional 44 million people in developing countries into poverty. The rapid rise in world prices for all basic food crops – corn, wheat, soybeans, and rice – along with other foods like cooking oils, has been devastating for poor households all over the world. But almost everybody’s standard of living has been reduced. Middle-class [-income] people are increasingly careful about their food purchases; the near-poor are losing headway and falling below, rather than staying above, the poverty line; and the [...]


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		<title>Crisis? What crisis?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2011 16:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no crisis. That deserves to be said twice. There is no crisis. What happened in Japan was a crisis. Haiti was a crisis. What we have is a failure of mathematics – the mathematics of greed. We as a society have never been so productive, and we have never had such wealth available to us, as we have today. Our ability to produce has grown faster even than is needed to provide for longer and happier lives. Think what has supposedly caused this crisis. Too much was produced. In particular, too many houses were produced for poor Americans. We had not yet produced enough for our whole community, but we were doing well – all too well. What happened? Building workers were stopped from building. People living in good houses were thrown out of them, and the houses left to become derelict. Across the world, workers who were producing wealth for their communities were stopped from doing so, by being thrown out of work; and then we were all forced to live on less. Why would something so crazy happen? Because production is not for use, it is for a profit. No work is allowed to take place, [...]


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		<title>Are Workers Brainwashed by Capitalism?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 06:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FN Brill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to know the truth, you cannot rely on newspapers. We have that on good authority – in fact, on the authority of the more honest newspapers. (The more honest papers are those that are read mainly by capitalists who need reliable information about the world in order to make investment decisions, as opposed to those that are read mainly by workers.) In a startlingly frank appraisal of the history and practice of the public relations (PR) industry, The Economist (18 December 2010) admits that PR was invented in the early 20th century to counter working-class struggles, and rising popular resentment against capitalism, by getting newspapers and journalists, until then sympathetic to the workers, on the side of the business class. American business was at the time worried by the rise of a new phenomenon: public opinion. The business élite feared this, especially as it was developing in an anti-capitalist direction, and were determined to take control of it and manipulate it for their own ends. PR’s founding father, Edward Bernays, was quite explicit about the aim: ‘the conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised opinions and habits of the masses’. That all this is true, and that [...]


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		<title>Capitalism &#8211; the Sick Society</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 01:44:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FN Brill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mental illness in America has become an established epidemic. So-called miracle drugs like Prozac are taken by 11% of the population – and Prozac is only one of the 30 available antidepressants on the market. Antidepressants are accompanied by anti-anxiety and anti-psychotic drugs. Xanax, America&#8217;s leading anti-anxiety medication, is so ubiquitous that Xanax generates more revenue than Tide detergent. Anti-psychotics drugs alone net the pharmaceutical industry at least $14.6bn dollars a year. Psycho-pharmaceuticals are the most profitable sector of the industry, which makes it one of the most profitable business sectors in the world. Americans are less than 5% of the world&#8217;s population, yet they consume 66% of the world&#8217;s psychological medications. Do these psycho pharmaceuticals work to restore mental health? Actually, the evidence is overwhelming that they fail. Antidepressants, the most popular psycho-pharmaceuticals, work no better than placebos. They work 25% of the time and stop working when the user stops taking them. In addition, they may actually harm patients in the long run. They disrupt brain neurotransmitters and may usurp the brain&#8217;s organic soothing functions. Psycho-pharmaceuticals are less effective in the long run than talk therapy. Talk therapy, like drugs, does change brain and body chemistry; unlike drugs, [...]


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		<title>Was the crisis just a mistake?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 08:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FN Brill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission set up by the US government reported at the end of January. They concluded that the crisis of 2007 and 2008 was the result of “human action and inaction, not of Mother Nature or computer models gone haywire”, but “of human mistakes, misjudgments, and misdeeds” and so avoidable. Obviously, the crisis was the outcome, even if unintended, of decisions by humans to behave in particular ways, but that’s not at issue. We need to know why the economic decision-makers involved took the decisions they did. What was the context of their decisions? What were the constraints acting on them? The driving force of capitalism is the pursuit of profits by competing enterprises. As the Commission put it, “in our economy, we expect businesses and individuals to pursue profits…” If there is a chance to make a profit from some activity then the businesses in that field will go for it. If the profits are high enough then other businesses will enter the field to share in the bonanza. This is what happened in the US. From 1997 until 2006 there was a boom in house building and buying. Big profits were to be made from [...]


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		<title>Zambia: the riots in Barotseland</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 04:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FN Brill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The events that took place in Western Province on 14 January strongly and correctly underpin that Zambia’s politics are tribalist – that tribalism in Zambia exists and is partly instigated by self-seeking politicians through inciting disgruntled ethnic groups in order to advance their political objectives. What is called nationalism comes to emphasise political allegiance to the state. Political states in Africa were mapped out by European imperialist nations under the guise of economic interests and military influence. Thus African kingdoms and empires were brutally decimated and different ethnic groups were forcibly integrated into colonial states and protectorates. British imperialism (colonialism) was politically, religiously and poetically lampooned as bringing civilisation. What is known today as Zambia consists of 72 ethnic groups and the Lunda-Luba speaking tribes comprise 90 percent of Zambia’s population. Politically and linguistically the Bemba remains one of the dominant tribes. The Lozi and Tonga remain linguistically and culturally differentiated from the Lunda-Luba complex tribe. It is undeniable that rigid ethnic and tribal patterns exist in Zambia today as a major factor determining the strength of political parties. The Barotseland Agreement was enacted on 7 May 1974 in London between the then Prime Minister of Northern Rhodesia Kenneth Kaunda, [...]


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		<title>Socialist Standard 2/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FN Brill</dc:creator>
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		<title>Role Modeling Socialism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 08:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For most of the twentieth century, Isaac Rab (1893 &#8211; 1986) was well known in the Boston area as a socialist soap-box orator, lecturer, and teacher. He was a founding member of the World Socialist Party of the United States and a central figure in its Boston Local for many years. In this book, Karla Rab, who is the granddaughter of Isaac Rab, tells the story of his life and presents a large selection of his surviving correspondence as well as many photographs. She draws on her own reminiscences and on those of many others who knew her grandfather. Isaac Rab was born into an immigrant socialist family on December 22, 1893. He devoted his whole life to the cause until his death on New Year&#8217;s Eve 1986. In 1916 he helped form the WSP from the left wing of the Michigan Socialist Party in Detroit. Later he settled in Boston, where he organized the Boston Local of the WSPUS in 1932. He also taught classes on Marxian economics for other organizations, including the Communist Party, the Proletarian Party, and various Trotskyist groupings. Karla Rab&#8217;s book is, of course, about much more than her grandfather as an individual. It is [...]


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		<title>Castro&#8217;s Brand of Capitalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 08:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this day in 1959 Fidel Castro was sworn in as prime minister of Cuba. He officially stepped down two years ago. The lie that Cuba is or was communist remains however and it is primarily with this in mind that SOYMB offers the following article, which first appeared in the Socialist Standard of February 1979. IT IS NOW TWENTY years since the hated Cuban dictator Batista went into exile. As he did so the small army led by Fidel Castro finally took control of Havana, the capital city, after years of rural guerilla warfare. This event, coupled with a series of economic and social reforms, is widely regarded as a revolution; it was no such thing. The new rulers nationalised much of the econorny, set-up a one-party system, established diplomatic, economic and military ties with the Soviet bloc and to an increasing extent adapted their radical nationalism to a tropical version of Bolshevism. Not only was it described as a &#8216;communist state&#8217; by the horrified defenders of United States&#8217; imperial interests, but also by young leftists elated by an initially unbureaucratic, indeed light-hearted and popular, new system that contrasted favourably with the familiar Soviet pattern. What really happened and [...]


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		<title>Child Labor in the USA &#8211; again?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 07:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jane Cunningham a Missouri State Senator has proposed a law the wholesale repeal of child-labor laws in that state. The law would allow employment of children under 14. She believes this will instill a &#8220;work ethic&#8221; in the young. She says that her bill simply loosens an overly broad prohibition on child labor and would allow kids to work at movie theaters, to babysit or to cut lawns, blaming the hysteria on union &#8220;misinformation&#8221; and politics. (HuffPo) Sounds nice and moderate? Here are the actual provisions of the bill: Restrictions on the number of hours and restrictions on when a child may work during the day are also removed. It also repeals the requirement that a child ages fourteen or fifteen obtain a work certificate or work permit in order to be employed. Children under sixteen will also be allowed to work in any capacity in a motel, resort or hotel where sleeping accommodations are furnished. It also removes the authority of the director of the Division of Labor Standards to inspect employers who employ children and to require them to keep certain records for children they employ. It also repeals the presumption that the presence of a child in [...]


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