Derrick Jensen, a prolific (and well known) anti-capitalist and environmentalist has written a pretty good argument for the need for political change on a system wide basis.
Forget Shorter Hours (subtitled “Why personal change does not equal political change”.) Jensen, who writes from a radical environmental perspective, says:
Part of the problem is that we’ve been...
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Forget Shorter Showers
On the Republic Window Sit-In
The occupation of the Republic Window and Door factory in Chicago has ended.
Certainly this has been an inspiring event. One hopes the sit-in will inspire even more inventive methods of fighting for working people.
However, we must also take into account what was “won”. The workers received the monies owed them. They lost their jobs....
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Trotskyist Laundry List
One of the most laughable aspects of Trotskyist politics is the continual trotting out of laundry lists of demands. Stalinist/Maoist demands and tactics tend to be cynically practical – e.g.. the alliance of the USSR and Nazi Germany between 1939-41. Trotskyists, on the other hand, make demands that are so unreal they make Charles...
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Why The Economic Crisis?
The WSP has produced three leaflets (in pdf format) meant to aid working people to understand the causes of the current economic crisis: “Booms and slumps – what causes them?” – Discusses in plain terms the causes of economic cycles and why “Ultimately, it is the economy that controls politicians and not the other...
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Bail Out!
So Wall Street has their cake and gets to eat it too. No surprise. And the politicians of all stripes wring their hands and make grandiloquent sound-bites of how they should be listened to.
It’s just so much noise. Both Democrats and Republicans are shocked. SHOCKED! So much for the reputation of Ivy...
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Is Obama a socialist?
The WSP got a an e-mail recently from some right-wing blogger for the New York Times who asked if we considered Barak Obama a socialist and if we supported his tax plans. blah, blah, blah. We won’t pass judgement on an article which may or may not see the light of day....
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Stephen Jay Gould
On the anniversary on the birth of the famous scientist Stephen Jay Gould, who sadly died in 2002 at the young age of sixty, readers might like to see what Socialists have to say about his work, evolutionary theory and related matters:
Gould v. Dawkins
Dawkins wars (1 & 2)
Socialism & Darwinism
Why Gould was wrong, and...
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Manchester, UK – The Great Bank Bail-Out
Title: Manchester, UK – The Great Bank Bail-Out
Location: Unicorn, Church Street, City Centre, Manchester, UK
Start Time: 20:30
Date: 2008-11-24
End Time: 22:30
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Inflation of Logic
Zimbabwe inflation has reached an estimated 2.2 million percent per year. Shown here is a Z$500 million note.
If our rulers are to be believed, high wages cause inflation. If this was true, it would make sense that Zimbabwe’s working class is the most affluent in the world. Instead the poverty rate is over 80%.
Wages...
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Portland – Marxian Economics for Workers
Title: Portland – Marxian Economics for Workers
Location: Portland, OR
Description: WSP member FN Brill will present a workshop on \”Marxian Economics for Workers\” at the Portland Radical Bookfair. Time:tba Liberty Hall, 311 N Ivy, Portland, OR
Start Time: 12:00
Date: 2008-12-06
End Time: 17:00
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