Hans-Jörg Rudloff, the head of the Management Board of investment bank Barclays Capital knows how to solve the debt crisis and bring “competitiveness” back to the European Union. Half of the social benefits have to go. People have to work more, doing longer hours for longer years. He explained that “Europe is carrying a...
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Class War Declaration
Solidarity with Arab Workers
Saudi Arabian troops sent to help put down the protests for democracy in Bahrain. While the UK government demands action against Gadhaffi , is there a similar call for a move to oppose this military intervention by Saudi Arabia? Will those governments who rightly condemn Gadaffi’s use of foreign mercenaries now condemn this use...
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Tunisia – people power, but…
The lightning rapidity and relative ease with which Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was chased out of Tunisia in January, is a clear testimony not only of the power of the masses but also (though unknown to many) how vulnerable and cowardly many a dictator is. Hours before his ignominious flight, Ben Ali appeared...
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Zeitgeist 3 Review
“…I’m 94 years old now and I’m afraid my disposition is the same as it was 74 years ago, THIS SHIT’S GOT TO GO!” And so begins Zeitgeist: Moving Forward the third film in a series of independently produced and distributed films by Peter Joseph. For those unfamiliar with these films, which have enjoyed...
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Bahrain resists
The Arab protests has at last reached the Gulf. rally of thousands in Manama, the capital of Bahrain, was bloodily dispersed , leaving at least three people dead. Troops in tanks and armoured personnel carriers have now been deployed to key areas in Manama to prevent crowds gathering. Bahrain won its independence from the...
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Genocide of the “Bushmen”
Socialist Banner has sympathetically and repeatedly reported on the manner that the San Bushmen are being treated by the Botswana government. In the early 1980s, diamonds were discovered in the reserve. Soon after, government ministers went into the reserve to tell the Bushmen living there that they would have to leave because of the diamond finds....
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Who Pays the Price of the Recession?
Households face the most dramatic squeeze in living standards since the 1920s, Mervyn King, the Governor of the Bank of England warned. Families will see their disposable income eaten up as they “pay the inevitable price” for the financial crisis. With wages failing to keep pace with rising inflation, workers’ take- home pay will...
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Why won’t Obama visit Bhopal
The gas leak in Bhopal ranks as one of the world’s worst industrial accidents. 40 metric tonnes of lethal Methyl Iso-Cynate (MIC) gas escaped from the Dow Chemical subsidiary Union Carbide factory in 1984, exposing over 500,000 people, instantly killing some 8,000, and causing 25,000 deaths in the past 26 years. Today, some 120,000...
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Practical Politics
The World Socialist Party is pro real democracy. Real democracy can only be achieved by common ownership of resources and free access to goods and services, because only this provides political equality. The tyranny of money maintains injustice and division world wide. The World Socialist Party is thus anti capitalist. In capitalism, a minority...
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Land Grab: win-win or win-lose?
Following the recent growing interest in land acquisition and investment in land around the world for which there are no binding regulations and also, apparently, no agreement by private industry as to whether or how to adopt voluntary self-regulation, the World Bank with the Food and Agriculture Organisation, the Institute for Food and Development,...
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