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		<title>Which Way, Workers?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Western Socialist, July, 1947 Throughout the world today, working men and women are planning, discussing, organizing in trade unions, demonstrating and supporting political groups, all with a view to improving their social conditions. In some countries, they have had the right to vote for many years, and have been instrumental in the rise to power of Conservative, Liberal, Democratic, and Labor Governments. In all highly organized countries, political parties depend upon workers votes and support to achieve electoral success. After all these years of effort and aspiration, an assessment of their present social conditions should be timely. What is the lot of workers &#8211; the majority of society &#8211; today in 1947? Are they not still dependent upon wages and salaries (necessarily inadequate) with poverty their constant neighbor? Is the problem of &#8220;getting by,&#8221; of unease and insecurity, not more acute than ever? Is their childhood and old-age not marked with deeper frustration and lack of hope than ever before? And are they not nowadays called upon with greater frequency to undergo the perils of war in order to ensure that their national masters may continue to rule and exploit? Why all this? Let us look closer into [...]


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		<title>Manchester, UK &#8211; The Great Bank Bail-Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 04:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FN Brill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Title: Manchester, UK &#8211; 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 No related posts.


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		<title>Breaking News: SEIU invades Labor Notes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 05:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FN Brill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[10:30 PM Saturday April 12 The Service Employees Industrial Union (SEIU) has sent in several bus loads of members to disrupt the annual meeting of Labor Notes in Detroit. The Labor Notes conference is one of the most important gatherings of rank and file labor activists in Canada and the US. Friends of the WSP at the conference report that an SEIU activist bloodied a 70+ year old female member of Labor Notes. This is an episode in a conflict between the California Nurses Association (Labor Notes vesion) and SEIU (SEIU version) as well as Labor note&#8217;s support of a dissident leader within SEIU. The leader of the CNA and the dissident SEIU leader had been scheduled to be at the Labor Notes annual meeting. Whatever the dispute, this is a disgraceful return to the labor thuggery of the mid-20th Century labor movement. We&#8217;ll update this post as more information is learned.   Update 1 (11:30 PM Pacific) Discussion on the conflict between SEIU and CNA available here. Update 2 (8:45 AM Pacific) From Labor Notes website: SEIU International Backs Away From Debate, Disrupts 2008 Labor Notes Conference    SEIU protesters attempt to storm the banquet at the 2008 Labor [...]


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		<title>Help promote wspus.org</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 04:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FN Brill</dc:creator>
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		<title>Interview With a WSPUS Union Organizer</title>
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		<dc:creator>ROEL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[R. What is the condition of the working class today? How do you see the status of people who work for a living? W. Speaking very generally, in the early 21st Century, it&#8217;s true that certain luxuries are more easily available: it seems that everybody has television, running water, electricity. Certain consumer goods are very available. Food is also widely accessible in the United States as well, unlike in other parts of the world. In some ways, particularly the American working class is in some respects, I think, sheltered from some of the more horrible aspects of global capitalism. At the same time, plenty of statistical and anecdotal evidence suggests that people are working harder and harder, the productivity of the working class continues to rise, measured by the number of goods produced and the value of services rendered, and yet real, monetary income &#8212; the material reward for that work &#8212; has gone down, relative to what is produced. Workers today earn less in real dollars than they did 20-30 years ago. The other thing we have seen happen, particularly in the last 50 years (not that capitalism was ever a stable system for working people anyway), is some [...]


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		<title>Reforms</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 20:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Pritchard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We socialists are often accused of being accused to reforms: social legislation to ameliorate some more or less intolerable situation &#8211; Medicare, Social Security, etc. “Not so,” we respond. We of the World Socialist Movement are not opposed to reforms per se, any more than we advocate them. We do not support or agitate for them precisely on the grounds upon which they are ostensibly presented. For they do not cure the ills to which they are addressed. We contend further that the interest of the ruling powers lies in attracting votes for their various political programs. Witness the reforms, or promises, offered by the politicos in an election year. They are a necessary policy of governments seeking a broader base of support in their efforts to maintain a sufﬁcient degree of viability in the capitalist system; to keep order in a social system whose nature is to engender disorder; to maintain an unstable equilibrium in a system continually facing crisis; and in times of great stress the offering of reforms to a restless and dissatisﬁed populace, helps to provide a “breathing spell” to a badly harassed government. The Roosevelt reforms of the New Deal, immediately following the “Great Depression” [...]


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		<title>On the 50th Anniversary of the Winnepg General Strike</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 23:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Pritchard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been bombarded throughout the past half-century from many quarters to write about this event. Hitherto I have refused, being reluctant to do so, feeling that one cannot deal with events in which one may have been involved and do so with the objectivity necessary. For the same reason I refrain from reviewing books in which I may have been (honorably or otherwise) mentioned. But now, this year being the ﬁftieth anniversary of that historic event, receiving an ofﬁcial request from the Executive Committee of The Socialist Party of Canada, and simultaneously one from The United Steel Workers of America (Canadian Section) I feel I must comply. The Steel Workers, with headquarters in Toronto, will hold their National (annual) Policy Conference in Montreal, May 1st and 2nd this year, and intend to commemorate the Winnipeg’ Strike’s ﬁftieth anniversary and have their proceedings covered by national radio and possibly television. As to the Strike and myself. Contrary to the general opinion I had little or almost nothing to do with it personally, and therefore have very little knowledge of all the ingredients which led up to it. That the panic-stricken authorities pounced on me in their blind fury and were [...]


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		<title>Jack McDonald, 1889-1968</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 22:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. A. McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The socialist movement, small in numbers as it is, has within its ranks a fair representation of so-called civilized man. The majority are not noticeably vocal, nor do they have the ability to express themselves in writing. Another section, albeit possessing certain talents for communicating ideas, are unfortunately constrained to keep their propaganda activities at a minimum, even in some cases to the extent of secrecy. Finally, there are those, all too few, among us who have the knack for imparting knowledge and who have neither the compulsion nor the desire to keep their mouths buttoned. Such was Jack McDonald, without doubt one of the very finest teachers and propagandists in the history of the World Socialist Movement. A column in the &#8220;San Francisco Chronicle&#8221; dated July 6, 1968, informs us that: &#8220;Bookseller McDonald Dies at 79,&#8221; as the result of being struck by an automobile near his home in Oakland, California on July 1, 1968. The column deals briefly with his colorful life and states that he was always proud of his one-time membership in the &#8220;International (sic) Workers of the World&#8221; and that he was a &#8220;life-long radical and supporter of Marxian socialism.&#8221; We do not know who [...]


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		<title>What about the Meantime?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 23:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Irving Cantor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To the Editors: I read your magazine regularly and find it interesting, informative and also puzzling. What puzzles me is that you advocate socialism and at the same time oppose social reforms. I always thought that socialists saw nothing inconsistent in working for the establishment of socialism while at the same time participating in the fight for immediate demands. I believe democratic socialism can be achieved when and if a majority of the people become convinced that it is a desirable alternative to the present order. But I rather doubt that I shall see socialism in my time. In fact I doubt if the generations, old and young, living today will see socialism in their time. Meanwhile people must live in the world as it is here and now. By nature most people desire to improve their lives and the lives of their children; they want to live in decent homes equipped with modern conveniences; to wear fairly good clothes, to eat wholesome food and to offer their kids better advantages. This is why working people turn to politics. That’s why I vote for Democratic Party candidates endorsed by labor. I work in an automobile factory in Michigan. I also [...]


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		<title>Requirements for Membership</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 22:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rab</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What should be the minimum requirements for membership of a Socialist Party? They should be broad enough to include all who are Socialists. There is no justification for barring Socialists from membership. They should be narrow enough to exclude all who are not Socialists. Since the criterion for membership is based on whether an applicant is a Socialist or not,  it becomes necessary to define what is a socialist. Broadly speaking, a Socialist is one who understands that Capitalism can no longer be reformed or administered in the interests of the working class or of society; that Capitalism is incapable of eliminating its inherent problems of poverty, wars, crises, etc.; and that Socialism offers the solutions for the social problems besetting mankind, since the material developments, with the single exception of an aroused Socialist majority, are now ripe for the inauguration of Socialism. This is the Socialist case. It is not difficult to grasp. Membership in a Socialist organization does not require being erudite pundits or profound students. There is a unity of agreement among us that the above is the minimum requirement of being a Socialist. However, there is a justifiable fear that there is a danger that we [...]


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