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		<title>Russia: Report of a meeting of the anti-Putin opposition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 01:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Vladimir Sirotin (Moscow), translated with explanatory notes by Stefan Yesterday [January 5, 2012] I was at a sickening meeting of the Organizing Committee for Honest Elections and Against the Putin Regime (or something like that). It was attended by a very ill-assorted bunch of people. Sitting on the platform were Udaltsov, Geidar Jemal, Lev Ponomarev, Ilya Ponomarev, Vladimir Tor, Ivan Mironov, Mr. Krylov and a number of others. (1) The picture looked surreal. The main theme of the overwhelming majority of speakers was that everyone must unite in the fight against Putinism and for honest elections – leftists, liberals and nationalists! This was said quite openly and publicly. “We have here four caucuses: leftists, liberals, Russian nationalists and cultural figures.” Buzgalin spoke briefly. (2) He said that supporters of democracy with social guarantees should unite with supporters of socialism, but it will hardly be possible to cooperate with nationalists. This immediately provoked catcalls from the nationalists present. Very soon he left the meeting. It was constantly said that no part of the anti-Putin coalition should be more opposed to any other part of the coalition than to the Putin regime. Although it was admitted in passing that were it [...]


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		<title>The porn business</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chatsworth is a district of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley, well endowed with parkland and sports facilities. It is home to a number of Hollywood film stars. Many famous films and TV series were shot in the area. Chatsworth is also the world center of the porn business, with 200 production companies employing 1,200 – 1,500 performers (and a few thousand other workers). Here too are the offices of the industry’s trade magazine Adult Video News, which sponsors an annual convention in Las Vegas and an award show modelled after the Oscars. Most performers are poorly educated young women aged 18 – 21. They are attracted by the pay, which seems good compared to other jobs open to them. Rates for a scene range from $200 for a blowjob up to $2,000 for a double anal or gang bang. But a lot of the money goes on supporting drug habits. Former porn star Shelley Lubben, who established the Pink Cross Foundation to help performers trying to get out of the business, explains that they need drugs because without them they would be unable to bear the abuse that the work entails: “Guys are punching you in the face. [...]


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		<title>The &#8220;Troubled Teens&#8221; Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the internet I keep running across the same image – the scowling face of a teenage boy, accompanied by the words: Fix Defiant ODD Children. It is an ad for a “Total Transformation Program” that will “empower” you to “stop defiance, backtalk and lying” and “regain control of your child, your family and your life”. ODD, in case you’re wondering, is the “diagnosis” that psychiatrists now pin on disobedient youngsters: Oppositional Defiant Disorder. Until recently no one had ever heard of it. Numerous programs to “fix” disobedient kids are on offer to American parents. Many are residential programs run by private entrepreneurs in “boot camps” and other locked facilities located both inside and outside the US (in Mexico, Jamaica, Costa Rica, etc.). Or you can send your child off on a gruelling “wilderness expedition” in the harsh desert landscape of the Southwest. Force and deception are routinely used to trap children in these programs, which usually entail physical and/or emotional cruelty, inflicted in the name of “tough love”. Abuse and deprivation sometimes result in death – in particular, when complaints of pain and exhaustion are not believed (see, for instance, nospank.net/boot.htm: Torturing Teens for Fun and Profit). In many [...]


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		<title>Manufacturing the News</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 01:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ROEL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[UPLOADED FOR JOE R. HOPKINS, AUTHOR] Mark Fishman, associate professor of sociology at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, investigated routine news production by examining the work practices of reporters and other news workers. His research findings were published by the University of Texas Press in 1980 in a book entitled Manufacturing the News. At the beginning of his book, Fishman touches on the practical mode of social reproduction by quoting from W. I. Thomas, The Child in America (1928): &#8220;Our picture of how the world works is integrally tied to how we work in the world. By acting in accordance with our conception of the way things are, we concertedly make them the way they are, whether we are treating pieces of paper as money, conducting a routine conversation, or electing a president&#8221; (p. 3). The research setting &#8220;At the time of the study (1973-74), the Purissima Record held a virtual monopoly over news consumption in both the city of Purissima (population 75,000) and its metropolitan environs (population 150,000). The paper&#8217;s daily circulation of 45,000 approximated the number of households in the metropolitan area&#8230; Its news department consisted of 57 full-time reporters, editors, and photographers&#8211;at least four times [...]


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		<title>Inequality or Equality?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SPGB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From a long-term historical point of view, the current highly unequal societies are exceptional, since the vast majority of humans have lived in extremely egalitarian societies. Now the gap between those at the top of society, and the rest of us, is actually getting bigger. Reports from other countries suggest that this is a general trend in capitalism throughout the world. Clearly there are a lot more poor than rich: and since the majority could easily overcome a small minority, why do they not take such an obvious step to put an end to such manifest unfairness? The answer, of course, is the unremitting barrage of propaganda to persuade everyone that rich people are rich because they are in some way better than the rest of us. But in recent years that has been challenged and undermined by the perception of the undeserved wealth of the greedy bankers and financial speculators in the City and Wall St. If we didn&#8217;t know it already, the recession should have taught us that capitalism is simply not a &#8220;fair&#8221; system. There are many more important criticisms that can be levelled against capitalism, but the idea of &#8220;fairness&#8221; – the assumption that the society [...]


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		<title>Drug Dealers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 04:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SPGB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Independent (UK) today reports on the story that SPGB previously reported upon in June of how the pharmaceutical industry preys on the poor to trial new drugs. Clinical trials for new pharmaceutical drugs are a sensitive business. But tests can be expensive. If they go wrong, companies are liable for compensation. No surprise, then, that in a globalised economy this business – like many others – is being outsourced to countries such as India where costs are far lower. In a country of 1.2 billion people, where more than half the population lives in chronic poverty according to a recent UN report, the supply of people willing to take part in tests for very modest fees is inexhaustible. Compensation payouts are a fraction of what they would be in the West. Since restrictions on drug trials were relaxed in 2005, the industry in India has swollen to the point where today more than 150,000 people are involved in at least 1,600 clinical trials, conducted on behalf of British, American and European firms including AstraZeneca, Pfizer, and Merck. Some estimates suggest the industry may be worth as much as £189m. The relationship is so exploitative that some believe it represents a new colonialism. [...]


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		<title>This Land is Our Land</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 04:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SPGB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a time when &#8216;land&#8217; used to refer to those parts of our habitat that were cultivated for food, grazed by animals for hide, wool, meat, milk and fertilisation, and to forests from which timber, firewood and food were collected and also to where communities lived sharing the common wealth. Now, as with everything else one can imagine, land is just another commodity to be bought and sold at the best possible price and to be acquired whatever the consequences for long-term incumbents. So too is everything it can offer – food, fuel, minerals and water – with the added bonus of investment and speculation. The phenomenon of &#8216;land-grab&#8217;, well known now, was originally seen as a way for food insecure and rich countries such as Saudi Arabia and China to gain access to foreign farmland in order to meet the food needs of their own populations. Then came the big push for biofuels following targets agreed by governments at a succession of meetings on climate change. The Worldwatch Institute recently reported that rural populations have been pushed off prime land in 25 sub-Saharan countries for the production of biofuel crops for foreign nations. In other examples, food is [...]


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		<title>Crisis: the stories so far</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jun 2011 05:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SPGB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business As Usual: The Economic Crisis And The Failure Of Capitalism by Paul Mattick. Reacktion Books: 2011. Just yesterday, we were all supposed to believe that the globalisation of capitalism and free markets was the route to freedom, peace and prosperity for all. Then, with barely an explanation, and somewhat out of the blue, the story changed. Now we are to believe that, due to circumstances beyond anyone’s control, prosperity will have to give way to austerity. The good times are over. It is characteristic of crises that the stories we are expected to believe suddenly change. But how can we understand the change? And might there not be better stories than the rather grim and gloomy one we’ve been ordered to swallow? Paul Mattick Jnr’s short book is just such an alternative. For him the crisis signals the complete bankruptcy and destruction of mainstream economics. Why crisis is impossible Why did the crisis appear as a bolt out of the blue? Why was it not expected or anticipated by any economist or mainstream commentator? In short, because there is no place in the standard economic story for crisis, any more than there’s a place for wizards and interstellar travel [...]


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		<title>Class against class</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 22:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SPGB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s exploitation that causes workers’ problems. On an ultra-simplistic level we could say that capitalism in the persona of capitalists uses capital (in its basic form, money) to make a profit. By utilising capital in the form of property, equipment, machinery, investment or speculation the capitalist needs to employ members of the working class in order to increase the original capital for the benefit of the capitalist. This can only be done if the workers agree knowingly or unknowingly to their own exploitation. Why exploitation? In the monetary world society we live in everyone has a need for money on a regular ongoing basis in order to secure the essentials of life. By accepting employment workers undertake to work (knowingly or unknowingly) part of the time for their own remuneration and part of the time in order to meet the capitalist’s need for reinvestment in their business and to augment their accumulation of profit. There are three elements to the capitalist’s expectation in relation to employees. First, workers must be paid sufficient remuneration to keep them returning to work; the terms and conditions of work may change depending on the available source of labour. Second, the capitalist’s own ongoing costs [...]


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		<title>Joseph Dietzgen – The Workers Philosopher</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ALB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was article written by Adam Buick for the journal Radical Philosophy 10. Spring 1975 . JOSEPH DIETZGEN is indeed a neglected philosopher. How many people know that he was the man Marx introduced to the 1872 Congress of the First International as ‘our philosopher’? Or that it was Dietzgen, not Plekhanov, who first coined the phrase ‘dialectical materialism’? Or that for the first thirty or so years of this century Dietzgen’s Philosophical Essays were to he found on the bookshelves of any working class militant with Marxist pretensions? Who, then, was Dietzgen? What were his views? And, indeed, why has he been neglected? Joseph Dietzgen was born in December 1828 near Cologne. His father was a master tanner and it was in this trade that Dietzgen was trained and worked. He was neither, a capitalist nor a propertyless worker but an artisan owning and working his own instruments of production. What distinguished him from other pioneer scientific socialists like Marx and Engels was that he never went to university; he was a self-educated man. Dietzgen was involved in the 1848 rising and after its failure left for America returning, however, after a couple of years. He spent another two [...]


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