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		<title>Ian Paisley and the success of bigotry</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 06:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FN Brill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A month off his eighty-fourth birthday, Ian Paisley announced his impending retirement as the Member of Parliament for North Antrim in the British House of Commons. If he has not retired a very rich man he must have been exceedingly proﬂigate for during much of his political career he was one of Europe’s biggest political earners on salary and expenses simultaneously from the European Parliament, the British Parliament, the various Northern Ireland Assemblies. Additionally, of course, he had invented the Free Presbyterian route to heaven, incorporated it into an established religion catering for anti-Papist bigotry where he enjoyed the paradoxical role of ‘Moderator’. For Paisley it has been a Rags-to-Riches career but whereas some parents leave their children riches in the form of money or property, the wealth that Paisley inherited was of a different coin. It was the vulgar, religious fundamentalism of both his parents. Ironically, in a place where history has injected religious bigotry deep into the culture of the working class it was an inheritance with the potential to be as good as gold In the late 1950’s and early sixties Ian Kyle Paisley surfaced in the media breathing ﬁre and brimstone, proclaiming the Pope to be [...]


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		<title>Support the same old, same old.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 01:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SPGB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you happy with your life? Is your work fulfilIing? No problems getting up in the morning? No stress? No complaints? Good. We&#8217; re perfectly happy too. But there are a group of dangerous fanatics who say that they&#8217;re &#8220;anti-capitalist&#8221;. These groups are threatening everything we hold dear. Because we are basically satisfied with our lot, we want to defend the status quo, and we need your help. Here&#8217;s what YOU can do: LIMIT YOUR VISION Ignore the structural causes of your problems. Pretend that psychological disturbance has nothing to do with social conditions. OK, so stress and depression are the second biggest killers in the western world. But let&#8217;s not imagine that that has ANYTHING to do with how we live our everyday lives. And if you must enquire after causes, only intervene at the individual Ievel. It&#8217;s fine to help depressed &#8211; or, say, homeless &#8211; people on a case-by-case basis. But don &#8216;t look into the social and economic arrangements that brought about their predicament. That would only serve to invite drastic changes. Treat each example of corporate wrongdoing (illegal dumping of toxic wastes, sweatshop labour, etc) as isolated incidents caused by a few corrupt individuals &#8211; [...]


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		<title>Are you a wage slave?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 05:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We socialists like to refer to wage labour as “wage slavery” and call workers “wage-slaves”. Non-socialists may assume that we use these expressions as ﬁgures of speech, for rhetorical effect. No, we use them literally. They reﬂect our view of capitalist society. Socialists use the word “slavery” in a broad sense, to encompass both chattel slavery and wage slavery as alternative ways of exploiting labour. We are aware of the differences between them, but we also want to draw attention to their common purpose. Capitalist language conceals this common purpose by equating chattel slavery with slavery as such and by conﬂating wage labour with free labour. Socialists regard labour as free only where the labourers themselves individually or collectively own and control the means by which they labour (land, tools, machinery, etc.). Why chattel slavery was abandoned The connection between chattel slavery and wage slavery as alternative modes of exploitation is visible in the debates within the British and American ruling class that led up to the abolition of chattel slavery. While religious abolitionists condemned slave-holding as a moral sin, the clinching argument against chattel slavery was that it was no longer the most effective way of exploiting the labouring [...]


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		<title>What is Common Ownership?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 05:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FN Brill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quite simply, the common ownership of the world’s resources and productive capacity is the basis for a reorganisation of society that would ensure plenty of the necessities of life for everyone on the planet &#8211; no more starving, malnourished people, no wandering homeless, no senseless deaths for the want of easily affordable medical care and medicine, no more poverty, unemployment, or inequality. How can this be so? Surely, if it were possible to eliminate these scourges we would have done it long ago. Aren’t we working on these problems anyway? At present we live in a world where the resources of the Earth and the products made from them, the processes needed to make them, and the transportation systems to get them to you, are all owned by private individuals. A company proposes to extract resources or manufacture commodities. It needs money in order to do this. Wealthy people loan the company the necessary capital, but they don’t do it for nothing. They will expect a healthy return on their money every year of say, 10 percent, or 100 000 on every million pounds loaned. If this return is below expectations, then the lenders will withdraw their funds and look [...]


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		<title>8 years of Lula&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 06:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FN Brill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After 8 years of left capitalist rule under the &#8220;Workers&#8217; Party&#8221; President Lula aa Silva, a UN report says Brazil is the most unequal country in Latin America. The richest 10 percent of the population own 50.6 percent of the country&#8217;s wealth, while the poorest 10 percent possess only 0.8 percent of the wealth. Undoubtedly this news will be excused by trotskyists everywhere. No related posts.


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		<title>Demonizing &#8220;Socialism&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FN Brill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Republican faction of the US Capitalist Party has been trying to build a populist movement around an ignorant fear of &#8220;Socialism&#8221;. According to these folks, &#8220;Socialism&#8221; is fascism because of the Nazi&#8217;s &#8220;National Socialism&#8221;. And Socialism is totalitarian because the nationalist movements around Stalinism used the world &#8220;socialism&#8221; for the state capitalism used in their nation building agendas. Here&#8217;s an example of such ignorance mongering. From Phyllis Schlafly: The younger generation probably doesn&#8217;t realize that the word socialism means and connotes a system that is profoundly un-American. Socialism has virtually disappeared from our national lexicon since the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) collapsed because of Ronald Reagan&#8217;s policies and the National Socialist (Nazi) Party was destroyed by the United States in World War II. The American Heritage Dictionary defines socialism as a system of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods are owned by a centralized government that plans and controls the economy. Both Webster and Random House identify socialism as a &#8220;Marxist theory.&#8221; Socialism requires a totalitarian system &#8212; that gives the ruling gang the power to distribute the fruits of other people&#8217;s labor to its political pals&#8230;&#8221; Anyone who has investigated our [...]


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		<title>Beyond Capitalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SPGB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attempts to reform capitalism, whether through parliament or dictatorship, have failed. This leaves conscious majority revolution as the only way forward. Long before capitalism had emerged as the dominant social order and imposed its exploitive social conditions on the working class that it had created there arose within the minds of human beings the dream of a life beyond mere survival. The dream of a freedom and dignity beyond that of some category of slave to a privileged hierarchy that controlled their means of life. The triumph of capitalism and its ongoing development – what Marx referred to as the opening of the womb of social labour – gave strength and reality to the dreamer; opened new vistas of potential wealth and social development. Entirely new social relations nourished a new reality in which a literate and articulate working class would emerge to challenge their masters. In the degrading squalor of 19th century capitalism men and women began debating the substance of their puny dreams; people became politicised to the extent of demanding some amelioration of their miserable conditions as well as an input into the political system that governed their lives. The working class had its martyrs who won [...]


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		<title>Capitalism Must Go</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 20:40:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SPGB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(SPGB election manifesto) These elections are taking place in the middle of the biggest economic and financial crisis since the 1930s. In a world that has the potential to produce enough food, clothes, housing and the other amenities of life for all, factories are closing down, workers are being laid off, unemployment is growing, houses are being repossessed and people are having to tighten their belts. And for once the main parties are being honest in offering more of the same, competing with each other as to which of them is going to impose the most “savage cuts”. Capitalism in relatively &#8220;good&#8221; times is bad enough, but capitalism in an economic crisis makes it plain for all to see that it is not a system geared to meeting people&#8217;s needs. It’s a system based on the pursuit of profits, where the harsh economic law of &#8220;no profit, no production&#8221; prevails. The headlong pursuit of profits has led to a situation where the owners can&#8217;t make profits at the same rate as before. The class who own and control the places where wealth is produced have gone on strike – refusing to allow these workplaces to be used to produce what [...]


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		<title>American Public Opinion and the S-Word</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stefan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In April 2009, interviewers working for the Rasmussen agency asked 1,000 people: ‘Which is a better system – capitalism or socialism?’ 53 percent said capitalism, 20 percent socialism, and 27 percent were not sure. Although ‘capitalism’ came out the clear winner, commentators were shocked that almost half the respondents failed to give the ‘correct’ response on a matter so crucial to the dominant ideology. ‘Capitalism’, ‘socialism’ and ‘the free market’ The interviewers did not define ‘capitalism’ or ‘socialism’, so we are left to guess what respondents understood by these words. No doubt most of those who answered ‘socialism’ did not have a clear or accurate idea of what it means. Nevertheless, socialists can take encouragement from the evident ability of a sizeable proportion of people to resist indoctrination by the corporate media, which never have anything good to say about any kind of ‘socialism’. Even the fact that so many Americans do not react negatively to the S-word itself is significant: people who do not take fright at the word are more likely to be open to consideration of the idea. A clue to how Americans interpret ‘capitalism’ is found in another Rasmussen poll (May 2009). Here people were asked: [...]


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		<title>The market versus cooperation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SPGB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A neighbour goes on holiday and another keeps her greenhouse watered. Then he goes away and she willingly feeds and waters his cat. The local school recruits volunteers from the community for a reading programme to benefit the students. A rota of parents run extra-curricular sports options. An army of volunteers delivers regular meals to the housebound and incapacitated via &#8216;meals-on-wheels&#8217;. Volunteer drivers take the infirm and elderly to doctors&#8217; and hospital appointments or for occasional outings. Youth groups, sports clubs, drama societies, music groups, choirs and orchestras, baby-sitting circles, car-pools, annual fête organisations, donations of books, clothes and household items to charity shops, staff in charity shops, community gardens, environmental projects – all thrive on willing cooperation, on people pulling together for the mutual benefit of all. It&#8217;s what people do. It&#8217;s what people like to do. It&#8217;s what gives many a sense of purpose; to be a useful part of society; to add to the general well-being of a group of people who together make up a community. Cooperating is easy. It&#8217;s natural and it&#8217;s a vital element in building enriched communities, strengthening ties through shared purpose. Difficulties with cooperation arise when the restrictions of the market start [...]


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