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		<title>Film Review. The Iron Lady</title>
		<link>http://wspus.org/2012/02/film-review-the-iron-lady-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The film The Iron Lady is a paean to a personality rather than a political documentary, and must be judged as such. The personal is political, however, and therefore anyone who lived through what happened in Britain in the 1980s will have some reaction to the politics of this film. Meryl Streep&#8217;s acting, as ever, is extraordinary and this is by far the most remarkable thing about this film. Most of the action effectively takes place inside Thatcher&#8217;s head, as her senile dementia filters a mish-mash of memories, regrets, resentments and pride over the course of her career. This allows the film some poetic license in its random and one-sided presentation of historical events. This device enables, as it were, a multitude of sins, as we are allowed only the most cursory of glances into the dogmatic arrogance of her rule or the huge suffering and destruction of life which her governments both oversaw and caused. We are invited to share in her principled stand that “we must never give in to terrorists” without even so much as a clue that she was simultaneously financing and sponsoring terror on a vast scale through her support of foreign dictatorships and the sales [...]


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		<title>Profit Freedom Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 03:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“You could have to work for 134 days each year just to pay your tax bill” (their emphasis) read the headline of a full page HSBC ad in the Times (16 March). “Income Tax, National Insurance, VAT, car tax . . . it all adds up. In fact, in 2009 the average Briton had to work 134 days before they had earned enough to pay their taxes”. The source was given in the small print at the bottom of the page as the Mad Marketeers of the Adam Smith Institute who each year calculate a “Tax Freedom Day” as the day when people supposedly begin to keep the income they “earn” instead of it going to the taxman. According to the small print, “This is calculated with the total tax paid each year by a taxpayer on average income, including indirect taxes, local taxes and National Insurance contributions.” Actually it is not calculated in this way at all. What is calculated is total government tax revenue as compared to “net national income”, but instead of presenting this as a percentage – 36.7 percent – it is presented as a number of days out of a year (134/355 is the same [...]


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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>The Russian Revolution recalled</title>
		<link>http://wspus.org/2008/12/the-russian-revolution-recalled/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even 90 years after the Russian revolution there are still some who claim that the event shines as a beacon for socialism. We were able to say at the time that whatever was happening in Russia it was not a socialist revolution. In August 1918 the Socialist Standard pointed out that, while there were industrial towns in Russia, the country was largely agricultural with about 80 per cent of the population still living on the land. The answer to the question whether “this huge mass of people” (about 160 million), which indeed included some industrial and agricultural wage slaves, was “convinced of the necessity and equipped with the knowledge requisite for the social ownership of the means of life?” was “No!”; beyond the fact that the leaders in the November movement claimed to be Marxian socialists there was no justification for terming the upheaval in Russia a Socialist Revolution. Our analysis of the situation was based upon Marx’s definition of capitalism as a relation of wage-labour and capital and on the conditions necessary for that relation to be ended and replaced by socialism. Before “the Communistic abolition of buying and selling, of the bourgeois conditions of production”, as the Communist [...]


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		<title>May 1968 &#8211; The Revolution that wasn’t</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 06:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SPGB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What might have happened if, forty years ago, workers in France had taken over the factories and tried to keep production going. 1968 saw an outbreak of protest in various parts of the World. Much of it was very violent and the main thrust of this protest was in France and in America, where a longer-term campaign was being pursued. To a lesser extent, again, some of them very violent, demonstrations took place in Germany and in this country. No doubt there were some links between these various protests but it was also true that the background in each country was very different. For example, in America there was the civil rights movement being organised by blacks, and of course there was no element of this in what was happening here or in France. The civil rights movement was beginning to find its feet in Northern Ireland; here again, the background was different with its strong element of catholic/protestant conflict. In Europe, many of the main activists were Trotskyists or anarchists. In America the hippy movement was much stronger than it was here. One common feature was the protest against the Vietnam War and this was linked with the opposition [...]


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		<title>Socialist Standard &#8211; Sept.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 05:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monthly Publication of the Socialist Party of Great Britain since 1904 Featured in this issue: Who controls the world: the Illuminati or the Market? Why do some people think the world is run by a shadowy group called the Illuminati? Who were they? Hot Air Since the 1997 Kyoto Protocol little substantial has been done to address the the problem of climate change. The Single issue The futility of the ever-increasing single issue campaigns is clear for all to see. Could it be because they are being reactive rather than proactive? No related posts.


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		<title>Trotskyists Get It Wrong &#8211; Again</title>
		<link>http://wspus.org/2007/08/the-second-international-and-war-a-correction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest issue of Socialist Worker (25 August) of the Socialist Workers Party (UK) carries an article on the Stuttgart Congress of the Second International which took place a hundred years ago. According to the author, John Riddell, the Congress “took a bold stand in the struggle against capitalist war”. No, it didn’t. The big set piece debate was on militarism and anti-militarism. Some of the French delegates wanted the Congress, in the words of a motion proposed by Gustave Hervé, “to answer any declaration of war, from whatever side it may come, by military strike and insurrection” (an anticipation of Lenin’s “turn war into a civil war”, though Lenin didn‘t vote for it). This was opposed by August Bebel on behalf of the German party. There were good grounds for opposing it, in particular because if not enough workers were socialist-minded and the representatives of capital still controlled the State it was likely to lead to a bloodbath. But it was not on this ground that Bebel opposed it. Basically, he didn’t want to rule out the possibility of Social Democrats supporting a so-called “defensive” war. Nor was he against a country having armed forces; he just wanted them [...]


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		<title>The Banks Couldn&#8217;t Save Themselves</title>
		<link>http://wspus.org/2007/08/the-peril-of-moralism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ALB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have been going for over a hundred years and over that period have come across all sorts of theories as to the cause of and solution to the problems facing society and wage and salary workers in particular. One set are those who say that the answer lies in some reform of the monetary system and who are known, perhaps ungenerously, as &#8220;currency cranks&#8221;. They go back a long ago way, and were even found amongst the Chartists in Britain in the 1830s and 1840s. They argue that banks are the problem: that they can create credit (money, purchasing power) by a mere stroke of the pen, which enables them to exploit the rest of society through charging interest on this. With our knowledge of how capitalism works &#8212; how surplus value, the source of all rent, interest and profit, is created by workers at the point of production &#8212; we have always argued that this is not the case. Banks are just intermediary financial institutions, borrowing money from some to lend to others. They have no special powers to create purchasing power out of nothing. They merely redistribute it. Only the government can create extra token money. The [...]


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		<title>War, Plots and Civil Liberties</title>
		<link>http://wspus.org/2006/09/war-plots-and-civil-liberties/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Sep 2006 05:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Was there really a plot to blow up transatlantic airliners or were the police just using a pretext to fish for information by rounding up and questioning people they suspected were up to something without knowing precisely what? Will ministers eventually say, as they did after the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes and after the raid on that house in Forest Gate when another innocent man was shot, that it’s better to err on the side of safety? Better a few innocents are shot than a terrorist act in which hundreds die? Whatever the truth, the “security alert” last month in which a terrorist attack was said to be “imminent” allowed the state to project itself as the defender of the public. It is no such thing. The state is controlled by pro-capitalist politicians who pursue policies they consider to be in the general interest of British capitalism, even to the extent of putting the lives of the general public at risk. The present government, led by Blair, has decided that it is in the best interest of the British capitalist class to tag along behind the US government’s global pretensions, especially its so-called “War on Terror&#8221;, which is [...]


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		<title>The Elections in Iraq</title>
		<link>http://wspus.org/2006/09/the-elections-in-iraq/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Sep 2006 05:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SPGB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the end of the Second World War, when the US forced the Italian government to discharge its Communist Party cabinet members as a prerequisite for aid, to its support for the coup attempt in Venezuela in 2003, the US has been regularly subverting elections around the globe for the beneﬁt of its own corporate elite. Ever fearful that foreign governments might, among other things, introduce labour and environmental legislation detrimental to US investments, Washington has opposed the principle of democracy on almost every continent, even helping to overthrow democratically elected governments whenever it felt its interests threatened (e.g. Iran in 1953, Guatemala 1954, Congo 1960, Ecuador 1961, Bolivia 1964. Greece 1967, Fiji 1987). Nor have its methods been peaceable. Indeed its agents in the CIA have carried out assassination of prominent individuals with as much indifference as its embassies have supported right-wing death squads and bloody coup attempts throughout Central and South America. Across the world, the US has backed dictators of every hue, turning a blind eye to their horrendous affronts to the democratic process. We are now to believe that the US, presently occupying “sovereign Iraq” (for President Bush has declared Iraq is now “sovereign”), a country [...]


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