Robert Day, a branch secretary with the British public sector PCS in Birmingham, is the winner of the first-ever Labour Photo of the Year competition organized by LabourStart, the news and campaigning website of the international trade union movement. Day’s photo — entitled ‘Trade Unions are Fun!’ — shows trade unionists marching through Birmingham, led [...]
Archive | November, 2008
Thesis Eleven
Clichés clog brains. Around the Left, none will do more mischief in meeting the challenge from the crisis in capital accumulation than two lines from Marx’s so-called “Theses on Feuerbachâ€: “The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.†Parroted by people who should know better, this aphorism [...]
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The ALP’s ditching of social equality has come back to bite it on the stimulus package. On 8 December, single pensioners will find $1400 in our bank accounts. A survey has shown that 40% of recipients are planning not to spend the grant. Instead, we will protect ourselves against the crisis in capital accumulation turning [...]
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