Winter’s Bone, directed by Debra Granik
Reportback from Class Struggle Anarchist Conference 2009
Get on the bus ... to the Jobcentre
Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith may well have blown his carefully-cultivated image as a 'compassionate conservative' with his recent Tebbit-esque comments arguing the jobless should 'get on the bus' and look for work. But new research by the PCS union shows that he's also completely wrong.
Sometimes We Don't Even Get to the Point of Winning or Losing...
Reading The American Worker and old Italian operaismo surveys of auto workers, it occurred to me that it would be worth documenting some of my own experiences in wage labor. We often forget how powerful and important first person accounts of what happens to us are.
The Secret In Their Eyes, directed by Juan José Campanella
A nation of scroungers?
Following up on the Tories' campaign promise to "cut benefits for those who won't work", the government has unveiled a raft of measures to target "benefit cheats", alongside swingeing cuts to welfare. If we're to believe ministers and most of the press, increasing numbers of scroungers who won't work and expect to live on benefits are one of the reasons for the black hole in the nation's finances.
Libcom bloggers and other site improvements
Labour Intensive, by Sally Madge & Carole Luby
Venezuela: an election lost is an army gained
Ethical consumerism. Well?
Ecuador: the President who cried "¡Golpe!”
Last Thursday, the world was briefly enthralled by events in Quito, Ecuador, where left-leaning President Rafael Correa called his followers out onto the streets via a hospital telephone, claiming that a police and military coup d’etat was in motion against his regime. However, upon closer examination, a different picture - one of popular anger with austerity measures and mass reduncancy - emerges...
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, directed by Niels Arden Oplev
A glimpse into the future of outsourced Britain - expensive, inefficient and on its way
Last month the government's spending watchdog, the Public Accounts Committee, published its report on the Pathways to Work Scheme. The programme, brought in at a cost of over £760 million four years ago, was part of the then government's attempt to target 'welfare cheats' and shift claimants off incapacity benfit and into work.
Poland's Main Unions Resume Attack against Pluralism
Manchester Class Struggle Forum #7 - The Significance of the 1984/85 British Coalminers Strike
The Killer Inside Me, directed by Michael Winterbottom
Bum Deal Bums Me Out
TECHNO-COMMUNISM, a poem
Azteca Bar Conflict and Campaign Against Illegal Deductions in the Food Service Sector
Conflict at Azteca Bar inspiration for wider campaign.