Greece running out of fuel as customs officers extend strike
Submitted by taxikipali on Feb 19 2010 09:25
Serious fuel shortages are spreading across Greece as customs officers decide to extend their strike against austerity measures until Tuesday.
Long lines of cars are to be seen in petrol stations across greece as fuel is running out after an extension of customs officers industrial action against the neoliberal austerity measures imposed by the government on the pretext of the national credit crisis.
New week of strikes in Greece
Submitted by taxikipali on Feb 16 2010 09:07
Customs officers, petrol carrying lorries, taxi drivers and Ministry of Economics workers go on strike this week against the austerity measures.
After the end of the bleakest carnival since the collapse of the junta, a new wave of strikes is threatening to bring Greece to a standstill.
A Marxist Political Economy of Capitalist Instability and the Current Crisis - Hillel Ticktin
Hillel Ticktin on a Marxist political economy of the financial crisis of 2008-9 and capitalism's uncertain future.
[i]The article considers whether there are limits to capitalist strategies for survival. It argues that the present downturn represents a crisis in the capitalist system itself, in that the mediating forms by which it could maintain control and grow have reached their limits.
Public sector strike paralyzes Greece
Submitted by taxikipali on Feb 10 2010 09:47
The 24h public sector general strike supplemented by private sector strikes has brought Greece to a standstill with no airplanes flying in or out the country.
It is the first big strike in Greece since the announcement of the austerity measures by the socialist government last week.
Ben Goldacre debunks media claims about the Public Sector "gravy train"
Submitted by Django on Jan 13 2010 18:08
Some of you may have noticed a pair of stories in the Sunday Times and the Telegraph respectively claiming that "public sector pay is racing ahead in the recession".
The stories claim that public sector workers earn on average 7% more than their counterparts in the private sector, despite declining productivity. The message is straightforward enough. In the words of Graeme Leach, chief economist and director of policy at the Institute of Directors, “It is ridiculous that pay and perks have risen when public sector productivity has fallen.
Comments on crisis: Stop looking into the headlights
Various thoughts from Prol-Position on the financial crisis beginning in 2008.
The following are rather more preliminary and turmoiled thoughts in turmoiled times than a collectively debated position...
It’s a production affair!
Russia. At the bottom.
Short article about the situation in Russia. Has been released as an introduction to the ARS magazine "Maximalist".
One must be lazy to not talk of the crisis nowadays. In a song defiantly titled “Anticrisis”, Seva, a popular Russian Internet rapper, even raps about smiling more and taking chances to free ride as the crisis endures.
Promissory Notes: From Crisis to Commons
Historical overview of the recent financial crisis from the North American autonomist Marxist group Midnight Notes Collective
"There will be blood" warns greek labour minister as crisis deepens
Submitted by taxikipali on Dec 26 2009 15:41
The Labour minster of the socialist government in greece has expressed fears of bloodshed due to the measures set to be imposed in the next 3 months in response to the debt crisis of the country.
Mr Lomberdos the Minster of Labour of the socialist party (PASOK) ruling greece since October this year has expressed worries that the measures needed to lift the national debt crisis that is threatening to kick greece out of the euro-zone might result in bloodshed. "There is little we can do to prevent that" he added, days after his resignation from office was overruled by the PM.
Global crisis, global proletarianisation, counter-perspectives - Wildcat
We are entering a world historical situation where all track switches of social-economic and political life are newly aligned. It will be the second epochal change for my generation after the period of 1967-1973. All the main facts and indicators of the last weeks point to the start of a world economic crisis which already now exceeds the extent of the 1973 crisis and of the intervening crises of 1982 and 1987. The current crisis is approaching the dimensions of the worldwide crisis and subsequent depression of 1929-1938.
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