Joseph Kay
Articles by Joseph Kay, an unemployed recession victim and future bearded weirdo. Also a member of the libcom collective and the Solidarity Federation.
Inflation: rising prices and the 2% pay ceiling
An analysis of the use of inflation to attack workers' conditions.
If the government were to announce that it was cutting the wages of all workers - public and private sector - there would presumably be uproar. And yet this is exactly what they have done by calling for ‘pay restraint’ and insisting all wage rises are capped at 2%. Make no mistake, a sub-inflation pay ‘rise’ is a pay cut. No amount of statistical trickery changes this simple fact.
Политика утверждения или политика отрицания?
Что отличает коммунистическую политику от политики прочих левых? Я бы ответил на этот вопрос так: коммунизм – это политика отрицания, это движение, упраздняющее настоящее положение вещей.
Участники политических дискуссий, особенно в интернете, часто распадаются на два противоборствующих лагеря. В мейнстриме это либералы/консерваторы или левые/правые, у радикалов – марксисты/анархисты или реформисты/революционеры.
Postal strike: picket line interview
The first national postal strike in 11 years happened on Friday 29 June (2007) with a 24-hour stoppage. libcom.org caught up with some pickets on the line in Brighton.
What are the issues behind this strike?
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924
A short biography of the anarchist-influenced writer whose name spawned an adjective for the absurdities of bureaucratic power.
“Our laws are not generally known; they are kept secret by the small group of nobles who rule us … for the laws were made to the advantage of the nobles from the very beginning, they themselves stand above the laws” (Kafka, The Problem of Our Laws)
