Beyond full employment - Ron Rothbart
Published in Now and After #3, 1978. Unionists, liberals, and leftists call for more jobs, but the revolutionary program is the supersession of alienated labor. Discusses Marx's theory of the surplus population, unemployment, the job as social control, weakening of the tie between income and work, and the abolition of labor.
Where has all my money gone you vile insidious woman?
Submitted by working class s... on Nov 19 2011 14:56
The great privatisation swindle has meant that we are indirectly paying twice for some services. Successive governments has trousered trillions from the legalised thievery that was made popular by 'that woman'. Where has my money gone, and can I have it back please?
The issue of privatisation is a contentious issue for many. I constantly ask myself why I want the state to control a variety of services when I actually want to abolish the state. For me the answer is two-fold. Firstly, the society that I want to see is not about to arrive any time soon, although you never known.
No Future: the sinking of a country into oblivion
Many of you might evoke riots and clashes with the police if one were to utter the word Argentina, as well as recuperated factories ran by workers, popular assemblies, demonstrations, and alternatives against the banking system and politicians.
That’s nice and well.
Oops... stats show benefit cock-ups cost more than fraud
Submitted by Django on Jun 28 2011 17:33
New statistics released this month have again demonstrated that errors at the DWP cost nearly twice as much as fraud by claimants.
On the 16th of June the DWP released a set of statistics running up to December 2010 in their report "Fraud and Error in the benefit system."
Wollongong Out Of Workers' Union interviews
A series of interviews with Wollongong Out Of Workers' Union (WOW) activists in the 1980s, conducted 2005-6 by Nick Southall as part of his honours thesis research, investigating WOW as a project expressing proletarian self-activity.
Working for the class: The praxis of the Wollongong Out of Workers’ Union
Submitted by Steven. on May 6 2011 11:53
Nick Southall's detailed history and analysis of the Wollongong Out of Workers' Union in Australia from 1983-1989, an organisation of unemployed workers he took part in which fought for better benefits and also assisted the struggles of employed workers.
Class Struggle and Crisis
Don’t be told what you want
Don’t be told what you need
There’s no future
There’s no future
There’s no future for you.
(‘God Save the Queen’, Sex Pistols, 1977)
The Rebellion of the Poor Comes to Grahamstown
Statement by the Unemployed People's Movement in Grahamstown, South Africa.
Press Statement by the Unemployed People’s Movement, Grahamstown
Sunday 13 February 2011
The Rebellion of the Poor Comes to Grahamstown
The rebellion of the poor has been spreading from town to town, from squatter camp to squatter camp, since 2004. Last week it arrived in Grahamstown.
The new war on claimants: blaming the victims
Submitted by Django on Mar 17 2011 21:42
With unemployment increasing, and hundreds of thousands more jobs facing the axe as a result of the cuts, the government is setting out new ways to punish the unemployed.
The government is getting tough. Not on bank bosses, whose bonuses are back to pre-crisis levels. Not on tax avoidance by big companies, whose taxes are being cut. No, its the unemployed facing a crackdown.
Revolution Comes Like a Thief in the Night
A reflection, widely published in the popular press in Southern Africa, on the revolts in North Africa.
Life, ordinary life, is meant to follow certain rhythms. We grow, seasons change and we assume new positions in the world. When you have finished being a child you put away childish things and move on to the next stage of life. But there is a multitude of people in this world who cannot build a home, marry and care for their children and aging parents.
Can comment on articles and discussions