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The social system we live under is capitalism, the profit system. It is
a world-wide system. It exists in China and Cuba, just as it exists in
Britain and the USA. Under capitalism, the means and instruments for
production and distribution (l
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Anyone with money enough to travel will know that there are still
pockets of calm here and there on this planet, but what is becoming
increasingly difficult to deny is that the world is a mess and is
becoming a bigger and more horrible mess a
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The only way to stop capitalism plunging the world even deeper into the
mire is for the working class to look beyond the confines of the profit
system.
All systems of private property society pass through periods of
ascendancy or progressio
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Those who defend capitalism are often forced to extremes of distortion
and special pleading in support of a system which exploits and
oppresses so many. As apologists for class privilege and the profit
motive, they attempt to convince us that
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For plenty of workers 2002 will be a horrible year.
Many will have jobs they hate, but are desperate not to lose. Others
will have no job and will face another year of the hassle and hardship
that entails. Some will have no homes. Thousands
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Who knows what the next year will bring?
Could be better than 2001. It could hardly be worse! Maybe this will be
the year when governments "come to their senses" and say, "That's
enough of war - in future we'll all get on well together and
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YES UTOPIA ! we have the technology. Ron Cook. Self published.
Available on-line at www.nospine.com. £1, $1.50; or as a 191-page
paperback produced to order by the author for £5 plus postage (£1.50
UK, £3 overseas). Order from Ron Cook, 1
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-Well, this is it!
This is what?
-The new year in the brand new century a row of virginal 0s waiting
to be filled in.
So what?
-So . . . so, it's time to take stock.
Of what?
-Of where we are . . . who we are. History.
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Capitalism is a sick society and we do not hesitate to say so. Nor do
we hesitate to say that Tony Blair and David Blanket from the Labour
government (or alternatively William Hague and Ann Widdecombe from the
Conservatives) could double the
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It was Christmas morning and little children lay half-snuggled,
half-sleeping in their beds awaiting the miracle of the gifts as
advertised on TV and available for a price in their local shops.
Parents toss and turn in the next room thinking
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As vilification of the Taliban regime gears up, with the western
leaders taking the moral high ground (and conveniently forgetting the
assistance they gave to the Taliban and islamic extremism in general),
another example of state repression
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The refrain of war supporters, in every war, is "Well, what would you
do instead?", whenever they are confronted by opponents. The typical
responses to this challenge fall into three general camps:
1.Woolly liberals who favour 'talking' and
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Hi Barry &all
Barry in one of his many posts quotes from what Marx and Engels said
in the 1840s and 1850s about socialism/communism not being then
immediately possible.
Doesn't he realise that we are now living in the 21st century?
In
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As the people of Afghanistan continue to be bombarded with bombs, the
working class of the US, Britain etc. are bombarded with "news" via the
printed and (especially) broadcast media.
You may well be familiar with the effects at home, work o
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Hi Barry &all
Barry Stoller wrote:
> The WSM sucks!
Wow. What a way to get taken seriously.
According to your logic then, you must blow.
> The WSM criticize all actual socialism, supporting only the
'socialist
> ideal.'
What you think
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No, not the hate-filled hijackers and murderers who killed thousands of
our brothers and sisters in New York last month.
The other ones - the aviators of the US armed forces, who have
completed
what the Soviet military and no end of squalid
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Hi Barry &all
I'll ignore your jibes comparing us to the Ayn Rand supporters, but
the rest of your post isn't much more coherent.
The best way to make Socialism unachievable is to support something
else (some form of capitalism) under th
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It was good to hear of the anti-war demonstrations that took place
recently in cities around the world, including Washington. It is
heartening that many workers are refusing to accept this latest march
towards bloodshed, despite the war pr
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A brief look at the Guardian's recent 'Giving List'
Among all the league tables and the sport of naming and shaming there
is a comparative newcomer the Giving List. In the US since 1996 a
league table known as the Slate 60 of the top Amer
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A brief look at the Guardian's recent 'Giving List'
The Guardian issued a supplement entitled "The Giving List" detailing
which companies in Britain gave most and least to charity. It comes as
no surprise that business donated £0.68bn whil
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It was good to hear of the anti-war demonstrations that took place
recently in cities around the world, including Washington. It is
heartening that many workers are refusing to accept this latest march
towards bloodshed, despite the war pr
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What would happen would be the same as happened in Japan over interest
rates. The government there thought that what has been discouraging
investment was not low profit prospects but too high interest rates. So
they reduced short-term interes
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The call for a Tobin tax - a tax on financial transactions - is not
"anti-capitalist", as some in the "anti-globalisation movement" seem to
think
It is all very well being against something but if this is to be
anything more than permanentl
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Vast areas of the world, the "post-colonial" zones are still dedicated
to low value yielding primary products such as mono-crop agriculture
and mining. Most of the increased trade remains between the
industrialised manufacturing centres. The
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The World Trade Organisation represents the interests of the capitalist
class and is a product of the lessons they have learned for protecting
their system
The World Trade Organisation is not to blame. Capitalism is. Although
the WTO has emb
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The onset of recession across the developed world should really come as
no surprise in the capitalist economy bust inevitably follows boom
just as night follows day.
It would be fair to say that currently even the more astute of the
vario
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The events of 11 September have had many repercussions foremost
amongst them being a deepening of the financial insecurity pervading
much of the world economy. Nowhere has this been exemplified more than
in the major industrialised states a
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George W. Bush has said that the best way to keep "peace" is to
redefine war on his own terms. Our own war against Bush and his ilk,
the class war, needs no redefining.
Whatever the post-Taliban set-up in Afghanistan one thing is a forgone
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