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Monday, 31 December 2012

The world economy: prospects for 2013

Posted on 01:01 by Unknown
by Michael RobertsWhen I sat down to write this post on the prospects for the world economy in 2013, I thought I’d better check back to see what I said this time last year about 2012.  After all, economic forecasting has a well-deserved, terrible reputation for inaccuracy. It’s mostly useless, or at least mainstream economics is pretty hopeless at it. There is no space in this post to explain the reasons why – maybe another time.But anyway,...
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Posted in marxism, world economy | No comments

Sunday, 30 December 2012

Workers' Party and the Israeli elections

Posted on 11:26 by Unknown
I want people in Cairo to know that in Israel there are revolutionaries seeking change. Social justice cannot exist without real peace. The protest movement is our hope, everyone's hope that here will arise, in the State of Israel, for the first time in history a political, social, economic alternative sane, human, fair, that knows how to be part of the region where it's located. For 64 years we've lived in a ghetto. The time has come to get out of the ghetto! Israel has to stop isolating itself. You lie to us about something so important,...
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Saturday, 29 December 2012

Wal-Mart will police Labor conditions at US suppliers.

Posted on 10:39 by Unknown
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Friday, 28 December 2012

ILA strike averted, contract extended 30 days

Posted on 19:16 by Unknown
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Posted in labor, strikes, worker's struggle, workers | No comments

Wednesday, 26 December 2012

The fiscal cliff, Okun’s law and the Long Depression

Posted on 18:41 by Unknown
Add captionby Michael RobertsPresident Obama and the Republican-held US House of Representatives are locked in a battle to find a way to overcome what has been called ‘the fiscal cliff’ that the US economy faces in the New year. The fiscal cliff describes the automatic rise in various taxes and reductions in government spending that will be applied from the beginning of 2013.This is going to happen because there is a range of tax cuts and exemptions...
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Posted in capitalism, marxism, politics, US economy | No comments

Tuesday, 25 December 2012

Pope: abortion and gay marriage "threat to world peace".

Posted on 15:32 by Unknown
 Pope Benedict: “In the 1970s, paedophilia was theorised as something fully in conformity with man and even with children,”by Frankie DurrThe head of the Vatican state has been praying for hours for peace and other such things as popes have done for centuries when they haven’t been warring and colonizing, spreading Jesus’ word, or their version of it. The Vatican’s public relations managers tell him that the average person would love to have...
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Monday, 24 December 2012

Indian protesters defy law as Manmohan Singh calls for "calm"

Posted on 08:37 by Unknown
Manmohan Singh, India's Prime Minister is calling for calm as protesters defy bans and battle with police for a second day in response to the rape of a young woman by a number of men on a bus, including the driver. She is alive but on life support.So far six have been arrested including the driver.The daily harassment and sexual violence against women is an epidemic in India often suppressed  until breaking out in New Delhi with these protests against such brutality.  The injuries to this woman are horrific.  The demonstrators...
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Sunday, 23 December 2012

Epidemic of rape and harassment of women in India

Posted on 21:32 by Unknown
Police beat and attacked protesters that erupted after the raping of a woman who was thrown from a moving bus after her ordeal. She is in hospital in critical condition. Here is an interview with one activist....
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Posted in domestic violence, india, sexism, women | No comments

Saturday, 22 December 2012

Newtown massacre and the debate about gun ownership

Posted on 16:35 by Unknown
As to be expected, the local paper yesterday had yet more extensive coverage of the aftermath of the Newtown CT massacre and the need for gun control, in particular the banning of assault rifles. For the uninitiated, an “assault rifle” is one that is semi-automatic meaning that each time you pull the trigger, the spent cartridge is ejected and another shell enters the chamber while an automatic is a weapon that fires continuously as long as you have...
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Posted in capitalism, gun rights, youth | No comments

Tuesday, 18 December 2012

US Media having a field day with Newtown Killings: Politicians cover the bases

Posted on 14:54 by Unknown
Another tragic scene too familiar in the USThe media madness after the mass killings in Newtown continues.  It is yet another unimaginable tragedy and we are filled with sadness for those whose loved ones died here. The politicians that preside over the mass murders of hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children around the world are concerned so they say. Senator Joe Manchin, a Democrat who receives an "A" rating and no doubt lots...
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Japan election: lowest turnout since records began

Posted on 01:00 by Unknown
by Michael RobertsJapan’s main centre-right pro-capitalist party, the Liberal Democrats (LDP), under Shinzo Abe has won a landslide victory in Sunday’s general election for the lower House of Representatives.  So the party that was invented by the Americans after the second world war to consolidate capitalist democracy in Japan and has held power for most of the succeeding 65 years, has been returned again after four years of being in...
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Monday, 17 December 2012

A US ambassador's tough life. Botswana? "No thanks."

Posted on 11:23 by Unknown
US ambassador's UK homeby Richard MellorAll this talk of "Government by the people for the people" sounds good, but "which" people are we talking about is important to understand.  "The people" are not all equal in a class society such as ours. I had some guy tell me the other day that he was a capitalist but there's no "capitalist class" so I guess the US Chamber of Commerce, the Business Round Table and the National Association of Manufacturers...
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Newtown slaughter, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and Drones.

Posted on 10:44 by Unknown
It is a tragedy what happened in Newtown Connecticut, 28 people dead, 20 of them children. I cannot watch it for a number of reasons. One is the sorrow I feel for the children and their families and genuine sympathisers. Then there is the hypocrisy of the rest of the squads that are flocking to the area. The wimp Obama  in the lead. These tragedies must end he bleats. But even though he is in his last term and does not have to win re-election he backs away from taking on the NRA. Then the mass media the same. I am not in favor of taking...
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Sunday, 16 December 2012

Oops!. Ten kids killed in Afghanistan. Thank you Bradley Manning.

Posted on 22:25 by Unknown
Oh, well, looky here. I read tonight that a land mine in Afghanistan killed ten young girls.  Two others were killed in a land mine explosion. These silly girls were collecting firewood and one of them, perhaps the most "silly" hit the land mine with an axe. The media says that most of those killed were between nine and eleven.  These unexploded devices are  a major problem in Afghanistan.  Most of these weapons were manufactured in the US.  We can be proud that we, the US, is the largest arms manufacturer in the world...
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Commentary on "The mass killings in Newtown"

Posted on 14:02 by Unknown
by Jack GersonSome of you may have already read the piercing comment that Gary (one of this blog's regular readers) wrote in response to Richard Mellor's "The mass killings in Newtown, Conn. have deep social roots".  Gary's comment really resonated with me. Here's Gary's comment in full, followed by a bit more from me:!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Cambria; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions...
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