Oh yeah! Those damn firefighters earn too much money don't they. Their pensions are too high aren't they. All they do is sit around the firehouse all day waiting for something to do don't they. But when they go to work sometimes this happens. Donald Trump and the coupon clippers earning $5 billion a year doing no productive labor are a strain on the economy, not these guys.AP19 firefighters have died battling a fast-moving wildfire. Forestry spokesman Art Morrison says the firefighters were caught by the fire Sunday afternoon...
Sunday, 30 June 2013
"The United States would be better off monitoring its secret services rather than its allies". * So says the Luxembourg foreign minister Jean Asselborn on learning through the documents leaked by Edward Snowden that EU offices in Washington were bugged. It's not that other countries don't have spy agencies it's that the US surveillance industry is so vast and penetrating storing personal information from millions of its own citizens.The extent of US spying revealed by Snowden boggles the mind and has placed considerable strain on US capitalism's...
Saturday, 29 June 2013
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A quick note:According to local news outlets, transit union officials have asked California governor Jerry Brown to impose a 60 day cooling off period, in other words to "stay" a strike. I tried to locate the source of this story which was the San Jose Mercury news but couldn't access the page. Assuming it is the case which isn't surprising, it is normal procedure.Union officials have no intention of waging a serious strike in defense of their members' wages and benefits, the hope is that the threat of one would bring fewer concessions...
Thursday, 27 June 2013
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As I pointed out in a blog the other day, the NSA says it is only interested in any one of the billions of personal e mails and phone calls people make if there is a reason to target someone. It's a bit like Iraq when the US flunkie Saddam Hussein ruled. You were in no danger as long as you stayed out of politics. Your NSA info may never be scrutinized unless you become politically active in opposition to the present crowd of thugs here...
Wednesday, 26 June 2013
by Michael RobertsJust a couple of months ago, mainstream economic analysts were lauding the record high stock market prices as an indicator that the global capitalist economy was well on the way to recovery, thanks to the efforts of central bankers like Ben Bernanke at the US Federal Reserve in applying ‘unconventional’ monetary policy called quantitative easing (QE) to boost liquidity and keep interest rates near zero. In various posts,...
Good. But "united" around what?by Richard MellorAfscme Local 444, retired " Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table." George SchultzBay Area Rapid Transit (BART) is the main urban rail system for the San Francisco Bay Area and the Unions representing BART workers are currently in contract negotiations. The economic impact of a BART strike...
Monday, 24 June 2013
Facts For Working People shared Clare Daly's speech on our FB page and add it here on our blog. We commend Clare for her comments and for standing up for working people everywhere. The US Congress could do with a few politicians like Clare. She is an independent member of the Irish Parliament for Dublin North....
Snowden: being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is an honorby Richard MellorSo it appears Edward Snowden, who, like Bradley Manning, has done us all a favor by exposing the rotten nature of the regime in Washington, is somewhere between Russia and Cuba or Cuba and Ecuador.The whole affair reveals the declining influence of US imperialism on the global stage as bullying and threats have so far failed to produce Mr. Snowden. Hong Kong authorities...
Sunday, 23 June 2013
The Wild Bunch: Friends of Syrian capitalismby Richard MellorSupporters of this blog have made it clear that this blog supports neither side in the Syrian conflict. The nature of the Assad regime is well known but the forces opposed to him are not dominated by friends of the Syrian working class. Not having contacts on the ground there limits our ability to comment but with the victories the Assad regime have chalked up in the past week or...
Friday, 21 June 2013
by Stephen MorganMore than one million people in over 100 cities in Brazil have taken to the streets as President Dilma Rousseff postponed a trip to Japan to hold an emergency meeting about the crisis. Britain's Independent is reporting that more than 300,000 people protested in Rio de Janeiro and another 100,000 in Sao Paulo, as part of an escalation of nationwide unrest from "the Amazon jungle city of Belem, Porto Alegre in the south, the university town Campinas north of Sao Paulo and the northeastern city of Salvador." The New...
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
The Scottish Socialist Party's Colin FoxFrom Frontline, an independent Scottish Marxist Journal. Via Links an International Journal of Socialist Renewalby Colin FoxI attended the Frontline fringe meeting on ‘The prospects for Left unity’ at the Scottish Socialist Party conference in Edinburgh recently and enjoyed listening to Gregor Gall (SSP) and Pete Ramand (ISG) outline the issues facing us. Whilst nothing new arose from the discussion it ...
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