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A Cabinet of Looters

Andrew Fisher
14th August 2011 at 07:51
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Most of them were already millionaires, but here’s what they allegedly tried to ‘loot’ from the taxpayer before the MPs’ expenses scandal broke in 2008/09: [continue/comment...]
Tags: coalition government (1) | looting (2) | riots (4)

You’ve never had it so bad

Andrew Fisher
13th August 2011 at 16:27
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Like many others, my youth shaped my politics. Born in 1979, I believe there were several events and experiences that shaped me and the politics I have today. But although growing up under Thatcher – witnessing the bigotry directed at single mothers like my own, the introduction of the Poll Tax, the freezing of the student grant when my sister went to university in 1989 (which appears like a golden age now) – I consider myself lucky. [continue/comment...]
Tags: education (1) | police (3) | riots (4) | unemployment (1) | university (1) | young people (1) | youth (1)

Try the High Finance Looters

Marie Lynam
9th August 2011 at 09:47
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Hello all the comrades
The general press talks of ‘mobs of looters’ (and criminals).  [continue/comment...]

In support of further devolution

carlr
16th July 2011 at 22:35
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Don’t know about anyone else, but I’ve a growing suspicion that we will never, in our lifetimes, see a mass movement aiming to renationalise the utilities and infrastructure of the UK; that we will never see a British government that restates the need for a compassionate society and engineers the institutions to achieve this, and we’ll never see a commitment to full employment (whether 5-day week or not) and economic democracy. [continue/comment...]

On Cuentapropismo In Cuba

Marie Lynam
16th July 2011 at 20:16
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Hello comrades In Cuba, the Communist Party initiative of ‘cuentapropismo’ was presented to the country by the Cuban Trade Unions. The recent Communist Party Congress adopted that initiative. It consists in allowing the setting up of small enterprises working on their own account. Some may be coops, others will be private. They will have the right to hire and fire. It is not clear how their production will fit in the overall plan. The Communist leaders have said that this initiative should give employment to the hundreds of thousands of workers whose State jobs are being suppressed.  [continue/comment...]
Tags: lessons in socialist construction (1)

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