Blog archive - June 2011

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Hungarian workfare - a new army of slave labour

carlr
29th June 2011 at 06:38
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The Hungarian government has announced a new Hungarian Work Plan aimed at increasing the low employment rate in Hungary. As a post-communist country, subjected to Shock Therapy in the 1990s, some areas of Hungary have suffered unemployment rates over 40% continually over the last 20 years. http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-01-24-rowlands-en.html [continue/comment...]
Tags: international solidarity hungary trades unions

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Can Labour Straighten Out?

carlr
28th June 2011 at 14:39
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In Roald Dahl’s seminal work ’The Twits,’ Mr and Mrs Twit suffer the most terrible fate, that of the ’shrinks.’ This was, of course, a result of their heads being glued to the floor, by a rebellion of exotic birds and monkeys. Contrary to the concerns represented in the media following the scale of last year’s defeat, the real danger for the party is not a shift to the hard, Maoist/Stalinist/Trotskyist left. It is the political equivalent of the shrinks that truly threatens. The real danger for the party is that the interior is so atrophied and hollow after such a long period of head-standing and abjugation, that faced with a clever, opportunist Conservative leadership, the party will simply shrivel and shrink from direct, full criticism of Tory policy.  [continue/comment...]

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May NC minutes

Andrew Fisher
25th June 2011 at 10:03
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Present: J. Atkinson, G. Bash, P. Firmin, A. Fisher, P. Hall, D. Holland, O. Jones, J. Lennox, J. McDonnell, J. Moloney, N. Moore, G. Nardell, M. Phipps, S. Press, C. Shawcroft, C. Watson, L. Whittle.
Apologies: S. Appleby, S. Black, S. Brown, M. Catterall, M. Exall, S. Evans, J. Fisher, G. Heather, T. Knight, V. Morris, J. Oosthuysen, F. Prideaux, J. Rogers, M. Thompson, N. Toms.
D. Goodliffe had resigned as Leeds LRC delegate, having moved.
Apologies: J. McDonnell & G. Nardell for leaving early for Lambeth anti-cuts event.
Minutes of NC of April:
P. Hall & D. Holland to be added to apologies.
Date for meeting in the North east referred to the EC. [continue/comment...]
Tags: national committee

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Not Re-Founding Labour, Founding It

Marie Lynam
21st June 2011 at 15:58
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Hello all The document from Stan Keable (Marxist Labour) is on the right track. I propose that Stan calls a public meeting on the subject, making sure to invite all the organisations of Labour. [continue/comment...]