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State of Play - some scores from the game in progress.
In the end workers need to fight for greater and greater proportions of the wealth they create not so that they can amuse themselves with bigger and better toys but because only in this way can democracy and freedom be preserved and extended.
So who is keeping score in the great game? Well we rather thought that we should …
"It's the economy, stupid" redux
What does political-economy mean?
It means that the wealth we create as workers is owned and controlled by our masters. The control is political. We create the economy. We create capital. The owners decide what to do with what we've created, once they've paid us wages for what we have agreed to sell our skills for and what they've agreed to buy them for.
What is useful for the capitalists is to make money. Money is the measure of all things for them. Count it. It is a quantitative measure of what they have had us produce. Remember, they control what is produced by us.
"Salt of the Earth" now on You Tube...
The Crime of the Century
http://www.toomuchonline.org/weeklies2008/july2808.html
Michael Perelman, The Confiscation of American Prosperity: From Right-Wing Extremism and Economic Ideology to the Next Great Depression. Palgrave Macmillan. 239 pp.
Economist Michael Perelman has written a whodunit about a heist, but not just any heist. His new book dissects the grandest bit of thievery in modern human history, the robbery that snatched away the economic security of the great American middle class and made America?s rich the richest rich the world has ever seen.
Perelman book
How did all this happen? Perelman takes us back to the initial crime scene, the United States of the early 1970s, a society then completing a quarter-century of unparalleled prosperity. Most Americans had shared in those good times. Most expected them to continue.
August - a good month for crushing a labour movement
(Forwarded from Labourstart)
Protest against ABCC and for dropping of charges against Noel Washington
Demand that the ABCC be abolished and charges be dropped against Noel Washington
When: - Friday August 8th6.30-8.30am
Where: - Kervin Rudd's Electoral Office, 630 Wynnum Road, Morningside
MORE:
http://bushtelegraph.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/construction-workers- campaign-for-equal-rights/
The ABCC has charged an VIC CFMEU official Noel Washington for refusing
to give evidence on discussions with union members, join us in calling
for the abolition of the ABCC and the dropping of charges against Noel
Washington.
Direct Action 1 Aug 2008 Vol.2008 No.1
Correction to back page: Next Melbourne GMB meeting is on Saturday 30th August at Loophole, 834a High Street, Thornbury. Contact delegate for further details.
Oily tongued bourgeois mouthpiece in a veiled way, tells it like it is for once..
From a recent editorial in the very influential bourgeois newspaper, "The Washington Post":
"Yet Mr. Obama's account of his strategic vision remains eccentric. He insists that Afghanistan is 'the central front' for the United States, along with the border areas of Pakistan. But there are no known al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan, and any additional U.S. forces sent there would not be able to operate in the Pakistani territories where Osama bin Laden is headquartered. While the United States has an interest in preventing the resurgence of the Afghan Taliban, the country's strategic importance pales beside that of Iraq, which lies at the geopolitical center of the Middle East and contains some of the world's largest oil reserves. If Mr. Obama's antiwar stance has blinded him to those realities, that could prove far more debilitating to him as president than any particular timetable."
Translation: "The 'global war on terror is just a front. It's all about oil."
A call by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) to the left.
Fellow Workers
As you might have heard a group of politicos (the Revolutionary Socialist Party) (recently split, we are informed, from the Democratic Socialist Party) have taken it upon themselves to expropriate without consultation or compensation, the title of our paper "Direct Action." This was the paper started by the IWW in world war one and brutally suppressed by the government then, restarted by the IWW in the late 1920's and published by the IWW in several editions from 1990.
In this publication of theirs, that they are calling Direct Action, the RSP make reference to the IWW in the past tense only. They make no reference whatsoever to the editions of Direct Action after 1990. This is particularly dishonest because I wrote to them before publication commenced reminding them of our existence and the fact that we maintain ownership of the title "Direct Action".
Questions from a fellow worker in the USA....
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Wobbly: You and I will, when we get organised ourselves and communicate to others and when they help to get their friends organised. This won't come out of nowhere. We're more or less confronted now with the force of circumstance e.g. the North Pole will melt this summer. We'll also become more and more aware that we already run the world; but we run it for some other class, for our rulers' interests.
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Qatar is NUMBER ONE! Greatest per capita CO2/Greenhouse gas emitters ranked here.
Qatar remains on top of the per capita CO2 emissions rankings.
Congratulations go to the rulers of this tiny State in the Middle Eastern region of our planet. They are allowing the globe to be warmed up the fastest and thus are the winners in the climate change promtional sweeps. They are followed by the ruling classes of the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Bahrain and the United States of America. Australia's ruling class comes in 8th place. Not a bad showing really, when you think about it: eighth out of the 176 nations examined at "Nation Master".
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/env_co2_emi_percap-environment-co2-emissions-per-capita
Indonesia is 102, just ahead of Tonga and Zimbabwe. Coming in at 176th and last in the per capita CO 2 emissions race is the ruling class of The Democratic Republic of Congo.
Great little film concerning the issue of shorter work time......
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