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Unemployment and revolution

Posted by keza at 2006-05-23 06:12 AM

I've finally managed to make the whole of the the 1981 paper "Unemploment and Revolution" available on the site. Below is the Contents page cont ...

at 2007-08-31 11:45 PM

I wouldn't say I agreed with everything in this article but, nevertheless, it's really good for you guys! The author does make the point that there ne ...

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"You hate being affluent? Then swap with us." by Ghanaian film-maker De Roy Kwesi Andrew - article at spiked online

Posted by youngmarxist at 2007-08-29 07:58 PM

Ghanian film-maker and teacher De Roy Kwesi Andrew writes "You hate being affluent? Then swap with us" at spiked online magazine. The article de ...

at 2007-08-31 04:15 AM

The UNODC moralizing campaign linked does seem to epitomize the pointlessness (indeed corruption) of funding that type of international bucreaucracy.R ...

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the dotCommunist Manifesto

Posted by kerrb at 2006-12-15 06:12 PM

I think we should discuss the ideas of Eben MoglenThe dotCommunist Manifesto starts with the text of the Communist Manifesto and merges it with the te ...

at 2007-08-27 08:50 AM

moglen versus o'reilly videomoglen
understands the ephemeral and potentially dangerous nature of web2.0
(eg. google aggregates our data centrally in ...

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Pronoia

Posted by arthur at 2007-08-07 07:14 AM

Despite lots of really irritating New Age pantheistic nature worshipping and political stupidities I'm finding the book referenced in Liberate Your Im ...

at 2007-08-08 02:31 PM

I have watched Doctor Who, on and off, with varying levels of enthusiasm, since the 1960s and I think the current series is the best. It's interesting ...

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Netroots YearlyKos convention is being broadcast live on the internet - we could do the same thing quite easily

Posted by youngmarxist at 2007-08-03 06:34 AM

OK, the politics are pretty bland at the YearlyKos convention - it's the right wing (that is, the pro-Democratic-party-at-any-cost wing) of the US ant ...

at 2007-08-03 08:16 PM

I looked at a couple of clips (live not running at the moment). Didn't grab me. Wesley Clark speaking as I write. Way of speaking is clear and effecti ...

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america discovers social class

Posted by kerrb at 2007-07-27 03:33 AM

yeh, it does seem difficult for americans to talk about social classdanah boyd has been brave and it has struck a nerveViewing American class division ...

at 2007-07-27 09:16 PM

In her follow up article danah explains and clarifies why she used the odd phrases hegemonic and subaltern to categorise class division (for me ...

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How long can capitalism survive?

Posted by keza at 2007-05-02 01:57 AM

I've started this new thread for discussion issues raised by cyberman in the global warming thread. I'll cut and paste the rel ...

at 2007-07-27 05:20 PM

Comrade Confused,
To most people, Communism is synonymous with the sort of systems that were in place in Eastern Europe and the USSR. Howe ...

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Let's play "Work"

Posted by youngmarxist at 2007-07-16 04:02 AM

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Union Solidarity - SMS alerts of pickets

Posted by youngmarxist at 2007-07-16 03:48 AM

Via (of all places) "Andrew Landeryou's Blog Of Freedom" comes news of the Union Solidarity website, which has set up a system where you can get SMS a ...

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talking to the right

Posted by keza at 2005-07-20 07:00 AM

AE Brain (whose blog description reads: "Intermittent postings from Canberra, Australia on Software Development, Space, Politics, and Interestin ...

at 2007-07-12 11:59 PM

Lupin3, I don't have a proper answer to your question thought out yet, but I did have a good discussion with a friend of mine yesterday that helped to ...

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Spelling out the "draining the swamps" theory

Posted by keza at 2006-09-07 09:42 PM

This is an attempt by me to spell out the "draining the swamps" argument in one short article. At the moment there's a lot of material sca ...

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at 2007-07-11 04:34 PM

Keza, on of the striking things about the so called "Al Quada" franchise is that it has been so unsuccessful in its stated aims of arousing the A ...

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leaving the left

Posted by kerrb at 2005-05-23 02:51 PM

Keith Thompson has created a stir with his article Leaving the left:
I can no longer abide the
simpering voices of self-styled progressives -- p ...

at 2007-07-09 10:32 PM

Sorry it should be John Negroponte who was US ambassador to Honduras in the early 80s. Not Nicaragua. ...

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What to do about high incomes?

Posted by youngmarxist at 2007-05-25 09:21 PM

Cyberman wrote:Its a good opportunity to explain
what socialism is about and to explain in practical terms the principle
of 'from each according to ...

at 2007-07-04 09:16 AM

There is no way you can tell a person that makes ninty five dollars an hour to change the way they think. Money to them means eveything. In the way th ...

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industrial relations reforms

Posted by kerrb at 2005-06-06 04:06 AM

Barry wrote in the Progressing the debate thread:
And what about a practical struggle that is about to occur over the
industrial relations reforms? ...

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at 2007-06-23 01:39 AM

Comrades,
Here's a interesting little quote for anyone thinking of applying for a job at the new improved, American managed, almost fully privatised ...

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Biased ABC & Prime Minister Allawi

Posted by patrickm at 2004-12-07 11:28 AM

I thought I'd share this reply I wrote to some anti war email I received.
Phony stories from anti war journalists, and the biased ABC (Australian Bro ...

at 2007-06-18 04:59 PM

The posts from GuruJane, patrickm and owenss on the current (June 2007) situation in Gaza have been moved to the new Gaza thread. ...

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Flickr censors users in Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea - and lots of people are angry

Posted by youngmarxist at 2007-06-17 11:20 PM

About a week ago, the popular photo-sharing website Flickr started censoring users in Germany, Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore. A rage of protest ...

at 2007-06-18 12:57 AM

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Iraq Intelligence

Posted by arthur at 2007-06-13 08:55 AM

The US Senate Committee on Intelligence has just released an interesting report on Prewar Intelligence Assessments About Post-war Iraq (10MB .pdf). It ...

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Sedition

Posted by arthur at 2005-12-12 04:19 PM

We're so tame, we think this song isn't about us. Anti-Terrorism (2) Act 2005 (327K pdf document) The pseudos think it's about them.

Actually ...

at 2007-06-09 05:43 PM

Sedition is a word we may hear more of it future. At the moment it's applied only to suspected combatants in the so-called 'War on Terror'. Its good t ...

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Marxism and what will communism be like?

Posted by byork at 2005-09-04 09:49 PM

The revival of sympathetic interest in Marxism implicit in writings by people like Francis Wheen is also apparent in Europe. Jacques Attali, ...

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at 2007-06-05 02:12 PM

David Mc made a comment which cropped up on another thread about the UK SWP being 'social fascists'. I would say that this thread is a more ...

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Socialised Medicine

Posted by youngmarxist at 2007-05-25 01:14 AM

Post by Anita moved from 'industrial relations reform' thread to start this new thread: Hi Cyberman,I don't agree that it's much of a weakness fo ...

at 2007-05-26 07:56 PM

Comrade Keza,
You say: The slogan "make the rich pay" is often used in conjunction with demands for better social services and conditions. ...

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