Haiti
- An Un-natural Disaster
The
earthquake in Haiti and similar misfortunes are presented as
unavoidable natural disasters. To some extent, this is true. But it
ignores the consequences of the deliberate pursuit of profit at the
expense of environmental protection. It is not a coincidence that the
number of victims of recent disasters such as the Asian tsunami and the
Katrina hurricane and now Haiti are clearly related to the degree of
their poverty.
The reality with earthquakes is they kill only if we let them. They are
inevitable, but the death toll is not.
It is collapsing buildings that take lives, not tremors in the
ground. Throughout the animal kingdom, creatures have adapted to
survive in their surroundings, but in our environment, where
earthquakes are a fact of life, though nature challenges us to do
something to protect ourselves, capitalism compels us to surrender
safety to monetary profits and savings...
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Saturday, 27th March, at 4.00pm* "The Road to Socialism - Kropotkin, Morris and Marx"
Forum with Brian Morris (Author of "Kropotkin:
The Politics Of Community" and "Bakunin:
The Philosophy Of Freedom")
and Adam Buick (Co-Author of "Marxian
Economics and Globalization" and "State Capitalism: The Wages System under
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General Election 2010
The Socialist
Party of Great Britain election platform on which we will be contesting
the forthcoming 2010 General Election. The election blog can be read here and should be regularly updated
Capitalism Must Go
These elections are taking place in the middle of the biggest economic
and financial crisis since the 1930s. In a world that has the potential
to produce enough food, clothes, housing and the other amenities of
life for all, factories are closing down, workers are being laid off,
unemployment is growing, houses are being repossessed and people are
having to tighten their belts. And for once the main parties are being
honest in offering more of the same, competing with each other as to
which of them is going to impose the most “savage cuts”.
Capitalism in relatively "good" times is bad enough, but capitalism in
an economic crisis makes it plain for all to see that it is not a
system geared to meeting people's needs. Read
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The Socialist Party's Summer School is
being held at Fircroft College, Selly Oak, Birmingham, over the long
weekend 23rd - 25th July.
The theme is
'Future Visions' - This year's weekend of talks and discussion looks to
the future. But what kind of future?
The residential
cost (including accommodation and all meals) is £130. The
concessionary rate (for students, unemployed people, pensioners etc.)
is £80. The non-residential cost (including meals) is £50.
If you're
interested in attending, e-mail Mike Foster at spgbschool@yahoo.co.uk .More
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Some previous schools info. 2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
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