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Piper-Alpha
The explosion and fire aboard the
Piper Alpha platform on 6 July was wait-ing to happen. The revelations
and admissions that followed within a few days of the disaster make
that clear. The only surprise should be that it hadn't happened sooner..More.
by Brian Gardner Also as PDF >
NATIONALISTS
BELIEVE
THAT
ALL
CLASSES
IN
SOCIETY
should
hold
allegiance
to
"The
Nation".
Socialists
do
not
and
point
out
how
nations
have
always
been
the
creation
of a ruling group
having nothing to do with working-class interests.
What is a nation? It is simply the people and the territory which
have been appropriated by a class of robbers at some point in history.
It has less to do with a common language, religion, race, culture, and
all the other things which nationalists imagine or pretend are
essential ingredients in the making of nations...More
The incredible hotchpotch of ideas contained in the new organisation
soon became a cause for alarm among the more sensible members and drove
one, Lewis Spence, to complain that the party was… a maelstrom boiling
and bubbling with the cross- currents of rival and frequently fantastic
theories, schemes and. notions we have people who wanted all Scotland
to speak the Gaelic….
some hark back to the hope of a sixteenth-century Scotland regained
still others a Jacobite
restoration. A certain group sees in the expulsion of all the English
and Irish in- Scotland the country's only chance of survival . All is
hubbub, outcry, chaos. There is no plan,...More
The Kier
Hardie myth
The myth
about Keir Hardie's attitude to war
is very persistent. At an anti-Polaris rally in Glasgow last December,
the Co-operative Movement representative had only to refer to him, ". .
. if we could get Keir Hardie here. . ." to have his words drowned by
applause. Whatever the sentiments of the audience may have been, it was
certainly in error about Hardie's attitude to war....More
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World population
by Brian Gardner
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Dumped fruit:
surplus to MARKET
requirements.
Whilst millions starve. |
. . . if the human population of our planet
were to continue to expand at the doubling time of 35 years then within
a period no longer than that of recorded history the entire substance
of the universe would be converted to human tissue and the diameter of
the resulting human mass would be expanding at the speed of light.
(Dr
Paul
Ehrlich,
quoted
in
the Guardian)
Many figures and doomsday predictions like the above have been
cited to express the urgency of the "problem" of population growth.
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Socialism means
One World by LEW
Just as capitalism is a world system of society, so too must socialism
be. There never has been, and never can be, socialism in just one
country because its material basis is the world-wide and interdependent
means of production that capitalism has built up. The bulk of the
wealth produced in the world today is produced by the co-operative
labour of the millions employed to operate these means of production.
What is needed now, to establish socialism, is a conscious political
decision on the part of these millions across the world to run society
in their own interests...More
Shorter hours or short-time ?
A major shift away from
the UK's long working hours culture was "inevitable", according to a
new report which called for a radical rethink of arrangements.View
Below is what we said in an article from 30 years ago.
A shorter working week? by
ALB (PDF)
Socialist Standard June 1980
In March last year one of the French trade union confederations, the
CFDT, organised a forum of European trade union leaders in Paris to
launch its
campaign for a "general reduction of the working week to 35 hours in
order to create jobs". Albert Mercier, one of its national Secretaries,
was reported as saying that "work-sharing through a reduction in
working time was clearly one of the keys to solving the current
employment problems" (European Communities Trade Union Information,
No.3/1979)...More
Redundant
managers by Vic Vanni (PDF)
From Socialist Standard June 1981
Unemployment has particularly hit workers in manufacturing,
shipbuilding, textiles and construction, but another section of the
working class whose jobs have generally been protected until now has
also suffered. This is the "executives", those workers who are employed
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Who
owns
the
land
Under
the
Sea? by
A McNeil
“Carry
on Conferring” may sound like the latest title in a series of
third-rate comedy films but in fact this particular farce is anything-
but funny, at least not to the participants who have gathered in,
Geneva in an attempt to arrive at some common ground -for the
establishment of clearly defined and governable laws on the question:
who owns the land under the sea?..More
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Class
Class
struggle, ancient and modern
What
class are you then?
Crime, legal and illegal by Andrew Armitage
Language, class and nation by P.B.Also as PDF
Greedy
bastards by Richard Montague
The Left
Leninspeak
by Vic Vanni
The best way to oppose fascism by Vic Vanni
Nomenclatura
Russia's capitalists by Vic Vanni also PDF
Woody Guthrie by Andrew Armitage
Tilting at windmills with a banjo
by Andrew Armitage
Fake Socialism
Debate
Did
Trotsky
Point
The
Way
To
Socialism
?
Reformism
The
struggle for even more reforms is irrelevant and only gets in the way.
The case against reforms by Vic Vanni.
Slowly
Does It
The case for reforms by Steve Colman
Resources
How many
die of famine?
What
causes
famines?
Economics
The poverty of economics
by
B.Gardner
The
ABC
of
Inflation
‘MILITANT’ Confusion about inflation’
by
Adam Buick
Rates,
Taxes
&
the
Working
Class by RAHB
Price
On
Lives by
Brian Gardner Also PDF
Rent
Theory
of Rent Part one (PDF)
by J.D.
Theory of Rent Part
two
(PDF))
by J.D.
Competition
The
Free Market by Vic
Vanni
Does capitalism work? by Vic.
Vanni
Insiders
and
Others by Vic Vanni
Real life monopoly by R.D.
Ice Cream
Man Cometh by B.G. HTML As
PDF
Banks
Banks
and Credit by JD
Do
Banks Produce Wealth? by
J.D.
Banks
-
Who
needs
them? by S.C.
Stock Exchange
The
big
bang by Brian Gardner As PDF
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