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The UK’s proposal to send some migrants who arrive in Britain on small boats to Rwanda is a breach of international law, the UN’s refugee agency has said.
The UNHCR called it a “troubling development” and said the UK was seeking to “shift responsibility”.
Weak Bladders of the World Unite, eh, Imposs?
Is it me or do I get a general feeling that the degree of apathy and indifference prevails about this election cycle?
Why not suggest a Q and A article for the Socialist Standard?
I doubt he would do so, believing it might be seen as a partisan endorsement of ourselves.
But try we are the eccentric Impossibilists who want to abolish money and countries and approach. He might be intrigued enough to respond.
Will Ukrainians asylum seekers be sent to Rwanda?
Of course not.
There is now a two-tier refugee system practiced by the UK.
Broken Brexit Pledge
Conservative’s 2019 manifesto promised “at a minimum” to match the average EU subsidy of about £1.5bn a year to help the most deprived parts of the UK.
But details of the government’s Shared Prosperity Fund show that it will hand out only £2.6bn over the next three years and will not match the previous EU funding level of £1.5bn a year until 2025.
A 43% cut in real terms compared with the average annual EU grants of £1.5bn between 2014 and 2020.
I think Martov hoped to establish bourgeois democracy in Russia and establish organs to protect and advance the emergence of the working class, such as the Parliamentary vote.
He held to the stageist interpretation of revolution (first capitalism, then socialism) which Lenin once adhered to before he accepted the Trotskyist permanent revolution.
I am not sure we can call Martov a reformist in a similar context of today as demanding amelioration and palliatives as a political policy. He was advocating something more fundamental
The carbon-cutting promises made at COP26 would see the world warm by just under 2C this century if all the pledges made by countries are implemented “in full and on time”, temperatures would rise by 1.9-2C.
However, there is far grimmer news on the idea of keeping warming under 1.5C. There is just a 6-10% chance of staying under this key threshold.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61095961
A look back at this thread and we see that the pledges are already being broken.
The Ukrainian draft dodgers, reportedly as many as 15,000 to date.
This essay may be useful read
The ‘Right to be Greedy’
https://libcom.org/article/right-be-greedy-theses-practical-necessity-demanding-everything
Some may be interested in Richard Wolff’s take on the war.
https://www.alternet.org/2022/04/role-capitalism-war-in-ukraine/
“…Eventually some compromise will end the Ukraine war. Both sides will likely declare victory and blame the war on the other among propaganda blizzards. The Russian side will stress demilitarization, denazification, and protection of Russians in eastern Ukraine. The Ukraine side will stress freedom, independence, and national self-determination. Meanwhile, the tragedy goes beyond Ukraine’s suffering. The entire world is caught up in the decline of one capitalist empire and the rise of yet another. Conflicts between the capitalist empires can occur anywhere where differences between them flare up…”
