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Isn't this more the responsibility of the Audio Visual Committee. Address here: spgb.av at worldsocialism, etc
Further evidence that ISIS is essentially a gang of marauding bandits under the guise of religion:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3360382/ISIS-extorts-millions-captive-residents-Syria-Iraq-Jihadis-uses-army-tax-collectors-fund-coalition-bombing-targets-oil-fields.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
More on this story — from Ron Paul (despite ISIS supporting his idea of reintroducing gold as the currency):http://sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151214/1031727212/israel-nusra-al-qaeda-medical-assistance-syria.html
mcolome1 wrote:The right wingers in the US are saying that Obama is a Muslim,Apparently the "moderate" Jihadists in Syria also regard Obama as a Muslim but as a Shia one:http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-11-13/syrian-rebels-give-obama-a-bad-name-abu-hussein-
Israel backs Al Qaeda, patching up their killers so they can go back and kill Christians, Shia Muslims, Alawites, Druze and other non-Sunni minorities:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3315347/Watch-heart-pounding-moment-Israeli-commandos-save-Islamic-militants-Syrian-warzone-risking-lives-sworn-enemies.htmlThat real realpolitik for you.
Young Master Smeet wrote:Corbyn in the Times today (paywall) http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/columnists/article4635914.eceThis is just warmed up social democracy of the 19320's, the state promoting microeconomic efficiency, to produce growth. Not only has this been tried before, and failed, but it's clear that this approach cannot eliminate inequality and poverty, which are essential features of the market system. 'Designed markets' sound like a cunning way of getting business onside, but the need for profitability will always trump the designed ends.Very revealing quote you found there. It's Corbyn on how he sees the future (even though it reflects the view of Mariana Mazzucato, one of John McDonnell's economic advisers) and it's not socialism. By a long way. It's not even state capitalism which Labour leftwingers used to be committed to.
Jeremy Corbyn wrote:We want a word where governments shape the rules that promote public goods — where they protect the ultimate public good of a stable climate in which humanity can survive and prosper. To do that, we need a state that invests. We need an entrepreneurial, nimble state that neither wages war with markets nor bows in their presence, but shapes them. It is the rules set out by the state that allows markets to flourish .This means we can shape competitive markets and shape the goods they produce, so that we can all start making the right choices for our future.Socialism is not about "shaping" markets but about abolishing them. This is a quote we can keep on quoting.
The Militant statement complaining about not being allowed to infiltrate Momentum can be found here:http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/articles/21875See how they moan:
Quote:But like classical reformists, who in this period cannot carry through reforms, Corbyn and his team irritate the ruling class who want to get rid of them from the leadership of the party, but also fail to satisfy the demands of working people, particularly young people, for decisive action.This is reflected in Momentum. Tom Watson has used the same terminology that was used in the past against Militant (forerunner of the Socialist Party) and others on the left, that Momentum is a "party within a party" and should be disciplined. What they want is that the right should be organised – as they have made abundantly clear – but the rank and file and the left should not be organised.How does the leadership of Momentum respond to this? They suggest their own form of a witch-hunt – as shown by the disgraceful attacks of the Momentum leadership on Socialist Party members in Waltham Forest, and particularly Nancy Taaffe, for arguing for re-selection and democratisation of the Labour Party They do not seem prepared to discuss and debate these ideas. Momentum nationally has now stated that Socialist Party members and other non-Labour Party members won't be allowed to take part in Momentum decision-making meetings.Poor parasites without a host. But why don't they do what they did last time: join the Labour Party like Workers Power and the AW already have. There must be rich pickings for Trotskyists there. Of course the other section of Militant never left the Labour Party anyway and are now well ensconced in Momentum as well, as the introduction to this article shows.
Just finished reading this book. It's terrible with its relentless Irish Republicanism. Not worth buying, only worth slating in a review.
The first blood on the warmongers' hands?http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/07/syrian-civilians-killed-us-airstrikehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-35031531
Young Master Smeet wrote:myth of the Norman Yolk.Norman Yolk? Is that connected with the myth of Humpty Dumpty?
After bombing a hospital in Afghanistan another example of "accurate" US bombing:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/us-led-coalition-air-strike-targets-syrian-soldiers-in-first-fatal-bombing-on-assad-regime-a6762956.htmlOr dod they really want to help ISIS against the government?
According to Positive Money a referendum will eventually take place in Switzerland on their proposal for banking and monetary reform:http://positivemoney.org/2015/11/swiss-citizens-initiative-collects-105000-signatures-triggers-referendum-on-money-creation/Positive Money believe that banks, as part of the banking system including a central bank, can create money out of nothing by a simple keyboard stroke and propose that this supposed power should be taken away from them and that they be allowed to lend only what has been deposited with them. But, as banks do not have that power and already have to fund what they lend (from borrowing on the money market as well from outside deposits), their proposal is unnecessary. It's aimed at dealing with a non-problem. If enacted it would make it more difficult for banks to fulfil their key role under capitalism of channelling otherwise unused money into business investment. This could slow down the accumulation of capital and so provoke an economic crisis. They believe that their proposal would in fact reduce bank lending and propose to compensate for this by the state printing more money to be invested. But most of this will be over-compensation, resulting in inflation, massive inflation in fact.I don't suppose Swiss voters will fall for this. Not that monetary/banking reform will solve or even alleviate any of the problems workers face under capitalism; if ill-conceived, it could even make matters worse, at least temporarily until it is repealed.
But that interview appeared in ….. the Sunday Times, a key component of "the mainstream UK media" ! Not quite sure why they interviewed him. It could be softening up public opinion to present him as a statesman instead of the butcher he has been portrayed as up to now. Already they are saying he doesn't have to go as a precondition for opening negotiations to try to settle the civil war in Syria.
Interesting article here confirming that ISIS are a gang of parasitic bandits living off the loot they extract from the people they oppress and exploit:http://en.alalam.ir/news/1766394Ok, this comes from the Iranian state media but, then, the UK non-state media is just as biased (without even being instructed to be)
jondwhite wrote:So Corbyn's cognitive dissonance / hypocrisy emerges. On warmongering Labour MPs being subjected to abuse'As we have both said many times, abuse and intimidation have no place in politics. And the party as a whole will not accept such behaviour, from whatever quarter it comes,'but on bombing'Today's Shadow Cabinet agreed to back Jeremy Corbyn's recommendation of a free vote on the Government's proposal to authorise UK bombing in Syria. 'I don't understand what you're getting at. Where is "cognitive dissonance/hypocrisy" in the two positions?
