paula.mcewan
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I found this a difficult video to watch to the end, due to the scribbling pencil which got on my nerves. Was he saying that people who work on automatic tasks (eg factory workers) work harder if they get a cash reward, but people who have to think at work (professionals?) don’t work harder if given a cash reward? If so, perhaps it’s because the ‘professionals’ already earn enough to take it easy at work whereas manual workers need to keep striving due to poor incomes.
Paula
(without moderator hat on)I saw this film at the weekend and would recommend it to anyone who likes a good film. Being directed by Martin Scorcese, it was a bit like a gangster film but the gangsters here are white Texans not Italian mafiosi. The musical score was outstanding as with all Scorcese’s films as was the acting even though Leo De Caprio was a bit miscast due to his age (but not his acting). De Niro was De Niro at his best – jovial and likeable but underneath the veneer a sinister psychopath (the capitalist class personified). Lily Gladstone was outstanding as the Native American who understood the inevitability of white supremacy. I particularly liked that Native Americans had agency in this story and weren’t cast as helpless victims. I would recommend this film – due to the acting, score, story, political context – all excellent, as long as you have 3 and a half hours to spare, which I was privileged to have.
Keir Starmer busily proving that he is fit to be next Prime Minister by ignoring human rights and acting in the interests of capital. Many Labour Party members including MPs in despair of their party’s position, with the rest of them busily swallowing the nonsense that the Labour Party stands up for the interests of the working class.
Good for you ALB for taking the time to go to a Stop the War meeting and trying to engage. Personally I don’t have the time – time being my most valuable commodity- to engage with the left wing. The left persists in its belief that if we join a demonstration it will achieve something. That said however, it would warm my heart if the whole world joined a demonstration against war. And signed the papers that said “We’ll never fight again”.
I think we need to be very careful of suggesting that someone posting here is being anti-Semitic, when they are actually being anti-Zionist.
Our statement hasn’t been updated since October 30 which is a long time ago now given the pace of events.
For those not on spintcom (link doesn’t work ALB) our latest statement is:
“What with the ongoing horrors in Gaza, the seemingly endless Ukraine-Russia war, the thousands of people fleeing conflict and extreme deprivation to seek refuge in safer places, and the relentless rise of global temperature, it is tempting to despair of finding any solution to the world’s problems. It’s important to remember, however, that there is a solution – to dismantle the system that is the root cause of all of these problems – capitalism – and replace it with a humane society that does not have money or borders – socialism.
A moneyless, non-market, democratically run society of ownership and collective production would eliminate war and poverty, and allow us to concentrate common on limiting the environmental damage caused by modern industry.”
Personally I think we could delete the second half of the last paragraph after “poverty” and replace it with words that say we oppose the genocide occurring in plain view.
Doctors in Gaza have described amputations and Caesarean births without anaesthetic. The population of Gaza are now living in conditions worse than prehistoric times. My personal view is that our leaflet should be a cry of outrage.
Paula
I’m not a moderator but what about this https://youtu.be/eL_9ELVeuCQ?si=fPiVaF_-TEei7gN6
Ha I remember this one thank you Robbo. It reminds me of a primary school teacher called Miss Burnham who encouraged me to write. https://youtu.be/-Cjk0zst3Cs?si=vjceSPsNavqd0nia
I do enjoy a rebel song https://youtu.be/vsb4tIhOyZQ?si=HMlg5sC-p7SVaZl8
Nb Not in moderator capacity
