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ireland / britain / miscellaneous Saturday March 03, 2012 - 00:54 by andrew 1 image
Ireland is to have a referendum after all on the EU austerity treaty and a lot of the left is getting unreasonably excited about this. I say unreasonably because my opinion is that the referendum will not really, as the likes of the ULA claim, be a meaningful ballot on austerity. Austerity is not something simply being imposed on us by Europe through this referendum but something our domestic ruling class are already imposing and have been for a few years. Of course they have used the ECB/IMF as the 'bad cop' to scare us with and when passed will use the EU austerity treaty in the same way. But we need to recognize and organize around the fact that our local politicians and capitalist class are not really a 'good cop' eager to help us avoid the attentions of the 'bad cop' making threatening gestures at us across the room. ... read full story / add a comment
brazil/guyana/suriname/fguiana / community struggles Friday March 02, 2012 - 20:25 by Bruno Lima Rocha 1 image
Protestos contra aumento da passagem ocorrem há mais de dez anos em Porto Alegre. Estudantes questionam alto valor da passagem em um serviço que deveria ser público. ... read full story / add a comment
southern africa / economy Friday March 02, 2012 - 03:01 by Shawn Hattingh 1 image
Once again much media fanfare has broken out in aftermath of the South African state’s budget speech. The budget, however, is yet more proof of the ANC’s ruling class agenda: free markets, budget cuts for the poor and subsidies for the rich. From the budget and other utterances it is clear the ANC has, despite media hysteria, no interest in nationalisation. The state will, therefore, try and deal with the global economic crisis largely through business-as-usual. [Italiano] ... read full story / add a comment |
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