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After the election – the next steps for workers


http://www.cpbml.org.uk/events/after...-steps-workers
CPBML Public Meeting, Thursday 11 June, 7.30pm

Bertrand Russell Room, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL

It was a grim election result, but we don’t have the option of lying down and playing dead for the next five years. The tasks facing British workers remain essentially the same: we are going to have to fight for our survival as a nation and as a class. Only Marxist thinking can help us here. Come and discuss the strategy and tactics of working class renewal. All welcome.

Where is the “Middle Class”?
by imarxman
https://imarxman.wordpress.com/2015/...-middle-class/

Responding to the Labourers’ Allotment Bill (1887), the Liberal politician Sir William Harcourt said, “We are all Socialists now!” This has become a well-used phrase, quoted in the past tense at the time by “The Times”. As a rhetorical flourish it was well crafted, while its actual veracity was, and is, wholly inaccurate.

A hundred and ten years or so later, another politician had adapted Harcourt’s notion to insist that everyone had become middle class. Like Harcourt, Tony Blair was employing misleading rhetoric, misleading because there isn’t a middle class to belong to.
Click on link above for entire article.

http://www.workers.org.uk/pdf/10reasons_May2014.pdf

10
REASONS TO LEAVE THE
EUROPEAN UNION
1 Because we can only survive and prosper
outside the EU. EU trade represents just 20 per
cent of global trade – we can trade with the other 80 per
cent, and still trade with the EU outside it, as do Norway
and Switzerland. They talk about “little Englanders”, but
in truth the “little Europeans” are perverting and
narrowing Britain’s trade and industry.

2 Because the EU is for capitalism, not the
working class. It was set up to enforce “free”
markets – the free movement of capital, labour and goods
– to provide greater and greater profits while suppressing
wages.

3 Because the EU wants to break up Britain. The
EU exists to destroy national sovereignty. Nations
are seen as obstacles to the unfettered rule of global
capitalist markets. The EU wants to dismember nations,
dividing us to leave the field to finance capital.

follow the link above.....

http://www.cpbml.org.uk/news/eu-memb...%80%99s-choice


EU membership: Britain’s choice
BOOK REVIEW
The paper that won the Institute of Economic Affairs’ 2014 Brexit Prize argues that Britain could thrive outside the EU by improving our links with the rest of the world

Top five reasons why Filipino migrant workers call to junk the World Trade Organization

Junk WTO!

Stop the commodification of Filipino migrant workers!

Scrap the labor export policy!

No to modern-day slavery! Migrants of the world, unite!


http://migranteinternational.org/201...migrante-intl/

The above link steers you to the position paper of an organization that wishes the authentic voices of migrant workers to be heard.

5000 workers leave Philippines each and every day. .Labour as a commodity--exported by a venal government as one might send crates of Tuna or Pineapple.

The protesters decried how the Aquino government continues policies which prefer to export labor, rather than create jobs at home, then neglects those who fall into trouble abroad, as highlighted by Mary Jane Veloso plight. - See more at:
http://bulatlat.com/main/2015/05/04/...y-at-the-park/

Radical Politics and General Elections
Just about 100 days before the British general election, Greece saw what is being touted as a radical party of the Left, Syriza, not quite achieving an overall majority. Two or three seats short, Syriza has to go in search of at least one coalition partner, and so the compromising begins.

https://imarxman.wordpress.com/2015/...ral-elections/

The EU's giant and secretive deregulation blitz
LINDA KAUCHER 14 January 2015 all happening so fast
https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkin...gulation-blitz