Woolas the Anti-racist
Posted on October 20, 2008
Immigration Minister Phil Woolas claims it was his commitment to anti-racism which led him to join the Labour Party when he was in his teens. How strange it is then, that his commitment to anti-racism does not extend to abjuring racist immigration laws. In fact he recently gave an interview in which he stated that the population of the UK should be capped at 70 million, which would mean junking the present, unacceptable, unfair and discriminatory ‘points’ system. His shameless pandering to the right and the politics of fear and hatred, was criticised for ’starting an auction of anti-foreigner rhetoric’, as New Labour and the Tories compete with each other to see which party can present itself as harder on migrants and give the most ‘anti-foreigner soundbites’.
It has been reported that Woolas later ‘backtracked’ on his remarks about an immigration cap, although he only went as far as to saying that EU citizens will be able to come and go freely.
On BBC One’s Politics Show, he said: “I think, frankly, there’s a lot of nonsense talked about the cap…
“The European Union population can come and go just as we from Britain go and live in Spain, perhaps, or France - so, too, can others come to our country.
“So it’s very difficult to see, even if we are in favour of a cap, what it should be.”
But he said: “I’m not saying there could be no limit whatsoever.”
In other words, Fortress Europe, ringed by razor wire and laagers — Whites only thank you.
Meanwhile, winning the prize for the most anti-foreigner soundbite, the extremely slimy Tory Shadow Home Secretary, Dominic Grieve, lost no time in attacking Woolas/New Labour for the ’softness’ of their disgusting immigration policy.
The minister has admitted that behind his words there is no action.
We will do more than give warm interviews. We will introduce an annual limit on non-EU immigration, transitional controls on immigration from new member states, and establish a dedicated UK border police force.
Capitalism Is Working
Posted on October 12, 2008
The banner headline on the latest edition of Socialist Worker, the house organ of Britain’s largest pseudo-socialist sect, highlights their customary threadbare analysis of world events, and their frequent and early resort to semiliterate populist demagoguery.
If capitalism is not working, how do the charlatans and opportunists of the Socialist Workers’ Party explain the expropriation of billions — if not trillions — of euros, pounds and dollars of workers’ money (in taxation and savings) to prop up the fat-cats of casino capitalism? They haven’t even bothered to read Marx:
The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. [...] Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real condition of life and his relations with his kind.
Capitalism has not failed, it is adapting itself, reinventing itself, and working with ever more ruthless efficiency. First capitalists accumulate the product of labour for their own benefit, and now they come back for the little surplus value that is left.
The Golden Age ii
Posted on September 29, 2008
The world’s most self-important neckbeard and nanosect theoretician delivers his verdict on autonomist Marxism:
We have no interaction with, or rivalry with, Principia Dialectica. They are simply not in our part of the political universe and not in the workers’ movement.
Neckbeard and his two friends are the vanguard. Après moi — le tutorial!
Killing the Goose
Posted on September 29, 2008
Scenario:
A wealthy man opens his office safe and removes the title deeds to your house and those of others. He takes them to the casino to use as collateral and loses everything. He then arrives on your doorstep demanding cash from you to make good the loss — or you will be made homeless. Worse, he plans to reward himself handsomely for setting up such a racket.
In the real world, outwith the quasi-religious cult of the ‘invisible hand’, this behaviour is rightly called ‘extortion’. No, it’s socialism! scream worshippers at the altar of the free market myth, the problem is not enough deregulation.
No. It isn’t socialism. Propping up the bosses and ultra-rich with taxpayer-funded handouts is not socialism, it is capitalism. A deal done between different sections of the ruling class using capital expropriated from the workers. Banks have been playing roulette with the lives of ordinary, working people.
In the USA, where Congress has just voted down Bush’s $700 billion ‘bail-out’ plan 228 - 205, any ‘rescue package’ should be contingent on absolute transparency, complete accountability and the immediate introduction of a universal healthcare system.
Markets are entirely self-regulating, bankers assured us as they stuffed money down the fronts of their trousers. Hands on hearts, they swore they would never be so foolish, or greedy, as to kill the goose that laid the golden eggs.
There’s nothing left of the goose, save its beak and feet.
Instead of accepting that the current financial mess is a direct consequence of their limitless greed, in classic ‘blame the victim’ fashion, the right are casting about for suitable scapegoats and have settled upon the very people at whom they threw money — ‘we would never have lent poor people money they couldn’t pay back … except it made us fabulously rich’.
Sublimate banking.
Oppose barbarism
Posted on September 22, 2008
There will be counter demonstration against the preposterous Islamic Republic of Iran sponsored ‘Al Quds Day’ march at Piccadilly Circus, this Sunday 28 September at 1300hrs.’Al Quds Day’ was instituted by the Ayatollah Khomenei, supposedly in support of Palestinians, but in reality to promote the backward and murderous clerical fascist Islamic Republic of Iran and their Lebanese surrogates Hizbollah. It does nothing to help the cause of Palestinian national self-determination. The barbaric Tehran régime brutally supresses all opposition, secular organisations, independent trade unions, and murders socialists, homosexuals and children on trumped up charges which are rubber-stamped by religious kangaroo courts. Iranian president Ahmdedinejad repeatedly denies the fact of the Nazi genocide of the Jews and entertains millenarian fantasies of immanent and transcendent destruction. Concentration of Iran’s wealth in the hands of a tiny minority has left the country desitute.This vile and hardline religious conservative régime should be opposed at every turn.
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