Left Communist literature will be on sale in Birmingham city centre on Saturday, 4 July, 11.30-12.30pm, outside the Pavillions shopping centre. Make contact there with the street-sellers if you wish to buy copies of Internationalist Perspective, Revolutionary Perspectives and World Revolution. Afterwards, you may wish to go on to the next meeting of the Midlands Discussion Forum in Bennetts Bar, Bennetts Hill (1.30-5.00pm) to discuss the ramifications of the current economic crisis.
Left Communist literature will be on sale in Birmingham city centre on Saturday, 4 July, 11.30-12.30pm, outside the Pavillions shopping centre. Make contact there with the street-sellers if you wish to buy copies of Internationalist Perspective, Revolutionary Perspectives and World Revolution. Afterwards, you may wish to go on to the next meeting of the Midlands Discussion Forum in Bennetts Bar, Bennetts Hill (1.30-5.00pm) to discuss the ramifications of the current economic crisis.
RP 50 is now out. To receive a copy send £3 to our group address (BM CWO, London WC1N 3XX) . Or to receive whilst each is current why not subscribe (£15 UK, £22 elsewhere). It contains the following articles:
Archivio Mauro Stefanini Partito comunista internazionalista — A tool for the history of the Communist Left — PDF
June 10th 2009 Wednesday at 5.00 p.m. — Archivio di Stato di Milano via Senato 10
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Capitalism Has No Future
It is Time for Us to Stop Making Sacrifices
How Can We Fight for a Better World?
In just three months fifty million people worldwide have lost their jobs. In the USA 32.2 million people, or more than ten per cent of the population, are now receiving food stamps (worth $83 or £56 per month). This is not just a crisis about deregulated capitalism but the deepest capitalist crisis since the Second World War. Having exploded in the financial sphere, the knock-on effects for the real economy — which is in fact where the crisis was born — are overwhelming. To discuss these facts and the prospects for humanity we invite all revolutionaries to:
Calthorpe Arms — Grays Inn Road (corner of Wren Street) — London WC1
2:00 p.m. Saturday 27 June 2009
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The economy shrank at its fastest rate for more than 50 years in the first quarter of 2009, with output down 2.4 per cent — much worse than estimated. Output had been estimated to fall to 1.9 per cent, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.
The decline in the first three months of the year equals a 2.4 per cent slump seen in 1974 and is the worst since a 2.6 per cent fall seen in 1958.
The recession also began earlier than expected, with a 0.1 per cent decline seen between April and June last year compared with previous estimates of zero growth.
Following the revision — which also saw a deeper 1.8 per cent decline in the final quarter of 2008 — the UK’s output is now 4.9 per cent below the level seen before the recession.
Thousands of workers across England and Wales have walked out in support of 647 Lindsey oil refinery construction staff sacked for staging unofficial strikes. It comes as Lindsey workers burned dozens of dismissal letters in protest.
Contract workers across Britain are being urged to continue taking wildcat strike action as efforts to resolve a bitter jobs row continue.
Talks aimed at resolving the dispute following the sacking of almost 650 workers at Lindsey oil refinery in North Lincolnshire have been adjourned and will resume on Thursday.
Sources said some progress was made during the talks but there are still “significant barriers”.
Unions are demanding the reinstatement of the sacked workers and guarantees of no victimisation of activists involved in sympathy strikes, as well as jobs for 51 employees laid off at Lindsey earlier this month.
Text messages have been sent to workers urging them to continue taking industrial action, adding: “More is needed to finish this dispute to show we will not take this abuse any longer. All sites must show their support. This fight is far from over, brothers.”
Up to 4,000 workers at power stations and oil and gas terminals across Britain have taken unofficial action.
The public sector is poised to make 350,000 job cuts in the next five years, sparking a “guerrilla war” with unions, the CIPD has predicted.
Speaking ahead of the publication of the Office for National Statistics job figures, which are due out on Wednesday, John Philpott, chief economist and director of public policy at the CIPD, said that the current mood of optimism over the upturn was not yet justified. The main reason is that the burden of public debt means that large-scale public-sector job cuts are inevitable, which will have a knock-on effect throughout the economy, he said.
French oil company Total said on Friday that 1,200 contractors have walked out on unofficial strike over planned redundancies at its British Lindsey refinery.
The British National Party’s leader is set to attend a garden party hosted by the Queen, according to a colleague.
Richard Barnbrook, a BNP member of the London Assembly, said Nick Griffin will accompany him as his guest at the event at Buckingham Palace on July 21.
All members of the Assembly have been invited to the event.
Mr Barnbrook said: “I imagine there will be a to-do and a hoot. These things are going to happen more and more as the party goes forward.”
The number of people out of work soared by almost a quarter of a million in the first three months of this year, figures show.
The rise of 244,000 is the biggest quarterly increase in the jobless total since 1981 and was larger than many analysts had predicted.
It takes the number of people in the UK now looking for work to just over 2.2 million, the worst figure since 1996.
Communications firms are being asked to record all internet contacts between people as part of a modernisation in UK police surveillance tactics.
The home secretary scrapped plans for a database but wants details to be held and organised for security services.
The new system would track all e-mails, phone calls and internet use, including visits to social network sites……..
The number of unemployed in spain has surpassed 4 million in the first quarter of 2009, a negative record in 30 years. As for the preceding quarter, the increase was 802 000 in total. The unemployment rate has reached 17.36%, the highest rate since 1998.
Translated from this site — Il numero dei disoccupati in Spagna ha superato i 4 milioni nel primo trimestre del 2009, un record negativo da 30 anni. Rispetto al trimestre precedente l’aumento è stato di 802mila unità. Il tasso di disoccupazione ha raggiunto il 17,36%, il livello più alto dal 1998.
New figures show that unemployment has soared to its highest level since Labour came to power in 1997.
The number of people looking for work jumped by 177,000 in the three months to February to reach 2.1 million — the biggest quarterly rise since 1991.
The worst total since February 1997, months before Labour won the general election.
The number claiming jobseeker’s allowance increased for the 13th month in a row in March, up by 73,700 to 1.46 million, highest total since September 1997.
Meanwhile economic inactivity, including people on long-term sick leave, those taking early retirement or who have given up looking for work, remained at more than 20% of the workforce at 7.85 million.
Average earnings increased by just 0.1% in the year to February, down by 1.6% from the previous month, while the figure excluding bonuses was down by 0.3% to 3.2%. Both figures were record lows.
The UK now has an unemployment rate of 6.7%, the highest since the summer of 1997.
The number of manufacturing jobs fell by 139,000 in the quarter to February, compared to the previous year, to a record low of 2.75 million.
Job vacancies fell by 68,000 in the quarter to March to a record low of 462,000, while a record 270,000 people were made redundant in the three months to February.
